The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

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Episode 143: Stuck in a Funk


This week in SF history

-- February 1, 1939: birth of Wally Funk (wikipedia.org)

Spaceflight news

-- Rocket Lab snuck in a third stage! (rocketlabusa.com)

---- Hid it in plain sight (reddit.com/r/RocketLab) (HT: Sam Moore b14643.de)

----- Curie engine puts out 120N thrust (popularmechanics.com)

---- Mike Brown doesn’t like it (HT Sam Moore: twitter.com/plutokiller)

-- Ariane 5 flies off course (spaceflightnow.com) (arstechnica.com) (spaceflight101.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Google Lunar Xprize is over (lunar.xprize.org)

-- Falcon Heavy has a launch date. (spacenews.com)

-- IMAGE found! (skyriddles.wordpress.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

-- /u/nerobro: dropping 1st stage engines is a false economy (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)


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