The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news

— Loverro quit! (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (arstechnica.com) (washingtonpost.com)

— Crew Dragon launch prep (HT Andrew Z: nasaspaceflight.com) (planetary.org) (americaspace.com)

— Commercial crew is an amazing deal. (planetary.org)

— NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future to air May 25 at 9 p.m. PT/ET on Science and at 10 p.m. PT/ET May 26 on Discovery (deadline.com)

Short & Sweet

— WFIRST renamed after pioneering astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman (spacenews.com)

— Skyrora completes first full static firing in the UK in half a century (skyrora.com)

— Northrop Grumman gets a Space Force contract (spacenews.com)

— Relativity hires SpaceX executive to lead launch vehicle production (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Ben Hallert on Artemis orbit limitations (twitter.com/chairboy)

— Also quoted in an article on the cult of Elon Musk (theatlantic.com)

This week in SF history

— 1971 May 30: launch of Mariner 9 (sci-hub.tw) (en.wikipedia.org) (space.skyrocket.de)

— Next week in 1966: “Not just any port in a storm.”

Spaceflight news

— Perseverance launch slips again (spacenews.com)

— Centaur has been repaired (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz)

Short & Sweet

— Rocket Lab suffers second-stage failure and loss of vehicle. (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/RocketLab)

— ULA receives its first BE-4. (spacenews.com)

— First indigenous-owned ground station to be built in Australia (satnews.com)

Interview: John Z. Kiss, Professor of Biology and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina Greensboro

— twitter.com/jzk60

— linkedin.com

— UNC bio and publication list (biology.uncg.edu)

— Read more

— Exploratory study ahead of sending Arabidopsis on CLPS (content.sciendo.com)

— Feature article on Dr. Kiss’ work (researchmagazine.uncg.edu)

— TedX talk “Someday We Will Live on Mars) (youtu.be)

— Seedling Growth-2 (youtube.com)

— Seedling Growth-3 (nasa.gov)

This week in SF history

— 7 July 1998: first orbital launch from a sub (en.wikipedia.org)

— Based on R-29RM (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week in 1975: How long does it take an astronaut to flip a patch upside-down? 7.5 hours.

Spaceflight News

— Starship Flight 2 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com) (youtube.com) (twitter.com/thejackbeyer) (twitter.com/planet4589)

— Posted after recording: a quick analysis of Starships acceleration curves (twitter.com/Space_Josiah)

Short & Sweet

— SaxaVord struggles to pay contractors (europeanspaceflight.com)

— Sierra Space layoffs (cnbc.com)

— Mars Helicopter completes back-to-back flights (twitter.com/nasajpl)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 27 Nov, 1963: Launch of the first hydrolox rocket to orbit (en.wikipedia.org) (spacelaunchreport.com VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (11/28 - 12/4) in 2015: Every journey of millions of kilometers starts with a couple meters.

Spaceflight News

-- More Starliner Delays (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/jeff_foust) (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: https://arstechnica.com)

Short & Sweet

-- U.S. accuses Russia of launching countersat weapon (spacenews.com) (payloadspace.com)

-- Redwire wins award for European lunar lander’s robot arm (europeanspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: Bepi-Colombo power failure (esa.int)

-- Ryan R: Technology Connections talked about heterodyne radios (youtube.com VIA discord.com)

Interview -- Justin Fiaschetti, CEO and Co-Founder of Inversion

-- twitter.com/InversionSpace

-- inversionspace.com

-- linkedin.com

-- linkedin.com

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 2 Jun, 2003. Launch of Mars Express (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (universetoday.com)

-- Next week (6/4 - 6/10) in 1959: A short-term version of the above