Space Gab Podcast #209 for 12 Dec 2022

Space Gab Podcast

The Orion spacecraft splashed down off the coast of Baja California at 12:40 p.m. Eastern Dec. 11, ending the 25.5-day Artemis 1 uncrewed test flight, Splashdown as seen from Orion spacecraft camera was cool too, China launches Long March 4C Y57 with Shiyan-20A & B, A repository provided by Scott Tilley (Twitter account coastal8049) contains Doppler and other data collected from the Artemis 1 mission, Liftoff of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with ispace's Hakuto-R moon lander, the UAE's Rashid rover, and NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission, I would really like to know what Apollo 11 astronaut and moon walker Buzz Aldrin TheRealBuzz thinks about the dearmoonproject and the proposed dearMoonCrew ... wouldn't you?, SpaceX confirms all 40 OneWeb internet satellites have deployed from the Falcon 9 rocket, Space Gab : ABL RS1 Flight 1 launch update : Operators observed off-nominal data and initiated a manual abort, NASA Taps Collins Aerospace to Develop New Space Station Spacesuits, China launches Long March 2D Y45 with Gaofen-5-01A, Artemis I Payload CuSP CubeSat Mission Update (Not good news), Astrobotic’s first lunar lander has passed a key set of acceptance tests, keeping the spacecraft on schedule for a launch in early 2023, The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking proposals for commercial services to deploy and operate payloads in outer space beyond Earth orbit, an area known as cislunar space, Virgin Orbit: First UK space launch from Cornwall faces delay, SpaceX applies to put direct-to-cell payload on some Gen2 Starlink sats.