Ben Etherington Podcasts

Spaceflight News — Dawn Aerospace discusses future plans (parabolicarc.com) Short & Sweet — Artemis-II gets its engines (nasaspaceflight.com) — Firefly launches Victus Nox (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Stoke Space test fires (twitter.com/stoke_space) This Week in Spaceflight History — 22 Sep, 1981. Colombia spil…

Spaceflight News — Aditya-L1 studyin’ the Sun (space.com) (eoportal.org) (PDF: iiap.res.in) Short & Sweet — Starship stands corrected (spacenews.com) — MaiaSpace tests cryogenic second stage (europeanspaceflight.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Apollo LOX tanks (twitter.com/DrPhiltill) This Week in Spaceflight History — 15 Se…

Spaceflight News — OSIRIS-REx prep (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — New Frontiers competition delayed (spacenews.com) — Ariane 6 hot-fire test delayed (europeanspaceflight.com) — Otter Pup detumbled! (payloadspace.com) (twitter.com/StarfishSpace) This Week in Spaceflight History — 9 Sept, 2006: The launch of STS-1…

Spaceflight News — Chandrayaan-3 landing (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (isro.gov.in) (indianexpress.com VIA 12ft.io) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Starship Booster 9 static fire (with deluge) (twitter.com/SpaceX) Interview -- IEEE Senior Member David Witkowski — Further reading: Public Wifi Blueprint (PDF: …

Spaceflight News — Luna-25 (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com/katlinegrey) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (Paywall: russianspaceweb.com) Short & Sweet — Starship booster coronation (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX) — Intuitive Machines has a launch date (spacenews.com) — Russia explores reusable first-stage (aviationweek.com) Questions, Comm…

Spaceflight News — Lunar Flashlight failure (spacenews.com) (PDF: mstl.atl.calpoly.edu VIA web.archive.org) (PDF: ssdl.gatech.edu) (PDF: digitalcommons.usu.edu) Short & Sweet — Boeing aiming for six Starliner flights to ISS (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) — NASA test-fires Mars Ascent Vehicle’s motor (space.com) — To Artemis three or not to t…

Spaceflight News — Astra Layoffs (spacenews.com) (cnbc.com) Short & Sweet — Starship Activities (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Cygnus gets an upgrade (spacenews.com) — Airbus and Voyager announce commercial space station plans (spacenews.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 11 and 12 Aug, 1962: The launc…

Spaceflight News — 2023 Tipping Point selections (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov) (PDF: nasaprs.com) — Blue Origin’s Blue Alchemist separates regolith into several important base materials (blueorigin.com) — We talked to Kyla Edison about sintering regolith (theorbitalmechanics.com) Short & Sweet — HALO’s added cost (spacenews.com) — Sierra Space builds a bet…

Spaceflight News — A Commercial Space Station Source Selection (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) (PDF: sam.gov) (news.northropgrumman.com) (sierraspace.com) (specialaerospaceservices.com) (vastspace.com) Short & Sweet — Recently arrived GEO satellites in trouble (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (arstechnica.com) — China develops plan to land humans on Moon b…

Spaceflight News Vulcan Centaur delays (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com) Short & Sweet — China begins constructing VLEO constellation (spacewatch.global) — LandSpace wins the race (nasaspaceflight.com) — Janus canceled (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — An NSF tour of Astra’s rocket factory (youtube.com) Thi…

Spaceflight News — Au revoir, Ariane 5 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (Payload User’s Guide PDF: arianespace.com) — Two solids provide ~90% of Ariane 5’s thrust (esa.int) — ESA plans to lean on SpaceX launches (spacenews.com) — New test facility for Ariane 6 was built in 2019 (esa.int) Short & Sweet — Varda completes pharmaceutical manufactu…

Spaceflight News — Mars oxygen and helicopter sighting (space.com) (HT Stygarfield: nasa.gov) — Vega C delayed after engine test failure (europeanspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — Virgin Galactic completes first fully commercial flight (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — Euclid telescope prepares for launch (spacenews.com) — Dream Chas…

