The Orbital Mechanics Podcast show

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 166: Chee or Kee? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:33:52

A single-instrument exoplanet telescope is preparing to launch, and a multi-use launch system is hoping to get there too.

 Episode 165: Red Foam | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:32:44

LauncherOne readies for orbit while Momo-2 nopes out of a flight.

 Episode 164: Bye Bye Block 4 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:00

NASA is looking for a power and propulsion module for their mythical cis-Lunar space station.

 Episode 163: The Storm Looms | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:26:24

Opportunity is digging in, and so are we.

 Episode 162: Regolith Nap | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:30:46

NASA isn't grabbing ISS and heading to the nearest yard sale, SpaceX is expanding at KSC and *yikes* Opportunity is doing a Mark Watney impression.

 Episode 161: DOWNLINK--TU Delft DARE | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:06:51

A team of engineering students at TU Delft are fighting to reclaim their rocketry altitude record.

 Episode 160: DOWNLINK--Eric Blood | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03:25

Eric Blood worked on the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator, which does have a ballute, but not where we thought.

 Episode 159: DOWNLINK--Dr. Dmitry Savransky | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:10:55

I’m supposed to put an episode description here, but I’m just going to say “Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms” and leave it at that.

 Episode 158: Version F | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:35:34

SpaceX flew their first Falcon 9 v6! Or, no, wait, Falcon 9 Block VI. No, wait, Falcon 9 Block 5.

 Episode 157: Sunset Parafoil | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:43

We discussed several topics, but I'm still just taken by that fairing recovery photo.

 Episode 156: Cracked and Canceled | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:31:47

Mars 2020 needs a new heat shield, and the lunar Resource Prospector instruments need a new platform!

 Episode 155: Party Balloon | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:31:26

Elon Musk reveals a potential second stage reuse strategy, and Orbital ATK gives a new name to NGLS

 Episode 154: DOWNLINK--Tess Caswell | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:12:13

Tess Caswell has done a lot of things, but today we're talking to her about her time sitting at the ETHOS desk in ISS MCC, controlling the life support systems on Station.

 Episode 153: Falling with Style | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:35:11

We discuss Falcon 9 fairings falling out of the skies, the return of SpaceShipTwo to the skies, and a new launch company hoping to make it to the skies.

 Episode 152: Waiting for Tiangong I | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:33:27

Back before Tiangong I came crashing down, we passed the waiting time talking about other large uncontrolled objects that have re-entered, NOAA's camerashyness, and Blue Origin's new/old engine selection.

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