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 4: LATE
- Spaceflight news
- Elon does on AMA on reddit.
- Molly McCormick talks about space suit design
- ViaSat says F9H lifts twice the capacity for 1/3rd the cost. (Space News)
- CRS-5 successful launch
- NASA factsheet
- GIF set from VidOrbital
- "Grid fins worked extremely well from hypersonic velocity to subsonic, but ran out of hydraulic fluid right before landing." (@elonmusk)
- "Upcoming flight already has 50% more hydraulic fluid, so should have plenty of margin for landing attempt next month." (@elonmusk)
- A shocking speculation on RP-1 being the hydraulic fluid (reddit)
- Musk plans to do for satellites what SpaceX has done for rockets (Business Insider) (TechTimes)
- Dragon pad abort delayed to NET Feb 10 (FCC via reddit)
- RS-25 testing begins (Youtube) (Universe Today)
- James Webb begins critical instrumentation testing (NSF)
- Accumulator alarm on ISS 1-14 (NSF forums)
- Elon does on AMA on reddit.
- Discussion, questions, comments
- Sam Christoforetti logbook +44, +45
- The rocket equation
- /u/7357: It’s Opportunity, not Curiosity that had an SSD fix this week
- Spaceflight 101: TDRS
- NASA spec page
- Further reading: Mars TDRS system
- Upcoming space flight events
- 20 Jan: MUOS 3 on Atlas V
- 22 Jan: Kompsat 3A on Dnepr
- 28 Jan: IGS Radar Spare on HII-A
- 29 Jan: SMAP on Delta II
- 31 Jan: DSCOVR on Falcon 9
- 30 Jan: Inmarsat 5 F2 on Proton
- 1 Feb: Kanopus ST on Soyuz 2-1v
- 4 Feb: XIV (just in case the next episode is late)
TDRS-A being deployed from Challenger's cargo bay
TDRS-K in the spacecraft assembly lab
A diagram of 3rd generation TDRS componants
1st generation TDRS satellite