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Space News | Reusable Spaceships and a mysterious Lunar lump

This week we bring you launches in a slightly updated format. A bit tweaked even from last week, let me know if that adds some of the excitement and fun back in.

In News this week ESA is working on a reusable spaceship that can rapidly bring back samples to Earth. There's also a mysterious lump on the Moon that may be made of materials we can use to build with. And of course Dr. Tamitha Skov brings us not only this weeks Space Weather but also a quick update on some beautiful clouds that the sun has been influencing.

https://youtu.be/KxbiYFqphrc

Space News | Starlink Launches, OmegA Anomaly and Plasma

We are back with a SLEW of launches this week! Trying a slightly modified launch format combining the best of Launch Minute with the flexibility of the current format. Needs a bit of love (especially the upcoming launches graphic) but hopefully you see the vision here.

In Space News this week, Northrup Grumman has an anomaly with their OmegA launcher on the ground and EXTREME Matter in Sun's Atmosphere! As always we close it out with Dr. Tamitha Skov bringing us this weeks Space Traffic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cwkmbgHGZc

Roundtable | NASA's Project Artemis and their plans to settle the moon

This week we have special guest Manju Bangalore along with Cariann, Jared and Jade return for our first round table in a while to talk about NASA"s plan to colonize the moon. We dive specifically in to their Project Artemis.

Since we didn't really cover it on the show, a bit about Manju. She used to work on the Orion Display systems at NASA's Johnson Space Center and is currently the founder and executive of Operation Period. We are hoping to make Maju a more regular host on the show!

https://youtu.be/UxOJN7IrG6Y

Space News | ISS Update and Pluto's Secret Ocean

There's a special contest happening this week, brought to us by NBC/Universal. For our US viewers, head out at night, snap a picture of the moon, tweet it with #KeepLookingUp and @TMRO to get entered to win one of a few different awesome prizes! https://twitter.com/tmro/status/1129813966991978496

This week in Space News we have:
- An ISS Update
- The Universe is expanding in a confusing way
- Pluto may have secret underground oceans
- Dr. Tamitha Skov brings us the latest Space Weather and Mars Minute

https://youtu.be/A_vE-SGT0jM

Open Source Space Suits - Orbit 12.18

Dr. Cameron Smith of Pacific Spaceflight joins us to talk about low cost, open source, custom built space suits. Why is this important? As we open the cosmos to more and more people, space suits will be one of the next things that enables our continued exploration.

https://youtu.be/yUXLyAnzKKI

Space News | Blue Origin's Lunar Lander and a Solar Storm is about to hit Earth

We accidentally missed a launch from Japan last week so we're covering it this week. And what a week it was! Blue unveiled their lunar ambitions, ULA is prepping to test re-entry heat shield tech with NASA and we found out that the moon is shrinking! As always Dr. Tamitha Skov joins us to talk about our local star, and what an update it is -- A solar storm is heading right toward Earth!
https://youtu.be/BI6KbZLfYzg

Open Education for working in Space - Orbit 12.17

Ever want to work for an aerospace company but think you don't have what it takes? Think again! This week we're joined by Cody James who is the founder of OpenX Education, a company making STEM education accessible and affordable. Cody James was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 2017 in Manufacturing and Industry. He is a self taught programmer and worked in Boeing's Advanced Developmental Composites team as their youngest Robotics programmer ever.
https://youtu.be/O5oq5Y1yBno

#Space News | SpaceX Starlink updates, a Metallic Universe and a very active sun! In this weeks Space News from TMRO we start off with three launches: Blue Origin, SpaceX and Rocket Lab. Jared brings us an update on the SpaceX Starlink constellation and Jade talk about a very metallic universe! Our local sun has been very active this last week and Dr. Tamitha Skov bring us the latest space weather report.

https://youtu.be/qPEqN2e6Jh4

Small rapid reusable rockets - Orbit 12.16

Exos Aerospace's COO John Quinn joins us to talk how rapidly reusable rockets could send experiments to space and have them back in scientists hands in just hours - leading to big advancements in medicine and research.

https://youtu.be/1VCcGGuQjY8

How we measure the magnetism of Mars and Jupiter - Orbit 12.15

NASA's MAVEN Magnetometer Instrument Lead Dr. Jared Espley joins us to talk about MAVEN, Juno and how we measure the magnetism of planets in our local system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5d7FEcLzDQ

Space News | Boeing Satellite Anomaly, SpaceX Dragon Anomaly and Missing Dark Matter

Space X Suffers a catastrophic anomaly of the Crew Dragon spaceship while in an un-crewed test on the ground. A Boeing satellite also suffers a catastrophic failure after only a couple years of service. And some galaxies seem to be missing their dark matter!

As always we also have your Local System Traffic and Weather!

Crew Dragon Anomaly image in thumbnail is from Craig Bailey / Florida Today.

https://youtu.be/ire2-S9bZjs

How we see more of the Universe - Orbit 12.14

This week we bring on Dr. Jielai Zhang to talk about Dragonfly Telephoto Array, its unique capabilities, why it was needed and what they have found or hope to find out so far. We also cover the role of astronomy as a gateway field to STEM and the West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers program. https://youtu.be/5SceJ7-2tQE

Space News | Beresheet Impact, Falcon Heavy Tips Over, Stratolaunch and Black Holes

A lot of stuff happened in our local system this week! In Traffic the Beresheet suffered a rapid unintended kinetic disassembly and Falcon Heavy launched, landed and then the center core tipped over.

In news: The Stratolaunch Carrier Aircraft took to the skies and we get to see the image of a black hole for the first time!

As always we wrap the show up with space weather.

https://youtu.be/P1TvI9JEffc

Space News | NASA wants to send humans back to the moon in 5 years

Sorry this is later than normal, but we had a lot going on and I wanted to get it in the show. This week we have NASA's plans to send humans back to the moon in 5 years. Will it be on SLS or a commercial rocket?

Asteroid Bennu looks to be a lot more complex than originally thought, and that may spell trouble for OSIRIS-REx.

And what is the latest way that space wants to kill you? Superbugs!

In Traffic this week we had: Vega rocket with PRISMA OneWeb OS-M launch with Cubesats Electron launch with R3D2

And as always we close out our show with the latest Space Weather from Dr. Tamitha Skov.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TWm9tKGcNY&feature=youtu.be

The Uber of Space - Orbit 12.10

Momentus is building the in-space equivalent of the connecting flight. Use a big rocket to fly to a common orbit on a cheap rideshare, then use their in-space rocket to get your satellite to any custom orbit 10 times cheaper than what has ever been possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asifwT74HMw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4P4HSHQHXA

What a great week for us space nerds! A lot happened and we have some special hosts this week to help us cover it all.

Space Traffic: 00:10 Soyuz launches OneWeb Satellites 01:22 SpaceX launches DM-1 to the International Space Station

Space News: 05:02 A Busy Galactic Core 07:47 Sunscreen for the Moon 10:20 Earth's Overachieving Atmosphere

13:41 Space Weather

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