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Carnival of Space #558 – Universe Today

Universe Today hosts the latest Carnival of Space.

“Map projection of Charon, the largest of Pluto’s five moons, annotated with its first set of official feature names. With a diameter of about 1215 km, the France-sized moon is one of largest known objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of icy, rocky bodies beyond Neptune. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute”

Videos: TMRO Orbit 11.15 – “Rod Pyle’s Amazing Stories of the Space Age”

The latest episode of TMRO.tv is now available in the archive: Rod Pyle’s Amazing Stories of the Space Age – Orbit 11.15 – TMRO

Author Rod Pyle joins us to talk about many topics including the Space 2.0 Revolution, International Space Development Conference and how to build a Death Star.

Launches and news topics covered:

Launches:
Long March 4C Launches Yaogan-31 Trio
PSLV-XL Launches IRNSS-1I

News:
Orion Span Announces Plan for Space Hotel
Elon Musk Posts Picture of BFR layup tool
New Lunar Tour from LRO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr5Pj…)
Tiangong 1 Burns Up on Re-entry over Pacific

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TMRO short reports:

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Videos: TMRO Orbit 11.11: Why we need to humanize space exploration + 11.10: Searching for Skylab

The latest episode of TMRO.tv Space is now available: Space: Why we need to humanize space exploration – Orbit 11.11

This week Lisa chats to Dr Niamh Shaw about her new theatre show ‘Diary of a Martian Beekeeper’ and why we need to include the humanities in space exploration.

News topics and launches covered:

News:
Microbe That Could Survive On Enceladus
Lightfoot to retire as Bridenstine nomination stalled
S-2 Is Single and Ready to Mingle…With Our SMBH
International interest for Lunar Gateway grows

Launches:
Long March 2 Launches LKW-4

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And here is the previous week’s episode: Searching for Skylab updates – Orbit 11.10 – TMRO

This week Jared gets an update from Dwight Steven-Boniecki about the upcoming documentary “Searching for Skylab”, including some exclusive sneak peaks from the film!

News topics and Launches covered:

News:
Interstellar donuts
World’s First Air Breathing Electric Thruster Tested
Schrödinger in Space

Launches:
SpaceX Launches Hispasat 30W-6
Soyuz Launches O3b Satellites

TMRO is viewer supported:

TMRO shows are crowd funded. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for per-episode contribution or http://www.makersupport.com/tmro for monthly contributions and reward information.

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