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Rocket Roundup for October 14, 2020

Oct 14, 2020 | Daily Space, Rockets, Space China, SpaceX, Starlink

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript First up: On Saturday, October 3rd at 01:16 UTC, a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched the Cygnus NG-14 mission from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops, Virginia. This was the fifteenth...

Death by Spaghettification!

Oct 13, 2020 | Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Daily Space, Gemini South, Observatories, OSIRIS-REx, Stars, Supermassive Black Holes

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript There are certain words that are simply pleasing. They are a combination of sounds and mouth movements that just feel good. Arugula. I, for one, am fond of the word arugula even if I’m not entirely fond of...

Planetary Pandemonium: Double Dose

Oct 9, 2020 | Asteroids, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Jupiter, Our Solar System, Titan, Venus

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Well, it’s been a wild couple of weeks, hasn’t it? I don’t have a lot more to say about my friend and colleague Paranor that hasn’t already been said. He was a huge supporter of me and my work and kept me...

Stars and Planets May Grow Up Together!

Oct 9, 2020 | Daily Space, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Observatories, Planetary Nebulae, Planets, Star Forming Region

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Today’s science is largely science that has resisted being understood: it’s the science of how star systems form and change the substance of the universe. At the most basic level, we struggle with questions...

Rocket Roundup for October 7, 2020

Oct 7, 2020 | Daily Space, Rockets, Space China

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript First up, on September 27th at 03:23 UTC, China launched two environmental observation satellites onboard a Long March-4B. CREDIT: CAST Huanjing-2A and 2B were sent to orbit from Launch Complex 9 in Taiyuan...