The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight News— JWST cryocooler — Alternative tube configurations include U-bend and coaxial (PDF p7: trc.nist.gov) — Testing shows the cryocooler is TWICE as efficient as required! (nasa.gov) — JWST’s radiators are coated with BIRB (PDF: indico.cern.ch)Short & Sweet— Curiosity’s wheels take a lickin’ but keep on tickin’ (cnet.com)— InSight weathers a dust storm (spacenews.com) (reddit.com/r/InSightLander)— Astra receives first Part 450 (twitter.com/Astra) (spacepolicyonline.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Uncle_Willy via Discord: four reasons why running Oxy-rich is bad— BreakingTaps on YT made a JWST Hexapod Actuator model!!! More on this next week. (youtube.com)Interview – Tupper Hyde, Chief Engineer at NASA's Goddard Center— twitter.com/TupperHyde— linkedin.com/in/tupperhyde— nasa.gov/goddard— etd.gsfc.nasa.gov— Also discussed: the next generation of space telescopes is LUVOIR (en.wikipedia.org)This week in Spaceflight history—  February 10th 2009, The collision of Iridium 33 and