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Episode 236: Panel jettison

Episode 236: Panel jettison

FromThe Orbital Mechanics Podcast


Episode 236: Panel jettison

FromThe Orbital Mechanics Podcast

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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Nov 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Spaceflight news— Spacewalk to repair AMS (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) — AMS overview (nasa.gov) — Footage from the EVA — The cover is detached from the restraint clip (youtu.be) — Jettisoning the cover (youtu.be) — Chris Cassidy shows off a zip tie cutter/capture device (youtu.be)Short & Sweet— Hayabusa2 departs Ryugu (japantimes.co.jp)— SpaceX completes Crew Dragon Static Fire tests (spacenews.com)— Launcher gets funding from the Air Force. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Win a book! — Zach and Kelly Weinersmith wrote Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything. — We have signed copies to give away! In honor of the alternate first words featured on the new TV show For All Mankind, tweet at us with what your first words on Mars would be. — Random winners selected from Twitter and email.— Episode 2 is missing! — Do you have a copy of episode-2.mp3 lying around? Squarespace ate our copy!This week in SF history— November 19, 1956 Birth of Eileen Collins (wikipedia.org)— Next week in 1964: The cold, dead 1%
Released:
Nov 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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