The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— Nanoracks ISS airlock is nearly complete (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)— Dynetics HLS mockup arrives at JSC (twitter.com/Dynetics) (techcrunch.com) — On-orbit refueling is required to get Dynetics HLS to the moon (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Russia announces solo mission to Venus (dailymail.co.uk) (nplus1.ru) (twitter.com/katlinegrey)— China preps for Chang’e 5 launch (spacenews.com)— Artemis III’s landing site (spacepolicyonline.com) (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Ben Hallert: FH has launched three times, not two (twitter.com/chairboy)— Ben Hallert: Any Vulcan can have up to 6 SRMs, it’s Centaur that gets heavy (twitter.com/chairboy)— Andrew Z: Interesting Boeing read (aviationweek.com)This week in SF history— 23 Sept, 1999. Mars Climate Orbiter failure (wikipedia.org) (spectrum.ieee.org) (PDF: sunnyday.mit.edu)— Next week in 2003: a bureaucratic Voltron