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Episode 188: Pirouette

Episode 188: Pirouette

FromThe Orbital Mechanics Podcast


Episode 188: Pirouette

FromThe Orbital Mechanics Podcast

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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Dec 11, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week in SF history— December 12, 1965: Gemini 6A launch abort (wikipedia.org) — AST: Why did Gemini use ejection seats? (youtube.com)Spaceflight news— Fun CRS-16 landing (spacenews.com) — Video — Land tracking (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Onboard (twitter.com/elonmusk) — John Kraus took some great photos, particularly of recovery (johnkrausphotos.com) — Core B1050 might be reused for an internal SpaceX mission (witter.com/elonmusk) — B1050 r/SPX wiki tracking (reddit.com/r/spacex) — Scott Manley analysis (youtube.com)(youtube.com)— Starship/Super Heavy update — Heavy changes enroute — Demo Starship is being built now (twitter.com/elonmusk) — No update during Dear Moon announcement due to big changes (twitter.com/Erdayastronaut) — Unintuitive, metal design (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Images of demo Starship coming soon (twitter.com/elonmusk)Short & Sweet— OSIRIS-REx enters orbit around Bennu. (asteroidmission.org)— Chang’e 4 launches successfully. (spacenews.com)— Astra Space suffers a launch failure (spacenews.com)— Mars InSight is looking good so far. (parabolicarc.com)
Released:
Dec 11, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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