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The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Summary: Every week we cover the latest spaceflight news, discuss past, current and future exploration efforts, and take a look at upcoming events. Tune in to hear about how humans get to space, how they stay in space and how unmanned craft reach farther and farther into the universe around us.

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  • Artist: David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
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Podcasts:

 Episode 241: Clock Kerfuffle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:45:52

Space software engineer and friend of the show Emory Stagmer joins us to discuss CST-100 Starliner's recent failure to rendezvous with ISS.

 Episode 240: Nightingale | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:27:51

OSIRIS-Rex has set its sights on a crater called Nightingale, and will be headed down to grab some rocks from the surface of Asteroid Bennu in a year.

 Episode 239: DOWNLINK--Kyla Edison | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:14:49

Kyla Edison is a geologist working for PISCES, and she's sintering basalt into structural tiles for applications on Earth and off-world ISRU.

 Episode 238: Moon Prep | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:30:56

SLS and Orion are making progress towards Artemis!

 Episode 237: DOWNLINK--Elena Zorzoli Rossi | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:23:50

We met Elena at IAC 2019. She's the lead experimental engineer at ThrustMe, and has been testing their new solid fuel electric propulsion engine!

 Episode 236: Panel jettison | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:43:18

This week we saw the beginning of a long series of EVAs to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which was not intended to be repaired on orbit.

 Episode 235: DOWNLINK--Andrew Rader | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:07:39

Andrew Rader is a mission manager at SpaceX, a game designer, a podcaster, and the author of many books, including his newest: Beyond the Known.

 Episode 234: Irregular Nomenclature | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:40:57

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' H3 rocket will be a lunar powerhouse; we talk about newly released information about the rocket and JAXA's moon plans.

 Episode 233: IAC DC, 2019 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:36:43

Bit of a weird show this week! No news, tired hosts. We talk about our favorite things from this year’s International Astronautical Congress, and we promise more information later.

 Episode 232: Full Panic Ensued | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:40:41

Commercial Crew has fallen behind, but SpaceX is rushing to get Crew Dragon out the door.

 Episode 231: Fewer gyros, more problems | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:29:13

DSCOVR's safehold seems to be connected to a gryo, but there's a fix coming down the line.

  Episode 230: Starship InSight | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:41:44

Starship, headed to Mars one day, got shown off to the public. Insight, already on Mars, learned some interesting things about the magnetosphere.

 Episode 229: Somewhat Rectilinear | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:43:01

NASA wants to put a cubesat in a near-rectilinear halo orbit. Also, lots of updates on private space launch facilities.

 Episode 228: Fired up | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:33:55

H-IIB had a literal fire lit under its butt, and more info about Bigelow's expandable space stations.

 Episode 227: Successful Orbiter | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:33:52

Chandrayaan-2's lander made it to the surface a little sooner than planned. Also, more Hayabusa2 news and WFIRST inches towards reality.

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