Tag: radio

Embedded below the fold. Like Tuesday, we taped two 18 minute segments, the one below that aired tonight, and the second which will air tomorrow. Tonight’s podcast focused on discussing the problems experienced by Juno and Schiaparelli.
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Embedded below the fold. Rather than do a 38 minute segment tonight, we taped two segments, 18 and 20 minutes, with the one below aired tonight and the second to be aired tomorrow.
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Embedded below the fold. Once again we did a double podcast, 39 minutes long, and spent a lot of time talking about Obama’s empty Mars announcement today.
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Embedded below the fold. Besides discussing Blue Origin’s successful test flight, we also discussed NASA’s future plans for Curiosity.

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Embedded below the fold. This was another double-length 39 minute appearance.
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Embedded below the fold. Spent a lot of time talking about the Russian Sea Launch deal and the Sierra Nevada UN deal, as well as the Mars rovers.
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Embedded below the fold. This was another double length appearance lasting 39 minutes. Talked about a lot of commercial space stuff, including Musk’s speech.
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Embedded below the fold. This was another 40 minute extended appearance, four segments covering planetary science, commercial space (two segments), and the politics of climate science.
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Embedded below the fold. Tonight was a special double podcast, lasting almost 40 minutes. The first segment looks at the September 1 SpaceX launchpad situation, the second segment looks at Blue Origin and its new proposed rocket, the third segment looks at the state of Virgin Galactic and the Russian space industry as well as the Mars rovers, and the last segment looks at Mars, the Moon, earthquakes, and the coming end of Rosetta.
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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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