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Old Falcon 9 Stage Reenters Over Mexico

Feb 14, 2022 | Asteroids, Book Club, Daily Space, Exoplanets, JWST, Review, Rockets, Soyuz, Spacecraft, SpaceX, White Dwarfs

The second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket launched in 2017 re-entered the atmosphere over Mexico, breaking up and creating a show of fiery lights in the sky. Plus, dead stars with possibly living planets, more on moon formation, more launches, more launch failures, and a review of “The Apollo Murders” by Chris Hadfield.

Mars Could Have Supported Life Longer Than Thought

Feb 9, 2022 | Daily Space, Galaxies, Guest Interview, Mars, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Saturn, Soyuz, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Starlink, The Sun

A NASA-funded simulation of early Mars revealed that the climate three billion years ago on the red planet was very similar to Earth now, with a stable ocean in the northern hemisphere. This new timeline would have given life another 500 million years to develop. Plus, a dwarf galaxy, Saturn’s aurorae, a Soyuz launch, and an interview with Dr. Adam Szabo, mission scientist for the Parker Solar Probe.

Rocket Roundup for January 5, 2022

Jan 6, 2022 | Blue Origin, Crewed Space, Curiosity, Daily Space, JWST, Perseverance, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Soyuz, Space China, SpaceX, Starlink

The Rocket Roundup team takes a look back at the rockets that launched in 2021, with a review of the statistics and some highlights (including that one telescope that could have ruined Christmas).

Q-balls Knock Matter Into Dominance Over Antimatter After Big Bang

Dec 10, 2021 | Asteroids, Cosmology, Crewed Space, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Gemini South, Guest Interview, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Sky Watching, Soyuz, Spacecraft, Very Large Array

Researchers hypothesize that blobs in post-Big Bang fields of energy, known as Q-balls, could explain how matter came to dominate over antimatter in our Universe, and they plan to use gravitational waves to find their evidence. Plus, a crewed launch to the ISS features Japanese tourists, NASA selects the latest astronaut class, and What’s Up is the Geminids.

Rocket Roundup for December 8, 2021

Dec 9, 2021 | Daily Space, Random Space Fact, Rockets, Soyuz, Space China, Space History, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Starlink

In this week’s Rocket Roundup, we have more Starlink, European navigation satellites, a Chinese company launching to orbit again, a large U.S. government satellite, and a sounding rocket from Sweden. Plus, this week in rocket history, we look back at Little Joe 2.

Rocket Roundup for December 1, 2021

Dec 2, 2021 | Asteroids, Daily Space, Jupiter, Random Space Fact, Rockets, Soyuz, Space China, Space History, Spacecraft, SpaceX

During this jam-packed episode of Rocket Roundup, we cover several Chinese launches, SpaceX’s launch of NASA’s DART mission to hit an asteroid, and Russia’s launch of a military satellite. Plus, this week in rocket history, we look back at Pioneer 10’s encounter with Jupiter.