Exploration
Every week we cover the latest spaceflight news, discuss past, current and future exploration efforts, and take a look at upcoming events. Tune in to hear about how humans get to space, how they stay in space and how unmanned craft reach farther and farther into the universe around us.
Episode 341: Weaving a Webb
Spaceflight news — JWST finishes deployment steps! — Primary and Secondary mirror deployment (esmats.eu) — Aft Deployed Instrument Radiator (PDF HT MMC: ttu-ir.tdl.org) — Cross stitch (reddit.com/r/CrossStitch) — Current estimate is 20 years worth of propellant (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) Short & Sweet — Paragon acquires spacesuit manufacturer (spaceref.com) — KSLV-2 failure is determined (spacenews.com) — China’s robotic arm performs test on orbit (space.com) Questions,....
Episode 340: JWST Goes Teakettle
Spaceflight news — JWST launched (blogs.nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — Realtra’s VIKI cameras looked fantastic! (realtra.space) (theorbitalmechanics.com) — Deployment explorer (webb.nasa.gov) — Port mid-boom deployment was delayed due to cover switches (twitter.com/NASAWebb) — Non-explosive pins were discussed in the pre-launch coverage (youtube.com) — Sunshade tensioning will be discussed in ep 341, as it was successfully completed the day this episode was....
Episode 339: Season's Yeetings from JWST
Spaceflight news — Superheavy (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Raptor 2 will produce 230+ tons of thrust (twitter.com/elonmusk) — McGregor will only perform Raptor 2 testing (twitter.com/elonmusk) — B4/SN20 will be used for the orbital flight test (twitter.com/elonmusk) — A guess about Starship stretching (reddit.com/r/spacex) — Possible tank volumes (HT Birkeland: forum.nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet — JWST delayed (blogs.nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) — Stoke Space....
Episode 338: Junk in the Frunk
Short & Sweet — Astra to launch next from Cape Canaveral (spacenews.com) — SpaceX gets FCC approval for Starship launch, starts construction on launchpad (dailymail.co.uk) (spaceflightnow.com) — NASA investigates Ingenuity helicopter’s transmission problem (cnet.com) — SpaceX Crew-5 to fly with cosmonaut (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/Rogozin) This week in SF history — 15 Dec, 1976.
Episode 336: Bad Vibrations
Spaceflight news — JWST bonk (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) (esa.int) (youtube.com) — The clamp came off “in a way that it was not designed to come off” (HT deltaV+Deathkin: twitter.com/wapodavenport) Short & Sweet — Japan to recruit astronauts for first time in 13 years (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) — Hubble makes a partial recovery (space.com) — Rocket Lab to manufacture more spacecraft components (smallsatnews.com) Questions, comments, corrections — From the intro:....
Episode 335: DOWNLINK--Matthew Kuhns, Masten Space Systems
Spaceflight news — Astraaaaaa! (space.com) (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org) — Astra issued an update after we recorded this episode (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/thesheetztweetz) Short & Sweet — Tyvak wins contract for very low-earth orbit mission (spacenews.com) — European startup tests aerospike engine (spacenews.com) — Satellite maneuvers to avoid near collision around Moon (cnet.com) Questions, comments, corrections — ThrustMe paper (nature.com) — From....
