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Episode 2: Maneuvers
- Spaceflight news
- Morpheus free flight 15 (image of fueling during 12-11 attempt, video of successful flight 12-16)
- Opportunity loses flash memory
- Antares returns to Wallops in 2015 (will be using RD-181s)
- Return to Hyabusa II
- Orion re-entry footage released
- Discussion, questions, comments
- TMRO 7.37: Atlas 541 configuration disambiguation
- @bencredible’s comment
- /u/7357’s comment
- Spaceflight 101: Orbital Maneuvers
NASA educational video on orbital mechanics
ESA’s Soyuz rendezvous video
- Correction already: the Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System burns a hypergolic fuel, not a monopropellant
- Upcoming space flight events
- Dec 23 Angara 5 with dummy payload (Plesetsk)
- Dec 24 Lotos S (Plesetsk)
- Dec 26 Resurs-P #2 (Baikonur)
- Dec 28 ASTRA 2G (Baikonur)
- Fengyun 2G (Xīchāng)
- NET Jan 6 CRS-5