Sputnik's Beep to Triton's Geysers: The Precision Orbits That Shaped Spaceflight

A single beep from Sputnik shocked the world. What followed rewrote how we launch, navigate, and explore space. From Newton and Lagrange to Baikonur and Cape Canaveral, this episode traces the exacting math and gutsy engineering behind real missions: the R7’s clustered boosters lighting on the pad,…