Interplanetary Podcast

This week we talk about Black Holes, what Pauli Exclusion and Heisenberg Uncertainty have to do with them, and how everything Matt thought he knew was wrong.

ESA-led team has built and fired an electric thruster to ingest scarce air molecules from the top of the atmosphere for propellant

Lightsail 2 going up on Falcon Heavy

Tim Peake Visits Airbus and the Eutelsat Quantum Satellite

Bridenstine Nomination still Blocked in Senate

Space Song playlist on spotify bit.ly/spacesongs

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This week we talk a lot about the amazing Planck Space Telescope and it's heroics with the Cosmic Background Radiation seeing back to the start of time from it's Lissajous orbit in the shade of the Legrange point.

We have time for a bit of space news

SpaceX testing the latest and last of it's Falcon 9 rockets the Block 5

Curiosity finds a new way to drill on mars, like a dad on DIY monday.

TGO ExoMars finishes it's aerobraking manouvres

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin retunr to earth

European Astronaut centre shifting emphasis to deep space missions with a new Lunar facility

Deep Space Gateway is now called the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway

JAXA H-IIA rocket launches Spy Satellite

Paul Allen's Stratolaunch aircraft does more taxiing

SpaceX’s Mr. Steven, the fairing catching glove

Quick Investigation Pinpoints Cause of Ariane 5 Partial Failure

Featuring an amazing interview with Head of ESA NBF Operations and EVA Training Unit Hervé Stevenin

Sci-Fi Predictions with Harriet Brettle

Goonhilly Earth Station, a commercial tracking station in Cornwall

The Republic of Croatia signed a Cooperation Agreement with ESA

All 7 Solar system Planets (not including Pluto) fit Between the Earth and Moon

Space Song playlist on spotify bit.ly/spacesongs

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Featuring an amazing interview with Space Expert David Baker, taking a closer look at Falcon Heavy and what it all means, we also chat about Zuma!!!, and the new Nasa Budget.

Venus V Mars

Currently no manned missions to Venus in discussion at all ...But Why ? George Russell explains why there should be!!!

New Horizons picture is Farthest Ever Taken From Earth!

What really happened to GovSat-1’s Falcon 9 first stage

European wakeup call. JAN WOERNER Blog

http://blogs.esa.int/janwoerner/2018/02/11/europes-move/

"I was a little bit jealous," Richard Branson

The SpaceX satellite constellation

What is an Analemma?

Space Song playlist on spotify bit.ly/spacesongs

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We Chat about the Falcon Heavy Launch OBVIOUSLY!

Great news on the Dream Chaser

Trappist-1 and Extragalactic Exoplanets

ESA’s Rave in Space

10th anniversary of the launch of the ESA’s Columbus Laboratory Module

Space Walk - Misurkin and Shkaplerov

Quick interview with Paul Hildebrandt Director, Fight for Space, and new Apollo 8 Documentary "First to the Moon" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/420606009/first-to-the-moon-the-journey-of-apollo-8

Space Song playlist on spotify bit.ly/spacesongs

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Featuring our space chat with Tim Peake, Britain's ESA astronaut

60th Anniversary of the start of the Space Race

Ariane 5 Launch stress. SpaceX and Soyuz triumphs.

Opportunity 14 years on Mars

Falcon Heavy, Fox and the Grapes

Space Song playlist on spotify bit.ly/spacesongs

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Atmospheres are special.

Is it all over for the ISS,

How's Falcon Heavy doing,

What's up with the Lunar Xprize,

Looking forward to the Ariane5 Launch and GOLD.

Are Rocket Lab graffiti of the skys with Humanity Star?

Crypto funding and democratising space with Spacebit

A spacewalk to fix a trusty workers hand

Remembering the fallen heroes of Space

Featuring our Space Song playlist on spotify bit.ly/spacesongs

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Featuring our 50+ Space Song playlist on spotify

Bowie, Radiohead, Strauss, Holst, Eno, Sufjan Stevens all give Space a go.

Zuma Blame Game Begins

Bad Delays to NASA’s commercial crew program

Crater Neukum named after Mars Express founder

International Space Station spacewalks Jan. 23 and 29

Venus with Akatsuki

NASA Announces Updated Crew Assignments for Space Station Missions

Launches!

Space fact!

Playlist http://bit.ly/spacesongs

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Featuring our chat with Eric Berger of ArsTechnica about what to expect in 2018

Space Science : Tabby Star Update

Astronaut of the Week: John Young

Space fact: Fastest Launch

Quote: Nadia Drake

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Cover : Lockheed Martin

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The first Podcast of the year - The preview of the YEAR 2018 !!!

Out a little early

Can you spot the mission in the cover shot?

We launch our Patreon page

Recording on January the 1st 2018

News

Angosat has been recued!!!

Progress MS-06 freighter undocks from ISS

Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space, has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

Prof Michele Dougherty from Imperial College, London, has become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire

2018 Preview

UK

2018 will be the Year of Engineering

Falcon 9 heavy

January 15, no date has yet been officially, Rocket fans should be cautious using this date to book flights, before Spacex conduct a successful Static Fire test, after all they have 27 Engines to test (started in pairs in a 120ms sequence)

Rocket lab electron launch

Second attempt for this New Zealand outfit to get their rocket orbital after a delay from December

India

10th Jan PSLV with 2 surrey satellite satellites on board more details next week including planetary Resources-built Arkyd-6

Chandrayaan 2 will comprise an orbiter, lander and rover developed by the country's space agency, ISRO. The mission is currently slated to launch on a GSLV rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh around March.

JAXA ss-520

TESS

NASA’s next exoplanet-hunting spacecraft launch on a falcon 9 in march

Crew Dragon

Musk says he is confident the company will fly people in 2018

SpaceX is scheduled to do an uncrewed test flight of the Dragon capsule in April, followed by the first crewed flight test in August. possible Block 5 version of Falcon 9 maiden flight

Starliner

Boeing is targeting August for an uncrewed flight of the Starliner and a crewed flight for November.

Virgin Galactic

Should soon begin powered test flights of VSS Unity and Virgin Galagtic Launcher one!!!

NASA’s InSight Mars lander

Launched on on a Atlas V rocket, the 30-day launch window from May 5th. It should land on Mars around the end of November.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

Launched on Delta IV Heavy rocket a month later between July 31st and August 19th

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx

August, the spacecraft will come within 1.2 million miles of Bennu. OSIRIS-REx will then use its onboard propulsion catch up with the asteroid.

JAXA’s Hayabusa2

Expected to arrive at it’s target the asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) in July 2018, survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020

JAXA’s and ESA’s BepiColombo

The spacecraft are set to launch combined on top of a European Ariane 5 rocket in October and will arrive at Mercury in 2025

CHINA Chang'e 4

Will launch the lander/rover in the latter part of the year

CHINA Tianhe-1

First of three large modules that will make up the completed Chinese Space Station

SpaceX Space Tourists!!!

Lunar trip on a falcon heavy for 2 tourists in a crew dragon

One web

might start flying up on a European Soyuz

Arianne 6

In October 2018, when the launch complex has been constructed, the validation phase will begin By the first quarter of 2018, key decisions will be made on the exploitation of Ariane 6.

REACTION ENGINES

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