TMRO:Space

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In this episode we talk about Small Sats. What are they? Why does the industry care and what is the future of Small Sats in space?

In Space News we have:

* Long March 3B launch of Tiantong 1

* Long March 4C launch of Gaofen 3

* NextSTEP program begins phase 2

* Kepler Finds Tabby’s Star is Mysteriously Dimming

* HDR SRB Camera test

* HTV delay means extra EVA

* Cassini Finds Flooded Canyon’s on Saturn’s Moon Titan

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This week, TMRO correspondent Lisa Stojanovski chats to NASA’s Mars 2020 Program Scientist, Mitchell Schulte, about NASA’s next Mars rover.

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Lisa Stojanovski interviews some of Australia’s major space players during the Final Frontier Festival in Melbourne, Australia. Even without a space agency, Australian’s are sending school students code to the International Space Station, building pocket-sized satellites in their garage, and brewing space beer.

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In our final episode before our July hiatus we look at the International Space Station and the desire to extend its life to 2024. While many ISS partners are on board with extending its life, ESA has not yet committed. What does this mean for the future of station?

In Space News we have:

* New Shepard Flight 4

* PSLV Launch

* Atlas V Launch

* Long March 7 Launch

* Juno July 4th rendezvous with Jupiter

* How Brexit may affect UK space participation

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For the first time Blue Origin will be webcasting one of their experimental vehicle launches. This got us to thinking, what have they been working on in the past and what does that mean for the future of Blue Origin? Will they be heading to the Moon? Mars? Or just playing catchup to SpaceX? To be clear, this is all speculation and guesses. What do you think?

In Space News we have:

* China launches another Beidou Navigation Satellite

* SpaceX launches, but fails to land

* Gravitational Waves Detected from Second Pair of Coalescing Black Holes

* Blue Origin to Webcast New Shepard Flight on Sunday Morning

* The Return of Antares has slipped to August

* Soyuz TMA-19M lands

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This week, Space Mike discusses the compromise regarding the Russian made RD-180 engines used on the Atlas V rocket for U.S. National Security Payloads, as well as the final mission phase for a Cygnus spacecraft in orbit right now.

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This week we try something new and have Jared Head out at Large Dangerous Rocket Ships or LDRS35. Unfortunately bandwidth wasn’t behaving and some sections of the interview are hard to hear. We have opted to leave it all in place and will work on adding closed captioning to help.

Overall I think it was a nice break from the norm and want to do more segments like this. We will work on making the technology play a bit nicer as well as find a way to feed the chat room back.

In Space News we have:

* Proton launch with Intelsat 31/DLA-2 communications satellite

* First new Proton launch suffers anomaly, still delivers as planned

* Delta IV Heavy launches with NRO Payload

* Firefly Aerospike Engine Test

* NASA exploring additional cooperation with SpaceX’s Red Dragon mission

* BEAM welcomes first astronauts

* Blue Origin joins NASA’s suborbital research flight program

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TMRO correspondent Lisa Stojanovski does a ‘show and tell’ of International Space Station food, and food that might be grown on Mars.

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Earlier this week Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX was at the ReCode conference talking about many things. One of those was a hint at what the SpaceX Mars architecture will start to look like. We listen to a small snippet of that conference and discuss. You can watch the full interview here.

In Space News we have:

* Russia deploys another GLONASS-M spacecraft via Soyuz 2-1B launch

* Long March 4B lofts Earth-viewing satellites for China, Argentina

* Russian Rokot launches Geo-IK-2

* Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket completes static fire

* Record double-satellite payload mated to Ariane 5 for launch next week

* New Soyuz Spacecraft first launch may be delayed

* Did the young Sun steal Planet 10 from another star?

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This week, SpaceMike asks, now that SpaceX has four landed Falcon 9 first stages, what are they going to do with them?

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