Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

The Discussion:

•Struggling to get the media excited about astronomy.

•How history will record the clusterf**k that is 2020.

•Skyrora looking to join the smallsat launch market.

•SpaceX’s Teletubby costumes.

 

The News: Rounding up the space exploration news this month we have:

•Starship prototype goes Kablooey.

•Britain returns to rocketry.

•Goodbye to Japan’s ISS resupply spacecraft.

•The European Space Agency look to ‘natural resources’ for moonrises.

•Virgin Orbit attempt to slash the cost of launching to Low Earth Orbit.

•NASA chooses 3 commercial consortia to develop lunar landers.

Main news story: American commercial crewed launches have finally arrived!

 

Q&A: Will the Lunar Gateway be visible from Earth? From Alex Bell @BLT_Astro on Twitter.

 

The Electromagnetic Spectrum: The near and mid-infrared part of the spectrum. How it became so important for astronomy and by whom. There's no extra charge for the crows cawing outside Jen's flat.

 

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