#88 - October 2019 Part 2

The Discussion: As a reward for good behavior, we’ve dispensed with wittering on about us and gone straight into the news.

The News: Rounding up the space exploration news this month we have:

• The last of the Delta IV mediums
• India’s Vikram lunar lander failure
• ESA move a satellite to avoid crashing with a SpaceX satellite
• NASA award funding for a Lunar Gateway pathfinding cubesat
• Australia & Japan commit to supporting NASA’s moonshot, Project Artemis
• NASA place orders for the first of possibly 12 Orion moon capsules.

Main news stories: A roundup of Elon Musk’s Herculean benevolent/malevolent efforts to get giant phalluses on Mars.

The Debate: Court is in session for the fifth and final round of advocacy to get a winner from your top ten historic space missions. This month Judge Damien presides over arguments between the International Space Station and the Pioneer missions.

Q&A: With the news of a near collision between a SpaceX and an ESA satellite, does that mean more satellite collisions in the future? From our good friend Noah Kraus in Bremen Germany.