Episode 318: Pure Guts Poker

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

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Spaceflight news

— Nauka Launched (spacenews.com) (forum.nasaspaceflight.com)

— Three sets of engines on Nauka (twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb)

— Initial reports of issues (forum.nasaspaceflight.com)

— A summary was written on Wikipedia quite early (en.wikipedia.org)

— “Nothing irreparable” (twitter.com/katlinegrey)

— An initial RCS burn was made to get to a safe orbit (twitter.com/katlinegrey)

— First DKS firing reported by Anatoly Zak on July 23 (twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb)

— Kurs was declared operational on the 25th (twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb) (twitter.com/katlinegrey)

— We found this amateur imagery of the module delightful (twitter.com/ralfvandebergh)

— Next Generation Arecibo Telescope (space.com) (arxiv.org)

Short & Sweet

— Falcon Heavy gets a new customer (spacenews.com)

— China tests fairing recovery (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Rocket Lab concluded its launch failure investigation (spacenews.com)

This week in SF history

— 29 July, 1985. Launch and abort of STS 51-F (wiki) (PDF: jsc.nasa.gov) (americaspace.com)

— Next week (7/2 - 8/2) in 1975: Luckily, crisis was not avoided

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