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:
We learn a bit about the delayed Soyuz launch, as well as the proximal cause of the Amos-6 explosion.
JMARS is a geological information system that started on the Red Planet and has since moved to encompass other bodies. It's used internationally by mission planners, scientists and others. Also, MCT announcement is coming up and New Glenn was revealed!
The Dawn spacecraft has set all kinds of records, and is a marvelously well designed vehicle. We got to have a nice long chat with Dr. Marc Rayman, the chief engineer. Also, we have a short AMOS-6 followup.
We pair up with Spacepod to talk about the upcoming Lightsail-2 mission with Dr. Bruce Betts. Also, AMOS-6 now looks like a bundle of Christmas lights, and Gaofen-10 isn't looking much better.
STEREO-B may well be recoverable, China's 2020 Mars rover, and lots of good corrections from a NASA ADCO.
You know Copenhagen Suborbitals, right? We talk to Mads Wilson about the Nexø successful failure. Also, a Crew Dragon parachute drop test, a successful EVA and the important difference between delta V and propellant mass fraction.
Yutu might one day be useful again, a Raptor engine is ready for testing, and Cygnus' RTF gets delayed.
MUOS V gets left in the parking lot, Tethers Unlimited sells some water rockets, John Aaron is a steely-eyed missile man, and we apologize to Dreamchaser's skid.
Alessondra Springmann is a graduate student that helped prepare for Osiris-Rex' upcoming mission, and she just got a chance to see it in person! Also, Lego NASA heroes, a Commercial Crew update, Copenhagen Suborbitals, Dream Chaser and some static burns!
Copenhagen Suborbital stays solidly suborbital, Astro-H might get a replacement, and SSL works on a GSO servicing bot.
We prepare for another Falcon 9 RTLS landing by talking to Dave Huntsman, a flight controller for Skylab and commercial space proponent. This is not an interview you want to miss!
Juno gets to Jupiter and Curiosity goes into safe mode.
Progress tests an updated docking computer, Dawn won't leave Ceres and Blue Origin begins construction.
Orion gets hit with another delay, SpaceX gets hit with an exorbitant fee, and ESA gets hit with... well, you know.
The Saffire experiment publishes video quickly, Blue Origin lets us peek in on their most recent experiment and boy does Ben get fired up about SpaceX conspiracy theories.