Spaceflight News — Starship hot staging and engine firing (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/AshleyKillip) — Earlier description of separation flip (teslarati.com) Short & Sweet — Prometheus test fire (nasaspaceflight.com) — Anti-ASAT antipathy (spacenews) — Launcher’s second OTV fails on orbit (spacenews.com) (geekwire.com) This We…

Spaceflight News — iROSA campaign complete, looking to next campaign (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet — ESA reserve astronaut to fly on Axiom flight (europeanspaceflight.com) — Impulse to supply propulsion for commercial space station (vastspace.com) — Rocket Lab goes suborbital (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History…

Spaceflight News — Luna-25/Luna-Glob delayed (space.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) Short & Sweet — Firefly and York both make acquisitions (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — Egypt to build space-monitoring station (africanews.space) This Week in Spaceflight History — 15th June, 1971: Launch …

Spaceflight News — Starliner Woes (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) — We tracked down some info on P-213 and P-213LW fiberglass tapes. (PDF: hansford.hk) (PDF: nitto.com) (spacematdb.com) Short & Sweet — UAE gives details on asteroid mission (spacewatch.global) — Commercial deep-space radar (spacenews.com) (satellitetoday.com) — North K…

Spaceflight News — HAKUTO-R failure analysis (HT deltaV: twitter.com/DJSnM) (twitter.com/jeff_foust) (ispace-inc.com) (spacenews.com) — Apollo software modeled terrain to avoid this exact issue (PDF HT Mike: ibiblio.org) Short & Sweet — Virgin Orbit assets sold off (spacenews.com) — ESA folds out a new heat shield (HT Andrew Z: esa.int) (newatlas.c…

Spaceflight News — Blue Origin wins HLS contract (spaceflightnow.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (PDF: sam.gov VIA nasa.gov) Short & Sweet — CAPSTONE tests its navigation technology (nasa.gov) — End of Lunar Flashlight (spacenews.com) — Core of Roman Space Telescope completed (spaceref.com VIA 12ft.io) This Wee…

Spaceflight News — China’s spaceplane makes maneuvers (spacenews.com) — Kosmos-2562 makes maneuvers as well (twitter.com/planet4589) (russianspaceweb.com) Short & Sweet — Plutonium Depletion (spacenews.com) — ULA prepares for more tests (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Vast and SpaceX shoot for first commercial spa…

Spaceflight News — Evolution Space becomes 9th private U.S. company to reach space (twitter.com/evolutionspace_) (parabolicarc.com) — UP Aerospace rocket rapidly RUDs (gizmodo.com) (youtube.com) — Incredible footage of payload separation was captured in 2015 (HT Stygarfield: reddit.com) (nasa.gov) — Swedish rocket lands in Norway (reuters.com) Shor…

Spaceflight News — Starship update (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz) (americaspace.com) — We missed the point of the skydiving pebble story (discord.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) — H3 failure analysis (twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin) (PDF: mext.go.jp) Short & Sweet — Hakuto-R likely in free-fall before loss of signal (HT Sam: twitter.com/ea4gpz) (space.com) (…

Spaceflight News — Starship, destroyer of concrete (youtube.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/landru79) (HT Iain from MaxQ: twitter.com/unrocket) (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Launch tower footage (HT Astro: reddit.com/r/space) — Liftoff footage (note debris impacting water) (twitter.com/SpaceX) — High speed footage from Tim Dodd x Co…

Spaceflight News — SpaceX cuts costs (spacenews.com) — Starship launch license (spacenews.com) — Relativity pivots away from Terran-1 (spacenews.com) (techcrunch.com) (relativityspace.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: JUICE launch successful (nasaspaceflight.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 20 Apr, 2004: The launch of G…

Spaceflight News — Centaur explosion (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (twitter.com/torybruno) — The test stand can be seen in 3D on Google Maps (google.com) Short & Sweet — Artemis II crew announced (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) — Dawn Aerospace completes successful spaceplane test flight (spacenews.com) (arste…

Spaceflight News — Exploring Mars Together (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — Seized assets in Kazakhstan threatens Soyuz-5 program (nasaspaceflight.com) — Virgin Orbit Layoffs (spacenews.com) (qz.com) — Rosotics announces large-scale 3D printer (spacenews.com) (newatlas.com) (rosotics.com) Questions, Comments, Correcti…