The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Episode 511: LOS

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Episode 510.2: Abort Abort Abort

Well, after last week's short episode, I suspect that a lot of you anticipated this short episode would be coming out. I'm going to use some language that David, Dennis,

Episode 510.1: Hold hold hold

Weird, short episode here, but it still feels weird to not start the show by saying “and I’m Ben.” So, we’ve had a personal emergency here on the crew. All three of us a

Episode 510: Leakspin

Spaceflight News — Starship Block 2: 0 for 3 (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) — Block 3 Update (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet — Xodiac flies final time (arstechnica

Episode 509: Hungry Hopping Hippos

Spaceflight News — Neutron update (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — China announces mission to Venus (ieee.org) Tianhe to be expanded (spacenews.com) This Week in Spac

Episode 508: North of Antarctica

Spaceflight News — Firefly Nozzle Anomaly (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) Short & Sweet — Efforts continue to rescue Lunar Trailblazer (spacenews.com) — ISS avoids spac

Episode 507: Prolate Marshmallow

Spaceflight News — Sierra Space impact test (asdnews.com) — Atmos reentry test of PHOENIX-1 (spacenews.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet — Kosmos 482’s deo

Episode 506: ISS at Risk

Spaceflight News — The Riskiest Period of ISS’ Existence (spacenews.com) — Enginefest — Latitude (europeanspaceflight.com) — Pangea Aerospace (europeanspaceflight.c

Episode 505: Confirming Isaacman

Spaceflight News — Confirming Isaacman (spacenews.com) (law.cornell.edu) (aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org) — One of the Lunar Terrain Vehicles unveiled (lunaroutpost.com) Sh

Episode 504: Mark Soyuzworth

Spaceflight News — Two more PAMs (spacenews.com) (sam.gov) Short & Sweet — Fram2 launches and lands (arstechnica.com) (space.com) — SpinLaunch turns to broadband (spa

Episode 503: DOWNLINK -- Joseph Marlin

Spaceflight News — Security Space (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) Interview -- Joseph Marlin, Deputy Chief Engineer, Blue Ghost Lunar Program — linkedin.com/in/josep

Episode 502: Still Sticking

Spaceflight News — Still sticking with Starliner (spacenews.com) (aviationweek.com) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — Starlab starts new phase (space.com) Questions, Co

Episode 501: MSR China

Spaceflight News — China’s Mars Sample Return open to International Cooperation (cgtn.com) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — Several Russian sats on the move (sattrackca

Episode 500: Quincentennial

Spaceflight News — IM-2 lunar landing (intuitivemachines.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (intuitivemachines.com) (youtube.com) Short & Sweet

Episode 499: Wicked Shimmy

Spaceflight News — Starship TF7 bounced to pieces (Paywall: aviationweek.com) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — Two payloads on IM-2 launch suffering problems on-orbit (

Episode 498: Decimation

Spaceflight News — Stoke Space reveals Andromeda 2 (stokespace.com) Short & Sweet — Long March 8A completes first flight (spacenews.com) — Germany provides funds for

Episode 497: Frustrating Frustum

Spaceflight News — The most amazing little rocket that will have ever built (spacenews.com) (aas.org) (aas.org) (aas.org) (PDF: hou.usra.edu) Short & Sweet — Starbase

Episode 496: Next-Gen Corner Cube

Spaceflight News — Blue Ghost M1 (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (fireflyspace.com) (gsfc.nasa.gov) (baas.aas.org) (hou.usra.edu)  Short & Sweet — Starliner i

Episode 495: NICER than orange slices

Spaceflight News — NICER repair on EVA 91 (nasaspaceflight.com) (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (science.nasa.gov) (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov) Short & Sweet — ESA

Episode 494: Debris Cross-Range

Spaceflight News — Starship FT-7 (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (bsky.app/profile/derekdotspace.bsky.social) (space.com) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — ISRO su