The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— ISS’s crew of ten (spacepolicyonline.com) (spacenews.com)— Rocket Lab to test booster recovery from space this May (rocketlabusa.com)— Two new Chinese spaceports planned (spacenews.com)— End-to-end testing of Lunar Gateway SEP system completed (americaspace.com)Short & Sweet— Space startup Phase Four wins government contract (spacenews.com)— Biden administration asks for 6.3% increase to NASA’s budget (spacepolicyonline.com)— JWST packs its sunshield in preparation for October launch (satnews.com)— Ingenuity Flight 1 delayed (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Ben Hallert via Discord: Spacelab isn’t Skylab.— From the intro: no more fairing catching (twitter.com/Erdayastronaut) (spacexfleet.com)This week in SF history— April 15, 2005: DART Collides with MUBLCOM (nasa.gov) (en.wikipedia.org) — DART stands for Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology — MUBLCOM stands for Multiple Paths, Beyond-Line-of-Sight Communications— Next week (4/20 - 4/26) in 1997: Reduce