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Episode 14: Fuel Up!
- Spaceflight news
- Criminal charges pending after 2013 Proton crash (SF101)
- RS-25 stand test (YT)
- LightSail failure (planetary.org)
- Software bug (planetary.org)
- Lost and regained communications a second time (SFN)
- Hope to have sail deployment day of recording (twitter)
- Testing on failed Soyuz engine #1 (nasa.gov)
- Proton failure due to excessive third stage turbo vibrations (Spacepolicyonline.com) (TASS)
- SPX’s internet satellite FCC application (FCC.gov).
- Shrubit’s summation (/r/spacex)
- Adeline (spacenews)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- Ben Honey: no OOP burns for ISS! (/r/orbitalpodcast)
- Fuels
- Requested by Lucas Moore
- Good list of fuel specs (NASA)
- History of the Centaur LH2 upper stage (NASA)
- Liquid Rocket Engine Design (fit.edu)
- How to desigh, build and test small liquid-fuel rocket engines by Rocketlab (cientificosaficionados.com)
- IGNITION! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark (davesource.com)
- LH2, Love it or hate it. (Selenianboondocks)
- Upcoming spaceflight events, brought to you by twitter.com/nextlaunch
- June 9: LDSD?
- Successful flight but parachute failure (YT)
- June 11, 2:30 a.m EST: Soyuz TMA-15M hatch closing, undocking
- Webcast (NASATV) (YT)
- June 22, 9:52pm EDT: Vega carrying Sentinel-2A
- Webcast (arianespace)
- ESA overview (YT)
- June 25: PSLV-XL carrying DMC-3A, -3B, -3C
- Webcast (DoordarshanNational)
- June 26, 11:09am EDT: Falcon9 v1.1 carrying CRS-7
- Webcast (spacex)
- June 9: LDSD?