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:
Scott Wray trains astronauts and flight controllers to perform and support EVAs. Yes, that's pretty much as cool as you can get. Also, JWST, a handful of short-and-sweet news items and a double handful of comments and corrections!
It's a short show this week. We talk about a Linux nerd in space, China's new cargo vehicle, and some tidbits from a listener going through our archives.
In a rocket building competition, you can only back one team, and we made our choice. Also, 3D printed combustion chambers and on-orbit window replacements!
This week we had a few crossed wires, and Jake Robins from the We Martians podcast got dumped into our recording session! We talk about Viking, SLS, Blue Moon and Red Dragon! A very Martian show!
Zero 2 Infinity is going to orbit in a very unusual way. Also, SES-10 goes boldly where it's gone before, and Scott Wray talks to us about a recent Space Hack!
Niall is an anonymous Wikipedia editor who has done a lot of work on SpaceX articles. We talk to him about seeing SpaceX develop over the years as well as Wikipedia and emergent processes in general. Also, US astros do an EVA, SpaceX does a robot and X-37B does a record breaking.
A whacky rocket idea and an expended rocket.
Lots of voices on our [arbitrary base 10 milestone] episode! Orbital ATK has a blast from the past, New Glenn has six blasts planned in the future and Proton will provide a slightly larger volume blast! Also a killer sponsor and a jaw-dropping giveaway.
SpaceX wants to put people around the Moon again, but it's gonna be tough. China built a new rocket, and MAVEN is lighter on its toes than you might expect.
Sea Launch is in the news for perhaps the last time, Dragon hits the racetrack and RS-25 prepares for it a new lease on life.
Atec Inc. was contracted to manufacture and assemble parts used on the most recent two EVAs on ISS. Ben Wilking was the project manager, and we get to talk to him about hand-squeezing rivets that go into space.
Tornadoes, kites, airlocks and rocket rumors.
We finally got VAXHeadroom on the show! Emory is a spacecraft designer for Northrop-Grumman. While he normally designs software, he's also the author of the world's only reaction sphere control theory. Also, SpaceX has a new launch pad almost ready to go.
AMARCS is an additive manufacturing project from UC Boulder, and we get a chance to talk to the professor running the project as well as the student project manager. Also, another Proton failure is spotted early, and Boeing shows off their new flight suit!
Chris Hofmann is a rocket wrangler for Masten Space, and we have a great conversation with him about what it takes to test and maintain rockets every day. Also, an extended mission for BEAM, European GPS satellites are losing track of time and we find out what happened to Progress in December.
