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.
https://theorbitalmechanics.com/show-notes/
Episode 408: Swedish Yeetfall
Spaceflight News
— Evolution Space becomes 9th private U.S. company to reach space (twitter.com/evolutionspace_) (parabolicarc.com)
— UP Aerospace rocket rapidly RUDs (gizmodo.com) (youtube.com)
— Incredible footage of payload separation was captured in 2015 (HT Stygarfield: reddit.com) (nasa.gov)
— Swedish rocket lands in Norway (reuters.com)
Short & Sweet
— Dragonfly faces proposed 20% budget cut (spacenews.com)
— New prospects for New Horizons (spacenews.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— Espen via email: Starship engine data loss, AFTS activation time
— Andy Z via email: Starship separation flip
— Anderson via DM: Sea launch vs pad reconstruction (HT VaxHeadroom: twitter.com/RyanHansenSpace)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 13 May, 1998. AsiaSat-3’s lunar flyby (en.wikipedia.org) (patents.google.com) (carlkop.home.xs4all.nl) (novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru VIA web.archive.org)
— The DM-2M failure was caused by a duct failure between the gas generator and pump turbine (ilslaunch.com)
— Next week (5/16 - 5/22) in 2011: Pass the baton