The United Arab Emirates are making good progress in space exploration. Their Hope mission is orbiting Mars since 2021. Their Rashid rover is on its way to the Moon. They are also planning a mission to the Asteroid belt.

In this interview, I'm discussing UAE's current progress as well as future missions with Mohsen Al Alwahdi, the Director of the Space Missions Department at UAE Space Agency.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:50 UAE's Hope mission at Mars

• 03:22 Science goals and results

• 07:14 Current state of the spacecraft

• 10:17 Tech for future missions

• 14:02 Rashid Moon rover

• 15:11 Next missions

• 18:55 Outro

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We finally got JWST data about TRAPPIST-1. An Earth-sized rogue planet was found. More information about China’s plans for the Moon.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:13 JWST reveals Trappist-1 data
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/160716/finally-jwsts-data-on-the-first-trappist-1-planet-survey-says-it-sucks/

• 02:02 Kazakhstan Seizes Russia’s Facility at Baikonur
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/160720/kazakhstan-seizes-russias-launch-facility-at-baikonur/

• 03:53 Rogue Planets Found in Older Data
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/160695/a-rogue-earth-and-neptune-might-have-been-found-in-older-data/

• 05:55 China’s Moon Plans
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/160719/china-hints-at-its-goals-for-a-lunar-base/

• 07:50 Water in lunar Regolith
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/160723/china-beads-glass-moon-water/

• 09:46 3D Printing batteries on the Moon
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/160703/dont-take-batteries-to-the-moon-or-mars-3d-print-them-when-you-get-there/

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• 12:55 Europe's rotation
  
  

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• 14:54 Delays for Starliner and Vulcan

• 17:30 Outro

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In this interview, I'm talking with Theresa Benyo and Lawrence Forsley from NASA. They are authors of a Lattice Confinement Fusion Reactor that got a NIAC award this year. A reactor like this could help us melt through the ice on Europa and Enceladus and have other interesting applications in space missions.

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👉 More about the NIAC project; https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Accessing_Icy_World_Oceans/

• 00:00 Intro

• 02:30 How tough is Europa's ice

• 04:31 Lattice confinement fusion

• 14:43 How the probe will look like

• 22:54 What's next for the NIAC project

• 25:57 Other applications for the reactor

• 31:55 Where's the upper limit for the project

• 37:15 Going interstellar

• 41:10 Behind the scenes and additional questions

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Why don't we send microscopes on space probes to search for life? How do black holes even form? Can Chat GPT or similar systems help Astronomy? How will we use Starship when it starts to fly?

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• 00:00 Start

• 01:04 [Tatooine] How can black holes even exist?

• 04:43 [Coruscant] How to dock to a spinning space station?

• 08:12 [Hoth] Why not send microscopes on space probes?

• 11:18 [Naboo] Where's the green screen?

• 13:25 [Kamino] Why didn't Mars get a Moon like the Earth?

• 17:04 [Bespin] How hard is it to get interviews or talk with NASA?

• 21:32 [Mustafar] Can Chat GPT help Astronomy?

• 25:24 [Alderaan] Why don't we go under to the icy moons' subsurface oceans?

• 28:39 [Dagobah] What will drive public interest in space in the coming years?

• 31:43 [Yavin] How will we use Starship?

• 34:46 [Mandalore] How to travel faster than light?

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We know about thousands of exoplanets by now. But it's still a mystery, whether there are planets in the Alpha Centauri binary system, which is just next door to us. My guest today, Professor Peter Tuthill, is the Mission Leader for the TOLIMAN Telescope mission, which is designed to find those answers.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 01:29 Are there planets at Alpha Centauri

• 08:22 How can we know they are there

• 11:20 TOLIMAN Telescope

• 30:04 JWST experiments

• 37:34 Next big telescopes for planet hunting

• 48:38 Discovering many more exoplanets

• 51:50 Next generation of instruments

• 59:05 Outro

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iSpace reaches the Moon, Relativity Space’s 3D printed rocket fails to reach orbit, a mission will search for habitable worlds at Alpha Centauri.

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☄️ EARLY ACCESS: Searching for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri with the TOLIMAN Mission

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:14 iSpace at Moon Orbit. Landing Comes Next
  
  

  • https://www.ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=4460

• 02:27 Relativity Space Terran-1 Launch

• 05:18 More Science from DART
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/160683/another-look-at-the-aftermath-of-darts-impact-into-dimorphos/

• 07:02 Looking For Habitable Planets in Alpha Centauri
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/160625/a-new-mission-will-search-for-habitable-planets-at-alpha-centauri/

• 09:36 1,179 Previously Unknown Star Clusters
  
  

  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10380

• 11:21 Interviews

• 12:27 Moons Orbiting Rogue Planets Could be Habitable
  
  

  • https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7938315/news20230320

• 15:42 Mars Sunset by Ingenuity
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/160621/nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-sees-a-beautiful-sunset-on-mars/

• 17:08 Outro

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There are radio wavelengths that we can't see from Earth. And to observe them from space, we need a truly huge telescope. Mary Knapp and her team proposed a project that can allow us to build such a telescope and they just recently got a NIAC grant for it.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 01:20 Haystack Observatory

• 02:48 NIAC proposal for 100-km telescope

• 14:23 What Science Can the Telescope Do

• 30:36 New Approach to Space Telescopes

• 39:21 What's Next

• 41:55 Outro

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Scientists came up with a method to produce concrete on the Moon and Mars using potato starch. In this interview, I'm talking with Dr Aled Roberts, who is the Principle Investigator of this research.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 01:06 Building materials from biomaterials

• 07:06 Challenges of building on the Moon and Mars

• 10:20 From human blood to potato starch

• 19:02 How to implement the tech

• 26:46 DNA manipulation

• 32:36 Alternative applications

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Can we build star-tram-like launch facilities in space? What will JWST see next? Can red or brown dwarfs be the source of dark matter? Should SpaceX just be the only launch service for the USA so they can save money?

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• 00:00 Start

• 01:51 [Tatooine] Can we build star-tram-like launch facilities in space?

• 09:34 [Coruscant] Can red or brown dwarfs be the source of dark matter?

• 13:09 [Hoth] Can we see an Earth-sized planet orbiting a Sun-like star?

• 19:12 [Naboo] How to know JWST's plans?

• 21:37 [Kamino] How much more energy does it take to launch something in Nova Scotia versus the equator?

• 24:08 [Bespin] Will China own the Moon?

• 29:45 [Mustafar] Should SpaceX just be the only launch service for the USA?

• 31:39 [Alderaan] What would you ask to an alien if you meet one as a science reporter?

• 33:34 [Dagobah] Could a balloon on Venus use the temperature differences in the atmosphere for power?

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James Webb recently found six examples of galaxies that are too big too early. This discovery can significantly change our understanding of the early Universe. In this interview, I'm talking with Dr Joel Leja, who is a part of the team behind the research.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 01:35 What it's like using JWST

• 02:40 Universe-Breaking Galaxies

• 07:02 If true, how does it change Cosmology

• 13:52 How the research can be wrong

• 18:18 Community response

• 22:00 "Rewriting" Astronomy

• 27:09 Outro

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