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Episode 107: DOWNLINK--Scott Wray
- This week in SF history
- May 4, 1989. launch of Magellan(wikipedia.org)
- Watch Tim Dodd recreate this mission in Kerbal Space Program live on Wednesday night on twitch.tv/everydayastronaut
- Spaceflight news
- JWST latch issue (spacenews.com)
- Short and sweet
- KZ-21 will be 4.5m diameter, 20 tons to LEO, and engine testing next year, contract for four KZ-1A launches early next year in the same week (from mobile platform *whew*) (HT Sam Moore: nasaspaceflight.com)
- SEDS UCF IREC does full scale static fire (youtube.com)
- Apple’s looking at internet constellation (spacenews.com)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- Book club 2.0
- @space_mace: episode 104. The Chinese com sat has a throughput of 20 Gigabits per second, not Gigabytes per second.
- /u/Symmetry81: ISP is more handy than Ben thinks
- Relates to fuel usage, which isn’t always exhaust velocity, see jet engines
- /u/Nerobro: More about Redstone/Atlas
- Early rocket engines (and even many today) don't throttle well, so a good method for dropping to a lower throttle setting would be to shutdown, and drop off engines, like the atlas did.
- Jonathan Aguilar via email: Modified Newtonian Dynamics
- To be updated when posted on Reddit
- Interview: Scott Wray, Extravehicular Activities Trainer/Flight Controller
- VRlab DOUG (software.nasa.gov)
- twitter.com/stingwray
Magellan in processing, before IUS integration
Magellan in Atlantis' cargo bay