Rocket Roundup for September 2, 2020

Rocket Roundup for September 2, 2020

Join us for this week’s Rocket Roundup with host Annie Wilson as we look back at the launches from the past week: SpaceX managed to pull off one of their two planned launches, and Rocket Lab finally got their fourteenth launch off the ground.

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Mission updates: Arecibo suffers damage, OSIRIS-Rex performs final rehearsal, TESS completes primary mission, plus guest Kynan Hughson talks Ceres

Mission updates: Arecibo suffers damage, OSIRIS-Rex performs final rehearsal, TESS completes primary mission, plus guest Kynan Hughson talks Ceres

Join us today as we share some mission updates, good and bad. The bad: Arecibo Observatory suffered damage from a snapped cable. The good: OSIRIS-Rex performed a final dress rehearsal for taking a sample of Bennu and NASA’s TESS finished its primary mission. Plus, we’re joined by postdoc Kynan Hughson to talk about this week’s Ceres news!

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