The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— Bill Nelson to be nominated as next NASA head (spacenews.com) (whitehouse.gov)— Debris mayhem — Space Force would hire deorbiting satellites (spacenews.com) — Astroscale’s demo will launch on the GK Launch Services rideshare Soyuz (spacenews.com) — NOAA-17 broke up (spacenews.com) (HT Mike Stewart: archive.org) Short & Sweet— Chang’e 5 orbiter begins extended mission (spacenews.com)— JWST on target for launch in October (spacenews.com) (theatlantic.com)— Super Heavy is being stacked (teslarati.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)— Capella releases dish deployment video (cnbc.com) (directory.eoportal.org)Questions, comments, corrections— Emory S. via Discord: on-orbit servicing thoughtsThis week in SF history— 24 Mar, 2006. HiRISE takes its first images of Mars (space.com) (newscientist.com) (mars.nasa.gov)— Next week (3/30 - 4/5) in 1983. A little deeper pool.