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Episode 1: Docking
Spaceflight news
Launched this week (GIF) (Thanks, /u/shrubit!)
Hayabusa II
EFT-1 attempt, 24 hour recycle, success
DirecTV 14 and GSAT 16
CBERS-4/Ziyuan-1
Ariane 6 confirmed funded
SPX “announces” plans for “low-cost and unfettered” satellite internet
SpaceX expected to qualify for Air Force certification by years end
Cyclops launches first “geometrically challenging” satellite (spinsat)
Venus Express bites the dust at long, long last
New Horizons wakes from hibernation
Discussion, questions, comments
Tell us what we got wrong! We’re doing this show for ourselves, but we want listeners to have a voice too.
Docking and berthing
See the photos below for some of the acronyms we talked about.
Upcoming launches
Dec 11: NROL-35
Dec 15 Yamal 401
Dec 16, 2014 2:31PM ESTL SPX-5/CRS-5
Dec 18: GSLV-III (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle)
Dec 18: O3B FM9-12
Hubble's soft capture fixture
PMA (Pressurized Mating Adapter) with Harmony on the left and a Shuttle on the right
A Soyuz probe
A Soyuz drogue
CBM (Common Berthing Mechanism)
NDS (NASA Docking System) with passive mode on the left, active on the right