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.
Feb 25, 2021 | Daily Space, Random Space Fact, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Starlink, Stars
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 two ISS resupply missions and Yet Another Starlink (with bonus booster landing fail). Plus, we look back at the Friendship 7 mission, which launched back on February 20th, 1962.
Feb 17, 2021 | Astrobiology, Daily Space, ESA, Exoplanets, Galaxies, KBOs, Mars, Nebulae, Sky Watching
A newly found object nearly four times farther out from the Sun than Pluto now holds the record for the farthest observed in our solar system. Plus, forming super-Earths, finding potentially habitable planets, jellyfish galaxies, the Crab Nebula, and this week’s What’s Up.
Feb 11, 2021 | Comets, Daily Space, Mars, Mars 2020, Random Space Fact, Space China, Space History, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Starlink
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 Yet Another Starlink and a surprise Chinese launch. Plus, updates on all those arriving Mars missions.
Feb 4, 2021 | Agencies, Daily Space, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Soyuz, Space China, Space History, Space Policy, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Starlink
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 that one grain silo that popped up over Boca Chica, Texas yesterday.
Feb 3, 2021 | Daily Space, Dark Matter, Galaxies, Guest Interview, JAXA, Jupiter, Mars, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Stars
A radio-loud magnetar first observed in March 2020 suffered an apparent identity crisis, behaving like a pulsar until gradually settling into magnetar-like emissions in July. Plus, Mars’ moon Phobos, Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, and an interview with SETI Institute scientist Veselin Kostov about last week’s sextuple star system.