The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— Long March 5B set for uncontrolled re-entry (spacenews.com) — The module raised and is maintaining orbit (HT Colin: heavens-above.com) — The booster is slowly deorbiting (HT Mike: heavens-above.com) — Amateur video shows the booster in a 2.4 hz tumble (twitter.com/dfuji1)— BIG Ingenuity Update! — Flight 3 was a success (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) — Flight 4 was a delayed success (space.com) (spacenews.com) — Ingenuity’s mission was extended (twitter.com/jeff_foust) (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Virgin Orbit to launch out of Brazil (smallsatnews.com)— Blue Origin and Dynetics protest HLS award (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)— Nelson confirmed as NASA Administrator (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Ben Hallert: ACES details (twitter.com/chairboy) — ACES had on-orbit refueling (arstechnica.com) — Centaur V has a hydrolox RCS… Peroxide was a typo! (twitter.com/torybruno)This week in SF history— 5 May, 1999: The failed second flight of Delta