To listen to SpaceTime on your favorite App automatically: https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 135 *NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Titan Dragonfly is a NASA mission to explore the chemistry and habitability of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. *Hubble Space Telescope back online NASA’s Earth orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is partially back on line after mission managers successfully recovered the observatory’s Advanced...
Nov 26, 2021•22 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 134 *DAVINCI mission to study Venus NASA’s DAVINCI -- Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry and Imaging mission will launch in 2029. *Evidence of an exploding comet discovered in Chile A new study has revealed that slabs of silicate glass covering the ground in Chile’s Atacama Desert were caused by a comet. *Ingenuity undertakes its 15th flight on Mars NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter h...
Nov 24, 2021•25 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. To listen to SpaceTime on your favorite App: https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 133 *Russia slammed for anti-satellite missile test Russia has been condemned by nations around the world for conducting an anti-satellite missile test which not only threatened the International Space Station and its crew – but has produced a growing cloud of shrapnel and debris that will remain a threat to space navigation for deca...
Nov 22, 2021•33 min
To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial-free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version also now available via Spotify and Apple Podcasts. To listen to SpaceTime on your favorite App automatically: https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 132 *A huge pile of new gravitational-wave detections Scientists have announced another 35 ...
Nov 19, 2021•18 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 131 *Unlocking the secrets of star formation Astronomers have discovered unusual structures in the western wall of the spectacular Carina Nebula. *Lucy mission continues with crippled solar array Mission managers are still trying to work out how to fix a jammed solar array on the Lucy spacecraft which is on a 12 year mission to study Jupiters trojan asteroids. *China launches more spy satellites China has laun...
Nov 17, 2021•22 min
To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version now available via Spotify and Apple Podcasts. The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 130 *Mystery signals from the galactic centre Astronomers have discovered mysterious signals coming from the direction of the galactic centre of the Milky Way. *Another asteroid’s close fl...
Nov 15, 2021•33 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 129 *Starliner test flight delayed till next year Boeing says its troubled CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will now undertake an unmanned test flight to the International Space Station in the first half of next year. *Laser communications system about to launch NASA are about to launch a new optical laser communications system. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration will fly aboard a United Launch Alliance ...
Nov 12, 2021•21 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 128 *Hubble Space Telescope moves into safe mode The iconic Hubble Space Telescope is back in Safe Mode today after the Earth orbiting observatory suddenly issued a series of error codes suspending all science operations. *Getting ready to launch the James Webb Space Telescope All systems are go for next month’s launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The six and a half tonne observatory is slated to laun...
Nov 10, 2021•25 min
To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version now available via Spotify. The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 127 *Discovery of the origins of ‘empty sky’ gamma-rays A new study has confirmed that star-forming galaxies are responsible for generating the majority of empty sky gamma-rays -- the origins of which have b...
Nov 08, 2021•32 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime 20211105 Series 24 Episode 126 *Study suggests the earth tipped over 84 million years ago A new study suggests the Earth tipped on its side 84 million years ago. The phenomenon known as true polar wander tilts planets relative to their spin axis causing the geographic locations of the north and south poles to change, or "wander". *NASA calls for new players to fly crew to the space station The ongoing problems with Boeing’s CST...
Nov 05, 2021•31 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 125 *The early solar system harboured a gap between its inner and outer regions Astronomers have discovered an ancient gap in the protoplanetary disk which coalesced to form our solar system 4.6 billion years ago. *Growing calls for a manned scientific base on the Moon A meeting of 350 astronomers and gravitational wave scientists have agreed to support proposals to develop a manned scientific observatory on t...
Nov 03, 2021•24 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 124 *Astronomers see white dwarf “switch on and off” for first time Astronomers have for the first time seen a white dwarf star appear to abruptly switch off and then on again. *A new study looks at the deep roots of Australian geology A new study has shown for the first time that the Australian land mass is made up of different building blocks that fused together over 1.3 billion years ago. *Blue Origin annou...
Nov 01, 2021•27 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 123 *The Large Magellanic Cloud cannibalizing smaller galaxies Scientists have confirmed that the Large Magellanic Cloud has been cannibalizing smaller galaxies. Astronomers already knew that large galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with or cannibalizing smaller galaxies. But now a report in the journal Nature has shown that a small satellite dwarf galaxy like the Large Magellanic Cloud has in turn ab...
Oct 29, 2021•17 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 122 *Problems as Lucy launches to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids Lucy mission managers are still trying to determine the full extent of the problem with the spacecraft after one of the solar arrays failed to deploy properly following launch. Telemetry from the 1500 kilogram probe suggest that only one of the two solar arrays fully unfurled and latched -- the second array partially opening but failing to lock...
Oct 27, 2021•31 min
SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 118, 119, and 120 w/c OCTOBER 25 2021 To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version now available via Spotify. The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 121 *Lunar volcanic activity lasted longer than thought The moon may have been volcanically active far longer than previously thought. A seri...
Oct 25, 2021•26 min
To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version now available via Spotify. The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime 20211022 Series 24 Episode 120 *The floor of Jezero Crater shows signs of sustained interactions with water Since the Perseverance rover landed in the red planet’s Jezero crater back in February, the rover and its team of sci...
