Universe Today Podcast Fraser Cain

Another Test of SpaceX Starship Superheavy combo, another analysis of the flight with Scott Manley and Marcus House! Super Heavy soft-landed in the ocean. Starship survived re-entry. What does it mean for SpaceX?


📺 Scott Manley:
https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley


📺 Marcus House:
https://www.youtube.com/@MarcusHouse


🚀 IFT-3 Analysis: https://youtu.be/EVic941kQ44
🚀 IFT-2 Analysis: https://youtu.be/ReXZvXPak4U
🚀 IFT-1 Analysis: https://youtu.be/RGcdjJj-f4g


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00:00 Intro
01:30 Starship IFT-4 Liftoff
06:19 Booster separation and landing
15:51 Ship coast and reentry
32:52 Failure or success?
45:41 What it means for Artemis
49:10 Starliner and Chang'e-6
59:14 Final thoughts


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Starship is successful on its fourth flight, Starliner reaches the station, carrying people, Hubble is only using one gyro, and Chang’e-6 scoops samples from the Moon and heads for home.


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00:00 Intro
00:14 Starship IFT-4


https://www.universetoday.com/167296/success-starship-makes-a-splash-in-fourth-flight-test/

07:10 Starliner First Crewed Launch


https://www.universetoday.com/167277/starliner-finally-launches-carrying-two-astronauts-into-orbit/

09:28 Chang'e-6 Lands, Scoops, Launches back


https://www.universetoday.com/167243/chinese-probe-collects-moon-samples-and-heads-for-earth/

10:53 dearMoon gets cancelled


https://www.universetoday.com/167211/japanese-billionaire-calls-off-his-starship-trip-around-the-moon/

12:19 SLIM is dead


https://www.universetoday.com/167242/japans-lunar-lander-fails-to-check-in/

13:03 Vote results
13:34 Hubble goes into single gyro mode


https://www.universetoday.com/167294/its-time-for-hardworking-hubble-to-slow-down-a-little/

16:09 Moon spacesuits integrated test


https://www.universetoday.com/167278/astronauts-are-practicing-lunar-operations-in-new-space-suits/

17:11 Support our work
18:27 Habitable worlds observatory


https://www.universetoday.com/167280/research-work-begins-on-the-habitable-worlds-observatory/

20:20 Dark matter updates


https://www.universetoday.com/167236/evidence-of-dark-matter-interacting-with-itself-in-el-gordo-merger/

24:24 More space news
25:06 What Starship success means


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How much water will a proper Moon base need? Where can we get it from? How can we manage and maintain the water? How will this approach work on Mars and beyond? Finding out the answers with Dr Jeffrey Lee.


🟣 Guest: Dr. Jeffrey Lee
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dX5MnbUAAAAJ&hl=en


📜 Water Management Considerations for a Self-Sustaining Moonbase
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14100


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00:00 Intro
01:56 How much water do humans need
05:10 Additional water requirements
09:32 Extracting water from the regolith
15:49 Managing the water
23:38 What comes next
26:16 Going to Mars
32:07 Current obsessions
41:21 Final thoughts


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How would they get a 14-meter mirror to space? Are we sure there's no life on the Moon? Can there be Lagrange points around Lagrange points? How much mass does Earth gain and lose to space? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.


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00:00 Start
00:26 [Andoria] Are we sure there's no life on the Moon?
06:53 [Vulcan] 14-meter space telescope. How?
10:53 [Risa] Why are there plumes on Enceladus?
14:59 [Aeturen] Is there a telescope planned to directly image exoplanets?
18:47 [Vendikar] Lagrange points around Lagrange points?
22:37 [Remus] Can you grind your own glass for a telescope?
25:12 [Janus] How much mass does Earth gain/lose?
28:11 [Cait] How much does time on JWST cost?
28:46 [Betazed] Can Earth remain habitable when the Sun expands?
33:01 [Cheleb] Does Hawking radiation travel faster than light?
34:12 [Nimbus] Did JWST find a Dyson sphere?
38:27 [Belos] How to keep up with space news?


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Lava tubes are one of the most interesting places on the Moon. They can be a great place for a potential lunar base, but they also can be a time capsule that can tell us about the entire history of the Moon. And there's a very interesting mission in development that could explore lava tubes. It's called Lunar Leaper.


Guest: Dr Anna Mittelholz


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00:00 Intro
03:08 Lava tubes
07:31 Lunar Leaper
13:11 Hopping on the Moon
24:04 Going inside a lava tube
27:28 Mars lava tubes
30:44 Mars magnetosphere
36:45 Why don't they just ... crash things into Mars
39:34 Current obsessions
45:15 Final thoughts


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Starship is ready for its 4th flight, Webb finds the most distant galaxy ever seen, a new way to detect Hawking Radiation, and fresh volcanoes on Venus.


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00:00 Intro
00:14 Starship Flight 4 Coming Soon
01:55 Starliner might finally fly humans to space
02:47 James Webb sees the most the distant galaxy
04:58 New way to measure black hole rotation


https://www.universetoday.com/167127/a-new-way-to-measure-the-rotation-of-black-holes/

06:44 Possible way to see Hawking radiation


https://www.universetoday.com/167112/merging-black-holes-could-give-astronomers-a-way-to-detect-hawking-radiation/

08:32 Giant stars disappearing


https://www.universetoday.com/167171/hundreds-of-massive-stars-have-simply-disappeared/

10:42 Vote results
11:18 China's about to land on the Moon
13:07 Sorry, Spock! Vulcan is not a planet


https://www.universetoday.com/167161/sorry-spock-but-vulcan-isnt-a-planet-after-all/

14:28 Volcanos on Venus


https://www.universetoday.com/167156/volcanoes-were-erupting-on-venus-in-the-1990s/

15:39 Akatsuki lost connection
16:32 Cool images and videos
18:10 Newsletter
19:15 Missions to Venus


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