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 423: Angular Velocity
Spaceflight News
— Luna-25 (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com/katlinegrey) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (Paywall: russianspaceweb.com)
Short & Sweet
— Starship booster coronation (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX)
— Intuitive Machines has a launch date (spacenews.com)
— Russia explores reusable first-stage (aviationweek.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— Benjamin W. via email: Juno’s angular velocity
— Luis Mamakos via email: Can you desaturate momentum wheels with the spacecraft?
— From the intro: Shuttle hatch (HT Mike Stewart PDF: ibiblio.org)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 25 Aug, 2003: Launch of Spitzer Space Telescope (en.wikipedia.org) (spitzer.caltech.edu) (PDF: irsa.ipac.caltech.edu) (PDF: irsa.ipac.caltech.edu) (spaceflightnow.com)
— Dr. Lee Bennet’s talked to us about Spitzer (theorbitalmechanics.com)
— Next week (8/29 - 9/4) in 1984: Icicle