Failure To Launch Podcast

We've got October's schedule for you! Especially excited to chat space policy with @nik-proxima.bsky.social and flying to space in a sweatshirt with @engineertexavery.bsky.social!

People have been asking a lot of questions about Alberta's recent referendum. We got @foldablehuman.bsky.social on board and did our best to answer them. youtu.be/I5OeFqehZzc

Redding's "Space Cruiser" patent: www.freepatentsonline.com/6257527.pdf It's a single-pilot 8m long conical spaceplane with enough dV to perform a plane change and missions like intercepting Soviet satellites. Mass 4500 kg, with a multitude of launch option including off the back of an SR-71.

Banging the same drum as always: removing or hiding public space records hurts every part of the space industry. Every working space engineer or scientist has found the answer to some technical problem in an old file from 1972. Hiding info just forces everyone to reinvent the wheel every time.

Very interesting DSP (and processing) photos, and until better quality photos get released here an attempt to clean them up a bit.

Thank you @nik-proxima.bsky.social for teaching us about an incredible quote

POV: you are a new cosmonaut, it is 3am at a party in The Insertion, and the Deputy Training Director of Star City has just given you something he's calling Devil's Venom

The varying estimates given yesterday for the number of refueling flights needed for a Starship lunar lander mission could be summarized (with apologies to Chicago) as "22 or 6 to 8".

Thank you @nik-proxima.bsky.social for teaching us about an incredible quote

🚀 October Half Term is nearly here! From 26 October–1 November, there’s plenty to discover at Jodrell Bank, with space, science, creativity and a little Halloween fun along the way! 🎃✨ www.jodrellbank.net/events/october-half-term-at-jodrell-bank/

𝐋’𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐞 𝐞𝐭 𝐥𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 🚀 Réponse au quiz : 1961 Dans le domaine de l’énergie et de la propulsion, l’#ONERA affecta dès le début des équipes à l’étude des moteurs fusées à ergols liquides et propergols solides, des statoréacteurs et des turbomachines.

Space Rider has been a long time coming, although it seems like spaceplanes and other lifting bodies have had quite the challenge to service entry.

New New Glenn boom angle dropped (via r/rocketry Discord leak)

New New Glenn boom angle dropped (via r/rocketry Discord leak)

This is just bonkers, 100% full-goose bozo. NASA has better things to spend its time, resources, and people on.

And Lift Off! A glorious launch of #MMX, the start of an amazingly awesome 5 yr round trip to Mars' moon Phobos. 1yr to get there, 3yrs exploration landing on the surface (twice), then 1yr to get home with the bounty (2tbls of Phobos dust), arriving in the Australian outback in 2031! 🥳🔭🧪🛰️🚀

oh dear god that is convoluted I love it

It’s not for nothing that I can no longer stand the sight of SpaceX rockets—which I once loved—now that they have become symbols of lies, corruption, and racism, with so much blood on Musk hands.

🛰️👨🏼‍🚀 L'ISRO a complété avec succès une série de tests de séparation du Module de l'Équipage (CM) du Module de Service (SM) pour les missions Gaganyaan. Ces tests mettent en œuvre la coupure de plusieurs connexions ombilicales entre le CM et le SM.

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

This blog post has never excited much interest, but it's one of my favorites. It discusses the history of the Soyuz spacecraft and describes a little-known November 1992 US/Russian tour of potential space station lifeboat landing sites in Australia. spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2015/03/inte...

New bonus episode! Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 had 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 mission. You know the one. I'm obviously talking about the one where you help a British dude nuke and destroy the ISS by accident. We talked to space policy knower @nik-proxima.bsky.social to see how exactly illegal nuking the ISS would be.

We were already excited for KSA (especially with how many ex-KSP folks they have working on it) and thia is great news

Rejected Space Mission Profiles xkcd.com/3310/

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Great article! Also, if you want to hear a bit more about Soyuz-23:

I’m back on Behind the Bastards! This time Robert Evans is the one being told all about a terrible person. Justice, arguably

ONE WEEK UNTIL THE LAUNCH OF MMX! 🚀 There is some subtle messaging at the station closest to the JAXA Sagamihara campus.

nobody from Artemis II wants to deal with Space Outlook again

An early Space Shuttle concept was to rendezvous with Skylab and use a space tug called the Teleoperator Retrieval System to boost it into a higher orbit. Ultimately it was cancelled. (The Shuttle would be farther away, but I fudged it a little) (Blender + NASA public domain)

in the know is BACK 👇👇

"AIRTURBORAMJET/ROCKET"

Very good episode of FTL and of course topical and pertinent to our moment. (Go support them on Patreon etc. instead of using this Spotify link.)

I love @failuretolaunch.bsky.social and cannot recommend this episode enough. It will make you angry.