The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

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Episode 6: Manipulators


  • Spaceflight  news
    • DSCOVR on its way to L1, BUT with no F9 1st stage recovery
    • MER and MRO’s last year (Twitter) (Twitter)
    • Mccain addresses Congress, calls out ULA’s exorbitant costs (Space News)
    • EVA info (NASA on YT) (BONUS: interview on why this walk is tough, and why EVAs are different than in the Shuttle days)
    • Dragon return (SFN)
    • Virgin Galac tic leased a new 150,000 square foot facility (V Gal)
  • Discussion, questions, comments
    • Amazing SLS solid booster manufacture video (Marshall on YT)
  • Remote Manipulators
    • After the show aired, Go Pro footage from EVA 30 was released with amazing LEE imagery at around 0:34:00. (archive.org)
  • Upcoming spaceflight events
    • Feb 17: Soyuz Progress 58P from Baikonur
    • Feb 27: Eutelsat 115 West B & ABS 3A on Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral 

A CubeSat deployed from the Kibo arm, operated by Sam Christoforetti the week this show aired.

Scott Parazynski on the end of OBSS, being gripped by Canadarm2

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took one of my favorite space images: MSL slowing down under its parachute. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Closeup of a grapple fixture on ISS

Canadarm2 during a capture practice session focusing on backup systems. Click through for more details.

ISS Commander Koichi Wakata poses with the end effector of Canadarm2. Notice the three semicircle indentations set in the collar of the inner chamber? Those fit with the "ramps" on a grapple fixture.


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 February 17, 2015  1h31m