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827: The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope with Dr. Ashish Goel
Dr. Ashish Goel is a Research Technologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Robotic Surface Mobility group. He has helped develop the pla…
4 years, 4 months ago
829: HUGE Upcoming Meteor Storm?, Starliner Success, Nova in Real Time | Space Bites
In this week's News Bites segment, I talk about the successful launch of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner, how astronomers watch a nova unfold in real ti…
4 years, 4 months ago
825: Going Back to Venus with Michael Amato
Michael Amato is an engineer at NASA and has been a member of the team behind NASA's DAVINCI spacecraft which will be launching to Venus in 2029. The…
4 years, 4 months ago
824: Cynicism VS Wisdom, How Big Do Black Holes Grow, Sky on Mars | Q&A 184
In this week's episode, I talk about how close to the Sun Parker Solar Probe can get, what is the smallest possible star that's turned into a red gia…
4 years, 4 months ago
823: Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole by EHT, Russia's ISS Bluff, Ingenuity's Problems | Space Bites
We finally have the SgrA* supermassive black hole image by the Event Horizon Telescope, China announces their plans to launch a space telescope, and …
4 years, 4 months ago
820: Fluidic Space Telescopes with Dr. Edward Balaban
Edward Balaban is a research scientist at NASA Ames and the principal investigator of the Fluidic Telescope Experiment, or FLUTE. The idea is to crea…
4 years, 4 months ago
822: Elon Musk's Tesla in Space, Can We Get Better Rocket Fuel, Space Structures | Q&A 183
In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain why we don't see much stuff in space unfolding in real time, how long will Musk's Tesla be a rec…
4 years, 4 months ago
821: Dealing with Lunar Regolith with Dr. Kevin Cannon
Dr. Kevin Cannon is an assistant professor of geology and geological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Cannon has been studying the pr…
4 years, 4 months ago
819: Schrodinger's Catch by Rocket Lab, Photon Ring of a Black Hole, Micronovae | Space Bites
Rocket Lab almost catches their Electron booster with a helicopter, China building an asteroid redirection mission, NASA gives out awards and astrono…
4 years, 4 months ago
818: Going Under the Ice with Dr. Samuel Howell
My guest today is Dr. Sam Howell, a planetary scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Sam studies the interiors of icy worlds, like Europa a…
4 years, 4 months ago