The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— Starship SN9 update (spacenews.com) — Lots of leftover LOX visible on IR footage (youtube.com) — SN8’s FAA violation (spacenews.com)— Firefly wins CLPS contract (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) — They will be flying the Blue Ghost lander and a number of science payloads (firefly.com) — Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) (Image at parabolicarc.com) — Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) (hou.usra.edu) — Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity (LISTER) (today.ttu.edu) — Lunar PlanetVac (LPV) (parabolicarc.com) — Blue Ghost Payload User’s Guide (firefly.com) — Space Utility Vehicle will be the service module/kick stage to get BG to the moon (firefly.com)Short & Sweet— Dragon breaks a record (americaspace.com)— Nanoracks’ Bishop airlock powers on (houstonchronicle.com)— OSIRIS-REx to return home (americaspace.com)Questions, comments, corrections— From the intro: Koenigsmann retiring (HT Colin: cnbc.com)— Game night!