Episode 297: Fleet Arrival
02/17/21 • 60 min
Spaceflight news
— Mars Hope and Tianwen-1 arrive
— Great video from Tianwen-1 as it passes its first periareion (twitter.com/AJ_FI)
— Tianwen-1 will lower to a reconnaissance/landing orbit, then two different science orbits. (twitter.com/PRCMarsRover)
— Mars Hope sent back a fantastic image (bbc.com)
Mars fleet arriving soon
— Perseverance (americaspace.com) (everydayastronaut.com)
— Ingenuity (jpl.nasa.gov) (jpl.nasa.gov) (mars.nasa.gov)
— We previously talked to Ella Atkins about autonomous robotics (theorbitalmechanics.com)
Short & Sweet
— DARPA looks into off-earth manufacturing (rocketrundown.com)
— Turkey aims for 2023 lunar landing (reuters.com)
— The Vulcan pathfinder arrives (spaceflightinsider.com)
— Doors open at Blue Origin’s New Glenn factory (HT Andy Z: twitter.com/WordsmithFL)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Andrew Z and Espen via email: SN9 violation
— Andy pointed out debris separation (6:20 and 6:23: youtube.com)
— Espen pointed us at some illuminating tweets (HT Espen: twitter.com/wapodavenport)
This week in SF history
— 22 Feb, 1990. Launch of Ariane 4 V-36/407 (thespacereview.com) (capcomespace.net)
— Next week (2/23 - 3/1) in 2002: European cars may be small...
Spaceflight news
— Mars Hope and Tianwen-1 arrive
— Great video from Tianwen-1 as it passes its first periareion (twitter.com/AJ_FI)
— Tianwen-1 will lower to a reconnaissance/landing orbit, then two different science orbits. (twitter.com/PRCMarsRover)
— Mars Hope sent back a fantastic image (bbc.com)
Mars fleet arriving soon
— Perseverance (americaspace.com) (everydayastronaut.com)
— Ingenuity (jpl.nasa.gov) (jpl.nasa.gov) (mars.nasa.gov)
— We previously talked to Ella Atkins about autonomous robotics (theorbitalmechanics.com)
Short & Sweet
— DARPA looks into off-earth manufacturing (rocketrundown.com)
— Turkey aims for 2023 lunar landing (reuters.com)
— The Vulcan pathfinder arrives (spaceflightinsider.com)
— Doors open at Blue Origin’s New Glenn factory (HT Andy Z: twitter.com/WordsmithFL)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Andrew Z and Espen via email: SN9 violation
— Andy pointed out debris separation (6:20 and 6:23: youtube.com)
— Espen pointed us at some illuminating tweets (HT Espen: twitter.com/wapodavenport)
This week in SF history
— 22 Feb, 1990. Launch of Ariane 4 V-36/407 (thespacereview.com) (capcomespace.net)
— Next week (2/23 - 3/1) in 2002: European cars may be small...
Previous Episode
Episode 296: Spectre-2 Incoming
Spaceflight news
— Starship SN9 update (spacenews.com)
— Lots of leftover LOX visible on IR footage (youtube.com)
— SN8’s FAA violation (spacenews.com)
— Firefly wins CLPS contract (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)
— They will be flying the Blue Ghost lander and a number of science payloads (firefly.com)
— Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) (Image at parabolicarc.com)
— Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) (hou.usra.edu)
— Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity (LISTER) (today.ttu.edu)
— Lunar PlanetVac (LPV) (parabolicarc.com)
— Blue Ghost Payload User’s Guide (firefly.com)
— Space Utility Vehicle will be the service module/kick stage to get BG to the moon (firefly.com)
Short & Sweet
— Dragon breaks a record (americaspace.com)
— Nanoracks’ Bishop airlock powers on (houstonchronicle.com)
— OSIRIS-REx to return home (americaspace.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: Koenigsmann retiring (HT Colin: cnbc.com)
— Game night!
— Come play Sea of Thieves with Dennis and Ben
— Friday 4pm Eastern 1:00p Pacific
— Meet on Discord (twitter.com/orbitalpodcast)
This week in SF history
— 10 Feb, 2001. Ammonia leak during STS-98 spacewalk (nasa.gov) (esa.int) (spacefacts.de) (science.ksc.nasa.gov)
— The Early External Active Thermal Control was still being used during this mission (sae.org)
— Next week (2/16 - 2/22) in 1990. Potato in the tailpipe
Next Episode
Episode 298: Tango Delta
Spaceflight news
— Perseverance has landed! (arstechnica.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (uahirise.org)
— HiRISE managed to snap a photo of Perseverance under its parachute (uahirise.org) (HT Mike Stewart: twitter.com/HiRISE)
— Interview with Ingenuity’s Operations Lead (HT Colin-in-the-chat: spectrum.ieee.org)
— Ingenuity runs open source control software called f’ (github.com/nasa)
Short & Sweet
— China prepares to launch first segment of space station (spacenews.com)
— SpaceX demonstrates more data collection leads to more system knowledge (youtube.com)
— Test flight of Starliner slips to April (spacenews.com)
This week in SF history
— 1 March 2002: Launch of the world’s largest civilian earth observation satellite (earth.esa.int) (en.wikipedia.org)
— Succeeded European Remote Sensing Satellites (en.wikipedia.org) (esa.int)
— Eventually replaced by Sentinel (wikipedia.org)
— Next week (3/2 - 3/8) in 1999: Once you pop, the fun don’t start.
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