TMRO:Space

Lisa Tatge, Subsystem Engineer on the Spacecraft Operations Team for the Cassini Mission to Saturn joins us for an incredible interview about the Cassini mission and it’s upcoming Grand Finale.

In Space News:

* WFIRST set for 2025 Launch, $3.2Billion Budget

* Commercial Crew Q1 Progress Updates

* First Detailed Images of a Star’s Accretion Disk from ALMA

* French Guiana to resume launches

* The Event Horizon Telescope will soon produce an image

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Natalya Bailey the Founder & CEO of Accion Systems joins us to talk about their very small yet incredibly powerful take on Ion thrusters. As these get closer to their theoretical maximum thrust, just a couple of the tiny units could perform all of the ISS station keeping needs! Or even send humans to Mars!

In Space News:* Potential habitability in Europa and Enceladus* Update on French Guiana Blockade* Atlas V aims for Tuesday Cygnus launch* NASA presents Deep Space Gateway and more SLS missions* Mars InSight seismometer passes major test

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Natalya Bailey the Founder & CEO of Accion Systems joins us to talk about their very small yet incredibly powerful take on Ion thrusters. As these get closer to their theoretical maximum thrust, just a couple of the tiny units could perform all of the ISS station keeping needs! Or even send humans to Mars!

In Space News:

* Potential habitability in Europa and Enceladus

* Update on French Guiana Blockade

* Atlas V aims for Tuesday Cygnus launch

* NASA presents Deep Space Gateway and more SLS missions

* Mars InSight seismometer passes major test

TMRO:Space is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information, goals and reward levels.

CEO of Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit joins to talk about their plans for suborbital flights, orbital payloads and touches on point to point travel around the planet.

 

In Space News:

Falcon 9 SES-10 re-launch and re-landing

Juno flies over Jupiter clouds on fourth science pass

Spacewalkers improvise after fabric shield floats away

Twin solid rockets set for Endeavour display

Europe’s ExoMars Orbiter to begin lowering orbit

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CEO of Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit joins to talk about their plans for suborbital flights, orbital payloads and touches on point to point travel around the planet.

In Space News:

Falcon 9 SES-10 re-launch and re-landing

Juno flies over Jupiter clouds on fourth science pass

Spacewalkers improvise after fabric shield floats away

Twin solid rockets set for Endeavour display

Europe’s ExoMars Orbiter to begin lowering orbit

TMRO:Space is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information, goals and reward levels.

Cariann talks to Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, Co-founder of Yuri’s Night, and host of Yuri’s Night L.A. In Space News: * Launches from Krorou suspended by social unrest * SpaceX to reuse CRS-8 booster this week * China wants to reuse rockets too * Laser Communication Relay Demonstration * Changes on 67P observed by Rosetta * Spacewalks on ISS TMRO:Space is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information, goals and reward levels. Don’t forget to check out our SpacePod campaign as well over at http://www.patreon.com/spacepod

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Cariann talks to José Mariano López-Urdiales, CEO of Zero 2 Infinity (OIIOO) about their recent rocket launch success from a high-altitude balloon. In Space News: Russia is going to the moon! Trump Budget Blueprint focuses on deep space TMRO:Space is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information, goals and reward levels. Don’t forget to check out our SpacePod campaign as well over at http://www.patreon.com/spacepod

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Dr. Anita Sengupta, Project Manager, JPL Cold Atom Laboratory joins us to talk about their experiment being sent to the International Space Station. We cover why creating the coldest point in the universe could be the key to unlocking the mysteries of quantum mechanics. In Space News: * Blue Origin details New Glenn launcher and customers * House passes NASA authorization bill * Volcanic hydrogen spurs chances of finding life * Orbital ATK expects decision on new rocket by early 2018 * GOES-16 beams back first lightning mapper imagery TMRO:Space is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information, goals and reward levels. Don’t forget to check out our SpacePod campaign as well over at http://www.patreon.com/spacepod

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Tory Bruno the CEO of United Launch Alliance joins us to talk about the future of humans in space. The new Vulcan rocket, ACES upper stage and CisLunar 1000 are just a few of the topic we cover. Tory lays out an amazing vision with thousands of humans living and working in space. In Space News: * SpaceX announces plans to send two people around the moon next year * Blue Origin may have lunar ambitions too * Autonomous Flight Safety System * Virgin Orbit TMRO:Space is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information, goals and reward levels. Don’t forget to check out our SpacePod campaign as well over at http://www.patreon.com/spacepod

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