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Episode 103: DOWNLINK--Zero 2 Infinity
- This week in SF history
- 8 April 1959. RVX1-5 becomes first recovered payload on an ICBM flight (airandspace.si.edu)(tektites.co.uk)
- Spaceflight news
- SES-10 historic launch and landing
- Press conference (forum.nasaspaceflight.com)(youtube.com)
- 2nd stage recovery (twitter.com/elonmusk)
- Fairing recovery (reuters.co)
- Octoweb construction changed? (reddit.com/r/spacex)
- SES-10 historic launch and landing
- Space hack: US EVA 41 with Scott Wray
- EVA overview (nasaspaceflight.com)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- /u/symmetry81: First MCT will be Heart of Gold! (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)
- Interview: Jose Mariano Lopez-Urdiales of Zero 2 Infinity
- Topics mentioned
- Google’s internet-via-balloon project (x.company/loon)
- Pressurized with tridyne (PDF: nasa.gov)
- Use ASTOS for mission planning (en.wikipedia.org)
- JM Lopez-Urdiales' previous interview on TMRO (youtube.com)
- zero2infinity.space/
- twitter.com/zero2infinity
- twitter.com/jmlu77
- twitter.com/Bloostar
- facebook.com/zero2infinity
- Topics mentioned
RVX1-5 on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
A shot from inside Multipurpose Support Room as the team confirmed that the PMA cover could be successfully deployed.
An on-orbit view of the PMA cover in place.