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Episode 116: Overperformance and underperformance
- This week in SF history
- 17 July, 1975, UTC 16:19: End of the space race, AKA Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (wikipedia.org)
- APAS (wikipedia.org)
- Soyuz 7K-TM is weird and almost unique (wikipedia.org)
- 17 July, 1975, UTC 16:19: End of the space race, AKA Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (wikipedia.org)
- Spaceflight news
- XCOR closes (parabolicarc.com)
- SpaceX’s launch of Intelsat-35e achieved better performance than required (spaceflight101.com)
- Short & Sweet
- Chinasat 9A was able to raise itself to the proper orbit recovering from an anomaly during its june 19 launch. (xinhuanet.com)
- Pacific Spaceport Complex, AKA Kodiak is in operation again. (HT Sam Moore: reuters.com)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- Thanks to Chris Radcliff for pointing out the closed captions in this Virgin Orbit static fire video (youtube.com)
- Space Is Kind of Cool: How Rocket Engines Work - Part 2 - Flow and Pressure (youtube.com)
- Vote for the next MCC interview at theorbitalmechanics.com/survey
The only unmodified Soyuz 7K-TM to fly in space (spaceflight.nasa.gov)
So weird. (archive.org)