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Episode 74: DOWNLINK--Dr. Bruce Betts
- Spaceflight news
- AMOS-6 explosion
- Elon Musk says it’s a fast fire, not an explosion (twitter.com/elonmusk)
- Visualization of theoretical Crew Dragon abort (twitter.com/StateMachines)
- Only recently began doing static launches after payload integration, saving a day of prep. (twitter.com/pbdes)
- Vehicle wasn’t insured for this kind of accident, only for transport to site and after ignition. (twitter.com/pbdes)
- Note on economic impact on Spacecom (reddit.com/r/spacex)
- Very good video analysis by Scott Manley (youtube.com)
- Gaofen-10 has [probable] launch failure (forum.nasaspaceflight.com)
- AMOS-6 explosion
- Questions, comments, corrections
- /u/nerobro: Discussion about ISS FOD hit probabilities. (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)
- Scott Manley’s demonstration (youtube.com)
- /u/nerobro: Discussion about ISS FOD hit probabilities. (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)
- Bruce Betts interview (Here's the companion episode from Spacepod!)
- Deployment test from January (youtube.com)
- planetary.org
- sail.planetary.org
- Lots of photos from the deployment test mentioned (planetary.org)
- twitter.com/RandomSpaceFact
- twitter.com/exploreplanets