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Rocket Roundup for January 6, 2021: Year in Review

Jan 7, 2021 | Asteroids, Crewed Space, Curiosity, Daily Space, JAXA, Mars, OSIRIS-REx, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Rovers, Soyuz, Space China, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Uncategorized

Join us for this week’s Rocket Roundup with host Annie Wilson as we look back at the launches and missions that happened last year, including test flights and first flights, mission launches and discoveries, and all the people in space (and their zero-gravity indicators). Plus space toilets.

Hawaii’s Kīlauea Volcano Wakes Up with Quake, Eruption

Dec 22, 2020 | Asteroids, Comets, Daily Space, Earth, JAXA, Jupiter, Observatories, Saturn, Science

USGS volcanologists and seismologists have been working around the clock to collect data on Kīlauea’s latest eruption after two years of dormancy. Plus, all the volcano news you can handle, as well as a meteorite, an asteroid, and a comet, oh my!

Current Neptunian Storm Reverses Direction and Sheds Fragment

Dec 18, 2020 | Asteroids, Brown Dwarf, Daily Space, Earth, Exoplanets, JAXA, Jupiter, Neptune, Planets, Saturn, Sky Watching, Space China, The Sun

Scientists using Hubble to track storms on Neptune found that a current storm has reversed direction and possibly shed a fragment. Plus, an update on Hayabusa2’s sample return, a non-technological radio emission from an exoplanet, This Week in Sky Watching, and more!

Strange Exoplanet Could Be Similar to Theoretical Planet 9

Dec 16, 2020 | Asteroids, Astrobiology, Book Club, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Guest Interview, JAXA, Jupiter, Mars, Our Solar System, Planets, Science, Sky Watching, Uranus

HD 106906 b is an exoplanet 336 light-years away, 11 times the size of Jupiter, and possibly an analog of our own not-yet-discovered Planet 9. Plus, a large body of water ice has been discovered on Mars, and we interview lead author Dan Berman of the Planetary Science Institute. Also included, stories on Jupiter, Uranus’s moons, a young galaxy, and how space weather impacts habitability.

Inouye Solar Telescope Releases First Image of a Sunspot

Dec 8, 2020 | Asteroids, Astrobiology, Daily Space, JAXA, Moon, Physics, Space China, Space History, The Sun

The first sunspot image released by the not-yet-completed Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is highly detailed and a sample of the images to come. Plus, all the sample return missions, how the Sun bends light, and building blocks for organic molecules found in meteorites.

Rocket Roundup for December 2, 2020

Dec 3, 2020 | Daily Space, JAXA, Rockets, Soyuz, Space China, Spacecraft

Join us for this week’s Rocket Roundup with host Annie Wilson as we look back at the launches that happened from the past week, including a Japanese launch and, finally, the Falcon Eye 2 launch for the UAE. Plus an update on Chang’e 5 lunar lander!