The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— OSIRIS-REx completes TAG (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (asteroidmission.org) — Descent video and description by Dante Lauretta (asteroidmission.org) (twitter.com/NASA) — TAGSAM details (link.springer.com) (youtu.be) — We spoke with Richard Witherspoon, mission operations systems engineer at Lockheed Martin in Ep 186 (theorbitalmechanics.com)Short & Sweet— Falcon 9 core sets record with Starlink launch. (americaspace.com)— China reveals plans for a number of space projects. (spacenews.com)— GHGSat detects smallest methane emission ever from orbit. (smallsatnews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Chris Hofmann via DM and Ben Hallert (twitter.com/chairboy): Firefly launches out of Vandenberg, not WallopsThis week in SF history— 30 Oct, 1985. Launch of the eight-person shuttle crew, STS 61-A. Largest crew to date (en.wikipedia.org) (spacefacts.de) — Interview with Ernst Messerschmid, Payload Specialist (esa.int)— Next week (11/3-11/9) in 1