The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight News— Starship, destroyer of concrete (youtube.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/landru79) (HT Iain from MaxQ: twitter.com/unrocket) (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Launch tower footage (HT Astro: reddit.com/r/space) — Liftoff footage (note debris impacting water) (twitter.com/SpaceX) — High speed footage from Tim Dodd x Consider Cosmos (twitter.com/Erdayastronaut) — Aborted launch attempt at the beginning of the week (spacenews.com) — Listener Sam spotted eight engines out, not six (discord.com) — Leaked (?) final frame before termination (discord.com) — NWS spotted the launch (twitter.com/NWSBrownsville) — “Aspiring” to have no diverter as of 2020 (twitter.com/elonmusk) — NSF forums user speaks about the loss of pad experts (HT Sam: forum.nasaspaceflight.com) — Canaveral Starship infrastructure also lacks flame diverter (twitter.com/Cosmic_Andrew1)Short & Sweet— Swedish astronaut may fly on Axiom mission to ISS (spacenews.com)— Rocket Lab to reuse fl