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.
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Episode 5: Acronyms
Notice that big launch footage GIF at the top? /u/shrubit did that for us!
- Spaceflight news
- NASA clarifies CCtCap decision (SFN) (NASA, great summation starting at the end of page 25)
- SPX isn’t the only one shooting for satellite internet (aviationweek)
- ASDS names: Just Read the Instructions (Twitter Twitter) Of Course I Still Love You (twitter)
- New FH reusable animation (YouTube)
- Moon Express wins 1 million dollars from Google for demonstrating a commercial lunar lander (CNBC)
- ATV Georges Lamaitre deboosts ISS (ESA)
- Zero-Prop Maneuver (YouTube) (NSF)
- ATV deboost in 2008 (JSC) (ESA)
- Rosetta prepares to lose orbit (Matt Taylor of ESA via YT)
- Discussion, questions, comments
- /u/high-house-shadow: eventually 4,000 of Musk’s sats will be put into LEO. (Aviation Week)
- /u/FlorianGer: Lagrange orbits are complicated (scilogs)
- Apollo-Soyuz model (Ideas.Lego)
- Minitrack, STADAN and MSFN
- Histories of STADAN, MSFN and NASCOM by William Corliss
- Upcoming spaceflight events
- Feb 8: DISCOVR on F9 from Cape Canaveral
- Feb 10: Dragon departs ISS
- Feb 11: XIV launch (ESA video)
- Feb 14: KompSat 3a on Dnepr-1 from Dombarovsky
- Feb 14: ATV departs ISS
- Feb 16: US EVA 29
- Feb 16: Iridium-NEXT on Dnepr from Dombarovsky