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:
Orbital ATK readies another launch vehicle, Dextre is big, and Dan Leone really knows how to use a quaint old tool called "reporting."
Ben stumps everyone for a second week in This Week in Spaceflight History. More info on SpaceX' most recent ASDS landing, More info on ASTRO-H, and Antares returns to the ring.
BEAM looks beautiful, live landing footage from SpaceX and oh, those damned squirrels. Also: book club!
Orbital fireworks, an asteroid visit approaches, a Mars orbital science station and a re-flyable F9 first stage.
OTV-4 remains strange and mysterious, ISS is attacked by a rogue, malevolent paint chip, and we take a trip back in history to talk about Skylab 2
Doug Litteken is a NASA engineer who is helping to design lightweight constructions. What did we get wrong about BEAM? Let's find out! Also it's another week full of SpaceX news.
It's a nearly SPX-exclusive week. We had big news announced: Red Dragon is going to Mars and Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful rocket on the planet.
A group of students and citizens has their eye on a homebrew LEO ascent vehicle. We also talk to the developer of FlightClub.io, and perform some fantastic correction burns.
Bigelow has big plans, Rocketlab has a tiny rocket, and Hitomi is covering a larger volume than previously.
The Lunar Lion team arose from the Google Lunar XPrize, and is a group of students headed for the Moon! Also Breeze-M's fate is less clear now than ever, and SpaceX did a thing!
Ben is away but John Leeman of Don't Panic Geocast fills in. We discuss "green" propellent, New Shepard's third flight, and Justin Cowart also pops in to explain ASTRO-H.
Jon Goff is a space entrepreneur, space writer and rocket engineer. He's worked for new space companies and even founded one of his own. Also, Atlas strong and Breeze-M explode.
We're looking forward to CRS-8, we learned a bit more about Kopra's helmetwater and we refuse to cover SAFFIRE (yet!)
InSight is going to mars! Also, Aerojet Rocketdyne tests a new injector, BE-4 takes a trial run, and Soyuz goes squirrly.
SES-9 finally gets off the ground, and we talk with Ben Brockert about what took so long.
