The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

This week in SF history— 22 June 1978. Discovery of Pluto’s moon Charon by John Christy (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Psyche review/preview (spacenews.com) — Just passed Key Decision Point C (PDF: nasa.gov) — Multispectral Imager is based on MSL’s Mastcam, MAHLI, and MARDI (hou.usra.edu) — Deep space laser communication demo (wikipedia.org)Short & Sweet— India’s Chandrayaan-2 has launch date (theprint.in)— India has plans for its own space station. (parabolicarc.com)— SOFIA improvements (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Valentin Frank: follow up on Tereshkova’s head injury— /u/MomoSapiensAD: Herschel mission time correction (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)— Apollo / Mariner / Viking / Voyager oral history (twitter.com/jccwrt)— Support the Rocket Cat fund! (gofundme.com)