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:
Photos of a Spaceship being constructed in Florida emerged, as did a Beresheet-shaped splat on the Moon.
Old news about a parachute failure, and new predictions about a feather on the Moon.
Brazil has a long history of reaching out of our atmosphere. Today we talk about the triumphs, failures, and even a conspiracy theory of Brazilian Space.
We're excited about Europa Clipper, even though one of its instruments just got a downgrade.
Keri Bean not only worked on Opportunity during its operation, but was on the recovery team that tried to save it.
Beresheet, after becoming the first commercial vehicle to orbit the moon, suffered a chain of failures that resulted in its gasification.
As the UCF Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition team works their way up the technology tree, they've now developed a hybrid rocket engine.
It takes twelve working hours to prep an EMU for a spacewalk.
Professor Hamden is building a space telescope, and talks to us about what it takes to design a spacecraft.
SLS flying has never been a guarantee, but now thoughts are now being given to putting Orion on commercial launchers.
AI is prevalent in the modern day, and it's time to apply it to space exploration.
Crew Dragon made it to orbit and we made it to episode 200!
Are your rocket propellants mixing and not igniting? Maybe you should try hypergolics!
We say goodbye to Opportunity, the superlative-ridden Rover That Could.
When one material just won't do the job, try mixing two together.
