Space Gab Podcast

Space Gab Podcast #220 for 27 Feb 2023

SpaceX Crew-6 launch scrubbed due to technical issues, The UK Space Agency has announced over £50 million for UK companies to develop communication and navigation services for missions to the Moon. European Space Agency’s Moonlight programme, A model of the Chinese lunar lander was unveiled at an exhibition to mark three decades of China’s human spaceflight program, China space program peek Destination Moon New :- Carrier rocket: CZ10.- Next-generation crewed spacecraft.- Lunar Lander, Soyuz MS-23 has docked with the Poisk module of the ISS, International astronauts to visit Tiangong Space Station CSS, Companies expect to hear details about the Space Force’s plan to attract new launch providers to compete for as many as 70 missions projected for the 2025-2034 timeframe, China’s 7th rocket launch in 2023, A multi-functional module with 6 docking ports will be added to China's Tiangong Space Station CSS, The James Webb Space Telescope - Six potential galaxies that emerged so early in the universe’s history and are so massive they should not be possible under current cosmological theory.

Space Gab Podcast #219 for 20 Feb 2023

John Glenn made history #OTD in 1962 when he became the first American to orbit the Earth. He made 3 orbits, North Korean state TV aired footage Sunday of a Hwasong-15 ICBM launch conducted, Sunday morning observation of International Space Station ISS passing overhead and also in sight is an aircraft with contrail going by ISS, Chinese spy balloon overflight reaction brings this, ...  U.S. actions ‘absurd and hysterical’ and an effort ‘to divert attention from its domestic problems.’, Progress MS-21 undocked from the ISS, Polaris Dawn flies this summer, In a statement, Launcher said its Orbiter SN1 vehicle malfunctioned shortly after deployment from a Falcon 9 rocket on the Transporter-6 rideshare mission Jan. 3 when it could not properly orient itself so that its solar cells could generate power, Oklahoma ranks in the top 10 for which states are most obsessed with “otherworldly visitors” ALIENS. We're number 8, Xuntian Space Telescope (CSST/Chinese Survey Space Telescope) is planned to be launched in 2024, Japan's H3 launch scrub info. Ananomaly was found in the first stage system and ignition signals for SRB-3s were not sent, Award funds a feasibility study for the Lunar South Pole Oxygen Pipeline (LSPoP), a pipeline at the South Pole of the Moon to transport gaseous oxygen from an extraction site to a proposed future Lunar base, The carrier aircraft for Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spaceplane made its first flight in more than a year Feb. 15 as the company moves one step closer to beginning commercial service, NASA has released additional details about how it plans to use commercial space stations after the retirement of the International Space Station as some in industry seek to accelerate NASA’s support for them.

Space Gab Podcast #218 for 13 Feb 2023

Space Gab still 12th of top 70, Soyuz and Progress spacecraft leak updates, Asteroid SAR2667 was predicted and entered the atmosphere with many capturing videos of the meteor entry, More unidentified objects aka balloons being tracked and shot down, Blue Origin quietly talks about their "Blue Alchemist" project, Russia launched a geostationary weather satellite Feb. 5 on a Proton rocket, Chinese commercial rocket launch increase expected in 2023, Crew-6 in front of Dragon spacecraft, A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test reentry vehicle, Chinese satellite Daqi-1 reportedly shot green laser wall over Hawaii, India's SLLVD2 has launched 3 Payloads: EOS7 Janus1 AzadiSAT - all were placed into their proper orbits, Blue Origin has won its first NASA award for its New Glenn rocket, with the agency selecting the large rocket to launch a pair of Martian smallsats, China's Shenzhou15 crew performed spacewalk at Tiangong Space Station CSS.

Space Gab Podcast #217 for 06 Feb 2023

Earthquakes in Turkey and New York but HAARP not at fault, China balloon has everyone looking up until it was shot down, but are there more China balloons, evening orbital pass of the International Space Station ISS, Mars captured by the Hope probe, Ops Team successfully carried out the 3rd orbital control maneuver of HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander, Gravitilab’s UAV solution ascended to 2,000 ft and then released the payload within their patent protected ‘LOUIS’ drop-pod, achieving a period of microgravity – a world first for generating a sustained microgravity environment using an UAV system, Spacewalk at the International Space Station ISS, HQ in Colorado to first develop a unique space structure on ground, then try it in space. I watched the demo video, Liftoff of 53 more Starlink satellites, that is a bunch of hair in space, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity flight 41, It's official NASA Persevere has dropped the final tube for the Mars Sample Return depot.

Space Gab Podcast #216 for 30 Jan 2023

Kennedy Space Center as seen from the ISS, China producing detailed and exciting space promotion videos to attract youth and explorers, January 27th 1967 The hell of Apollo 1: Pure oxygen, a single spark, and death in 17 seconds, 37 years ago (Jan 28, 1986) the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion 73 seconds into its flight, killed all 7 astronauts aboard, Wow ... check out this view of the green comet, China's big moon rocket now launching in 2035, Planets in line with moon tonight ... bottom to top ... Left Venus, Jupiter, Moon  Right Jupiter, Moon, Mars, listened to The Astro Ben Podcast .. Ben Gamble talking with John Kraus, spaceflight photographer, So that's how they'll do it The mission to return martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 metre-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic interplanetary delivery, Japan's first orbital launch in 2023, Have you the space related Twizzlers Twists ad, SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink launch, Lucy task list grows, ESA’s director general says the agency does not have the budgetary capacity nor the political intention to send its astronauts to China’s Tiangong space station CSS. Rocket Lab Electron launch from Virginia.