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Episode 147: DOWNLINK--Al Bowers
This week in SF history
-- March 1, 1924. Birth of Deke Slayton (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
-- Juno: end or extend? (nasaspaceflight.com)
-- SpaceX has more fairing issues. (spaceflightnow.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX)
Short & Sweet
-- Trace Gas Orbiter performs over 900 aerobrakes. (spaceflight101.com)
-- Ariane 5 followup (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
-- Jason via email: STS-100 was the Canadarm2 installation, but STS-74 was Hadfield’s first Shuttle mission.
Interview: Al Bowers, NASA Armstrong on the aero-gravity assist maneuver
-- Slideshow presentation (PDF: nasa.gov)
-- Heat capacity ratio is an important factor to the efficiency of this maneuver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_capacity_ratio)
-- If an AGA vehicle uses nuclear power, its likely to cause concern, just like Cassini did. (engadget.com)
-- A test mission would look a lot like HTV-2 (youtube.com)