Oct 22, 2021•21 min
To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version now available via Spotify. The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 119 *Earth’s solid inner core could be mushy A new study suggests that the Earth’s inner core might be mushy rather than solid. Data based on seismic readings going back to the 1950s indicates the planet’s c...
Oct 20, 2021•18 min
To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version now available via Spotify. The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 118 *Plans announced for an Aussie lunar rover NASA has asked the Australian Space Agency to develop a robotic rover to find, study and transport regolith on the lunar surface. *Astronomers conduct a superno...
Oct 18, 2021•39 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 117 *Hubble shows winds in Jupiter's great red spot are speeding up A new study based on images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows that winds near the edge of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot are accelerating. *NASA’s deep space atomic clock completes its mission NASA says its experimental deep space atomic clock has now completed its mission. *Dragon returns to Earth A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship has safely sp...
Oct 15, 2021•19 min
SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 116 The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. *NASA Selects four new deep space missions NASA has selected four new deep space missions for further development as part of its Discovery Program exploring the solar system. *First planet found to orbit 3 stars Astronomers think they may have discovered a planet that’s orbiting three stars. The triple star system called GW Orionis, is located some 1312 light-years away in the constellation of Orion. *Ligh...
Oct 13, 2021•27 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 115 *All systems go for the launch of LUCY’s mission to the Trojan asteroids Mission managers at NASA say all systems are go for this week’s launch of the LUCY spacecraft which will explore Jupiter’s mysterious Trojan asteroids. *Binar-1 now in orbit Curtin University’s Binar-1 spacecraft has been released into orbit from the International Space Station. *Say Hello to the Arids meteor shower October is already...
Oct 11, 2021•25 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 114 *Bepi-Colombo’s Mercury flyby underway As we go to air the joint European Space Agency Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency BepiColombo mission to Mercury is undertaking the first of six flybys of its destination planet as it uses the tiny world’s gravity assist to slow down enough to eventually achieve orbit insertion in 2025. *Jupiter hit by something big Citizen scientists observing the gas giant Jupiter ...
Oct 08, 2021•37 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 113 *Cosmic impact that destroyed a city A new study claims the ancient bronze age Jordan Valley city of Tall el-Hammam was destroyed by an asteroid impact. In the same way that the biblical story of Noah’s flood could have originated in accounts of the ancient Mediterranean Sea’s inundation of the Black Sea -- was this the basis for the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah? *TESS finds its smallest planet yet...
Oct 06, 2021•33 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 112 *Three Big Marsquakes rock the red planet NASA’s InSight lander has recorded a massive magnitude 4.2 Marsquake on the red planet which shook the spacecraft for nearly an hour-and-a-half. *NASA’s Mars fleet moves into solar conjunction Planet Earth’s invasion of Mars has hit the pause button as the red planet moves into solar conjunction. *NASA prepares for Arnhem Land rocket blast-off A team of key NASA pe...
Oct 04, 2021•28 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 111 *Have scientists detected dark energy A new study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and reported in the journal Physical Review D, suggests that some unexplained results from the XENON1T experiment in Italy may have been caused by dark energy, and not the dark matter the experiment was designed to detect. *A launch abort for Black Sky’s new sounding rocket The maiden flight of Black Sky Ae...
Oct 01, 2021•25 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 110 *A landing site chosen for NASA’s new VIPER lunar rover NASA has selected the western edge of Nobile Crater at the Moon's South Pole as the landing site for its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover or VIPER mission slated to launch in 2023. *Was Mars too small to retain water New research suggests a fundamental reason Mars has no water may be that it’s just too small to hold onto large amounts o...
Sep 29, 2021•28 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 109 *Super volcanoes discovered on Mars Scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of “super eruptions,” the biggest volcanic eruptions known, over a 500-million-year period. *Uncovering the secret mushballs of Neptune and Uranus Mushballs – giant, slushy hailstones made from a mixture of ammonia and water – may be responsible for an atmospheric anomaly a...
Sep 27, 2021•39 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 108 *Time for a revision for the Milky Way galaxy’s formation Scientists will need to rethink how the Milky Way galaxy formed and evolved after new observations showed the galaxy’s gases aren’t homogeneously mixed – as originally thought. *NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ready for launch After successful completion of its final tests, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now being prepped for shipment to the...
Sep 24, 2021•23 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 107 *The Perseverance rover collects a second sample of Martian history NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the Jezero Crater region of the red planet. *ExoMars 2020 on track for launch a year from now Well, it was slated to fly in 2020, but ongoing technical delays and the COVID-19 Corona virus pandemic forc...
Sep 22, 2021•33 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 106 *A new look at planet changing super volcanos A new study warns that super volcano eruptions can continue with follow up events for thousands of years after the main blast. *Work underway on the Moon capsule Work is now underway at Lockheed Martin on the Orion spacecraft that will be used on the Artemis III mission to return people to the lunar surface. *SpaceX Inspiration4 mission Four space tourists have...
Sep 20, 2021•39 min
