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:
RocketStar is carrying suborbital payloads on a test flight. Come learn with us about aerospikes, regolith simulation, and embedded security.
Booster 7, Starship 24 work through static fire campaigns. Also deadly space weather, an HLS skeleton, and Starliner 2023.
Benchmark Space Systems is developing a variety of propulsion technologies, and grouping them together to form hybrid systems.
A quick look forward to Artemis I, a space squall, a domestic retro-retrofit, and a an upper stage failure.
Astra redirects its focus to Rocket 4. Also, Russia spies on a satellite, Russia clarifies its ISS exit timeline, and a possible Chinese spaceplane.
A new Mars Sample Return architecture has been proposed! Also, a multi-orbit merger, bankruptcy for a favorite, data from OSIRIS-REx, an SLS contract.
COPVs are old news. Learn with us about how Infinite Composites is making linerless composite pressure vessels!
It's a test fest for ABL, RFA, Superheavy and Vega C. JWST saw, Rogozin calls "scene," and a new robotic arm at ISS.
CAPSTONE comms flickered, but it successfully completed TCM-1A and skipped 1B. Also, a Minotaur exploded, X-37B broke a record, and a Starship update.
CAPSTONE's mission to the moon is off with a bang! Also, a Bangor launch complex, a banged-up wind sensor, and two contracts banged out.
SLS has completed its WDR campaign! Also, Psyche was delayed, nuclear power contracts, and Starlink/5G interference.
Lucy's straightening her wings! Also, Star(liner) fliers, Cygnus dodging, and Firefly role changes.
A Cargo Dragon leaked and Ingenuity's still plugging along. Also, a Korean rocket in Brazil, a NASA rocket in Australia, and a rock in JWST.
NASA arranges to rent some space suits. Also, a hibernating helicopter, anticipating color JWST images, and OMG SLS WDR ASAP.
Hybrid rockets have never gone to orbit, and Vaya wants to change that. Learn with us about pyrolysis, plastic propellant, and horizontal 3D printing!
