TMRO:Space

In our space news roundtable this week we talk about NASA's unfunded Space Act Agreement with the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Exploding Magnetotails, mass extinction in Atacama due to rain and what that means for Mars, animal reaction to solar eclipses and NASA vs China in the race back to the moon.

The roundtable this week is run by Jared Head with Michael Clark, Sarah Vincent, Athena Brensberger, Jade Kim and Cariann Higginbotham.

Launch Minute:

Electron | It's Business Time

GSLV Mk III | GSAT-29

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Es'Hail-2

Soyuz-FG | Progress MS-10 / 71P

Antares 230 | Cygnus NG-10

We continue the round table format. Trying to tighten it up a bit but still make it conversational. This week we have Sarah Vincent, Michael Clark (in studio,) Benjamin Higginbotham, Cariann Higginbotham and Jared Head all leading the discussion. And of course YOU, the community of TMRO!

Launch Minute:

Soyuz | GLONASS

Soyuz | MetOp-C

Space News and Conversations:

Europa's Plumes Are Confusingly Cold

New research into Mars' perchlorates

Parker Solar Probe Completes Perihelion No. 1

Floods on Mars

SpaceX tests new recovery ship, spacesuits and simulators, and Elon teases mini-BFS

We tweaked the roundtable news format a bit. Still working on timing for this as clearly we're going suuuuuuuper long. But fun nonetheless. Lisa, Mike, Cariann, Jared and Benjamin nerd out over the latest comic happenings while interacting with the community! Would love your feedback and what we're doing right and wrong here.

Launch Minute:

Zhuque-1 | Weilai-1

Long March 2C | CFOSat

H-IIA | GOSAT-2

Long March 3B | Beidou-3 G1Q/GEO-1

Space News:

First 8K footage from space

Goodbye Dawn, Goodbye Kepler

Investigation completed on the Soyuz MS-10 launch failure

Science at 28163 km per hour - ISS Science Update

Yep, We've Got A Black Hole

This is the episode of the season where we have the ultimate answer to the life universe and everything! I had also been eager to try a new news format that was more round-table and conversational. Since there was no standard guest this week we made it happen! Let me know what you think in the comments. A bit long, but overall I liked it!

Launch Minute:

Soyuz 2.1B | Lotos-S1 | Kosmos-2528

Long March 4B | Haiyang 2B

Space News:

NASA is preparing for Hubble's return

This is your brain on space

NASA seeking Lunar Gateway Cargo Delivery

Hayabusa-2 prepares for Ryugu touchdown

Major first step for Pluto Orbiter Mission

First Image of Mars taken by a CubeSat

Virgin's LauncherOne and SpaceShipTwo edging closer to space

Mat Kaplan (@planrad) joins us to talk about the Planetary Society, LightSail 1, 2 and beyond. Jared and Mat dive deep in to why the Planetary Society matters and how it can impact you!

Launch Minute:

Long March 3B/YZ-1 Launches Beidou-3 M15 & M16

Atlas V launches AEHF-4

Ariane 5 launches BepiColombo

Space News:

Most massive and oldest blob of galaxies has been discovered

Rocket Lab building new launch pad at Wallops

Supernova time, but this one formed a BINARY

Dark Matter and Dark Energy make up over 80% of the universe and yet we still don't fully understand what they actually are. We are joined by Sophia Nasr AKA @Astropartigirl to talk about why dark matter is important to physics.

Launch Minutes:

Falcon 9 Launches SAOCOM 1A

Long March 2C Launches Yaogan 32

Crewed Soyuz suffers launch failure

Space News:

Hubble and Chandra vacation together

Air Force awards launch vehicle development contracts

Blackholes aren't dark enough

Want to take your event's wow factor up a notch? Astro Live Experiences (ALE) will soon be able to create on-demand shooting star shows as well as on-demand aurora. It's a new way of utilizing space for incredible art and entertainment. Added bonus, it helps grow the space industry via launches and infrastructure while also getting people talking!

Launch Minute:

No launches this last week :(

Space News:

MASCOT Landed and died on Ryugu

The Goblin pointing the way to Planet X

SLS rumors point to grim future

RNA liquid crystals could explain how life started on Earth

While Space Law may not sound super fun on the surface, it is one of those things that will directly impact our ability to explore the cosmos. Who is allowed to own what parts of space? What happens if someone is injured by your space debris? Space Law Advisor to the Secure World Foundation Chris Johnson joins us this week to talk over some of the things that the aerospace industry needs changed and maybe a few things you have never even thought of before!

Orbital Launches:

Ariane5’s 100th launch

Kuaizhou 1A rocket

Space News:

Differential rotation speeds observed in other stars

More Vulcan stuff.. but this time it’s a rocket

Martian moons' origin stories EXPOSED (kinda)

This week we have an epic panel to talk about the recent #dearMoon announcement including Tim Dodd the Everyday Astronaut, Emory "VaxHeadroom" Stagmer, Dr. Niamh Shaw and Astronaut Nicole Stott. We focus on the impact of the recent announcement by using a trip around the moon and art to inspire humanity in a totally new way.

We went in to a more technical discussion of BFR in After Dark and have made that available immediately to everyone here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z53XCV12z-A -- If you like content like that consider contributing to the show at https://www.patreon.com/tmro

Launch Minute:

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle - NovaStar-1 and SSTL S1-4

Long March 3B - Beidou navigation satellites C33 and C34

HII-B - HTV-7

Space News:

Astronomers discover planet like Vulcan!

JPL Troubleshooting Data Glitch on Curiosity

Giant net catches Cube Sat

Astroscale COO, Chris Blackerby, chats about the money to be made from space junk, and how we can leverage these space resources for the benefit of humanity.

Launch minute:

Falcon 9 | Telstar 18

Delta II | IceSat-2

Space News:

Orion completes final parachute test

SpaceX, NASA, and JAXA all have Lunar plans

Opportunity's 45 day clock begins ticking