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Firefly Makes Orbit on Second Try

Oct 5, 2022 | Asteroids, Conferences, Daily Space, DART, Earth, Europa, Galaxies, Guest Interview, ISRO, Jupiter, Rockets, Spacecraft

Early Saturday morning, another company entered the exclusive club of successful orbital launchers, Firefly Aerospace, when their second attempt to reach orbit, named To The Black, lifted off on October 1. Plus, a crater in Spain, a new DART image, Juno flies by Europa, and an interview with Jochen Grandell regarding the Meteosat program.

SEASON PREMIERE: Catching up on news and rockets!

Sep 7, 2022 | Artemis, Blue Origin, Cosmology, Crewed Space, Daily Space, ESA, Exoplanets, Galaxies, ISRO, Jupiter, JWST, Mars, Mars 2020, Perseverance, Rocket Lab, Rockets, Space China, Space Policy, SpaceX, Starlink, Stars, The Sun

As we return from our summer hiatus, we are back with a rundown of some of the stories that came out during the break. On the planetary front, JWST has been taking amazing images and learning about exoplanets. On the astrophysics front, we’ve got stories on dark matter and Betelgeuse. And there were thirty orbital launches, including a whole lot of Starlinks… but not including Artemis.

Comet Storm Due in One Million Years

Jul 4, 2022 | Asteroids, Comets, Crewed Space, Earth, ISRO, Neptune, Our Solar System, Review, Rockets, Science, Uranus

A star cataloged as Gliese 781 is approaching our solar system and in slightly more than a million years from now, will reach the Oort Cloud, likely disrupting the orbits of icy bodies that could head toward Earth. Plus, an Indian launch, Asteroid Day, understanding our ice giants, and a review of Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi.

Space Junk Hitting the Moon is not From SpaceX

Feb 16, 2022 | Asteroids, Daily Space, Earth, Exoplanets, Guest Interview, ISRO, ROSCOSMOS, Space China, Spacecraft, SpaceX

Observers tracking a piece of space debris that is expected to impact the far side of the Moon early in March have now corrected the origin of the object, which isn’t from SpaceX but is from a Chinese Long March 3B involved in the Chang’e 5TI mission. Plus, asteroid 16 Pysche, craters in Wyoming, more launches, and an interview with Katharine Hesse from the TESS mission.

Rocket Roundup for August 18, 2021

Aug 19, 2021 | Crewed Space, Daily Space, ISRO, Random Space Fact, Rockets, Space History, Space Policy, Spacecraft, Vega

On this week’s Rocket Roundup, an ISRO rocket fails and Arianespace launches a big satellite. Plus, Boeing can’t seem to get their act together. And this week in rocket history, we look back at the first mission to explore all of the outer planets – Voyager 2.

Rocket Roundup for March 3, 2021

Mar 4, 2021 | ISRO, Mars 2020, Moon, Perseverance, Random Space Fact, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Soyuz, Space China, Space History

Join us for this week’s Rocket Roundup with host Annie Wilson as we look back at the launches that happened over the last week, including international launches from China, India, and Russia. Plus, we look back at Beresheet, the ill-fated lander that launched on February 22, 2019.