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Embedded below the fold. I am sure that no one will be surprised that the focus was the Falcon 9 launchpad failure. Talked about other stuff though, including some of the neat planetary discoveries this week.
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Embedded below the fold. The phrase of the day: “Flight-Proven!”
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Embedded below the fold. Lots of new vaporware stories, plus some heroic engineering in the planetary program.
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Embedded below the fold. Batchelor’s title sums it up: “NASA Asteroid Vaporware. Roscosmos Lunar Vaporware.”
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Embedded below the fold. We discussed the journey of Curiosity of course. I also spent some time elaborating on some of the engineering advantages SpaceX has because of its success at vertically landing its Falcon 9 first stages.
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Embedded below the fold. Commercial space and planetary science, as usual, were the topics, with a focus on Curiosity’s upcoming journey (which shall get an update by tomorrow at the latest).
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Embedded below the fold. Lots of science. Lots of uncertain science. We then finish with a discussion of commercial smallsats and the politics of NASA.
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Embedded below the fold. I started with the Chinese and North Korean space programs, and ended up comparing them with the competitive and chaotic American system of private enterprise which is forcing down the cost of getting payloads into orbit while pushing the entire industry to greater innovation.
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Embedded below the fold. I like John Batchelor’s description of our discussion about NASA’s fantasy asteroid manned mission: “Vaporware.”
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Embedded below the fold. The main topic was Curiosity and its journey into rougher terrain as it climbs Mount Sharp.
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Embedded below the fold. I especially like the title that John Batchelor gave this segment: “Would you buy a used booster from SpaceX?”
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Embedded below the fold. John Batchelor was especially thrilled by the Curiosity image of the balanced rock.
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Embedded below the fold. Not only did we talk about Juno and other recent science news, we also discussed the absurd banning of Doug Messier from the NasaSpaceFlight.com website.
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Embedded below the fold. Lots of planetary science to start, followed by commercial space.
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Embedded below the fold. Batchelor’s title focuses on our Russian discussion, but I also talked about the Chinese space program, NASA’s proposed satellite refueling mission, and a whole bunch of recent planetary discoveries.
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Embedded below the fold. Not only did I get to describe my talk at CNAS in greater detail, but this week’s space stories tied into that talk perfectly!
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Embedded below the fold. This aired on Friday, but weekend activities caused me to forget to post it. Sorry.
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Embedded below the fold. I like Batchelor’s title: “The Leaning Tower of Musk.”
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