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
- Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Podcasts:
Insight is slowly getting closer to a successful mole deployment, and Starhopper showed off its stuff!
Why have a structure with a heat shield on top, when you could just make a structure that does both jobs?
Linkspace successfully hovers, Exomars struggles with parachutes, and Vector Launch closes its doors.
Ella Atkins is an aerospace engineering professor who has a rich history studying and designing automated systems in space and in the air.
A GOES malfunction has now been explained. We're gearing up to hear more about Starship. OneWeb is opening its doors, and EDRS is performing well.
Northrop Grumman got a sole source contract to build a habitat module for the lunar gateway station.
The Apollo Guidance Computer is famous, but the code it ran likely would have slipped into the fog of history if it wasn't for Ron Burkey's archives.
India's headed to the Moon, though their launch was delayed after we recorded this episode.
Orion successfully abort, three Starlinks don't wake up, Exomars and DSCOVR get a little crash-y.
Falcon Heavy had a TVC failure that resulted in the loss of another center core, but they finally caught a fairing. Also, Mars 2020 needs your help!
While we wait out a slow news week, we look to the future and summarize upcoming non-Earth science missions.
Are you ready to visit the asteroid belt's metallic tooth? We sure are!
Spitzer is being retired at long last. Also, a commercial ISS, an HP3 troubleshooting idea, and a launch from sea.
We're welcoming back Laura Forczyk and answering common career questions from Reddit!
60 Starlink satellites down, thousands to go. Also, Hayabusa2 aborts a deployment, students reach space, and OSIRIS-REx needs your help!
