The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— More Russian fallout — Russia threatens OneWeb launch (spaceflightnow.com) — OneWeb looking to non-Russian rockets (spacenews.com) — eROSITA turned off on Russian Spektr-RG (space.com) — ExoMars likely to be delayed (spacenews.com) — South Korea worried about Russian launches (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Anahuac pleads guilty to selling tainted rocket fuel (justice.gov)— Iranian launch failure (apnews.com) — Post-recording, Iran successfully launched their second orbital payload. (reuters.com)— SpaceX awarded 3 more commercial crew missions (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Andrew Z via email: More sanctions considerations— MMC in the chat: loss of ISS would free up money for the Moon.This Week in Spaceflight History— 13 March, 1985, Launch of Geosat (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: jhuapl.edu) (earth.esa.in)— Next week (3/15 - 3/21) in 2003. Bringing fire to icy worlds.