DiscoverThe Orbital Mechanics PodcastEpisode 495: NICER than orange slices
Episode 495: NICER than orange slices

Episode 495: NICER than orange slices

Update: 2025-01-29
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Spaceflight News

— NICER repair on EVA 91 (nasaspaceflight.com) (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (science.nasa.gov) (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— ESA to vote on future of Space Rider spacecraft (europeanspaceflight.com)

— China hops higher, maybe (spacenews.com) (bilibili.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: New Shepard’s lunar gravity mission (spacenews.com)

— Hydraq via email: CH4 hydrodynamics in Starship

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 3 Feb, 1994: The launch of STS-60 (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (nss.org)

Next week (2/4 - 2/10) in 1995: Hey, it’s me again. I’m outside.

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Episode 495: NICER than orange slices

Episode 495: NICER than orange slices

David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just