The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight News— ABL static fire (spacenews.com)— Rocket Factory Augsburg static fire (rfa.space)— Superheavy FOOMPF (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) — Post-fire images/video show apparent sheet metal blow-outs (twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) — New, possibly replacement, engines arrived at the pad (twitter.com/NicAnsuini) — Going forward, SPX won’t be doing simultaneous spin-starts (twitter.com/elonmusk)— Ariane 6 ground support equipment (esa.int) (spacedaily.com)Short & Sweet— New robotic arm for ISS (spacenews.com)— Rogozin moves on (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (meduza.io)— CAPSTONE completes second TCM (advancedspace.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Dennis: Parmitano’s leak was caused by tap water (youtube.com)— From the intro: JWST beauty shots (flickr.com) (PDF HT MMC: stsci.edu) (HT MMC: youtube.com/jwstobserver)This Week in Spaceflight History— 24 July, 1992. Launch of the Geotail spacecraft (PDF: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com VIA ​​wiley.com) (jaxa.jp) (eoportal.org) — The u