Here is the latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station:
On Wednesday, the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle “KOUNOTORI” (HTV) cargo module departed from the ISS. The module berthed to the station on September 28th.
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The latest episode of TMRO.tv Space is on line: Goodbye to Dawn and Kepler, 8K video from Space and Soyuz Failure Investigation – Orbit 11.43 – TMRO
We tweaked the roundtable news format a bit. Still working on timing for this as clearly we’re going suuuuuuuper long. But fun nonetheless. Lisa, Mike, Cariann, Jared and Benjamin nerd out over the latest comic happenings while interacting with the community! Would love your feedback and what we’re doing right and wrong here.
Launch news covered:
Zhuque-1 | Weilai-1
Long March 2C | CFOSat
H-IIA | GOSAT-2
Long March 3B | Beidou-3 G1Q/GEO-1
Space News:
First 8K footage from space
Goodbye Dawn, Goodbye Kepler
Investigation completed on the Soyuz MS-10 launch failure
Science at 28163 km per hour – ISS Science Update
Yep, We’ve Got A Black Hole
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At a symposium held this week by AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) dealing with the organization’s high school STEM initiatives, there was an on-stage interview with SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell by Iridium CEO Matt Desch:
SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell talks about successes and failures in their rocket program, encouraging girls to pursue technical and scientific careers and “build big machines. She tells teachers at the AOPA High School Aviation STEM Symposium about the need for kids with training in science, technology, engineering and math.
[ Nov.9.2018: For some reason, the interview video unfortunately was taken down from Youtube. Will keep a lookout for a re-posting of it.
I did fined this clip taken from the video showing the SpaceX highlights reel presented by Shotwell:
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In a video that she presents early in the interview, there is a brief but interesting clip from a camera on a Falcon 9 fairing as it separates from the upper stage:
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell showed a video with an incredible perspective of fairing separation during a talk with @IridiumBoss this week.https://t.co/pucSVu5PuD pic.twitter.com/2Dt31sK1iq
— Michael Baylor (@nextspaceflight) November 8, 2018
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A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government related space news and resource items that I found of interest:
Webcasts:
** Visit Congress with The Planetary Society, March 3rd – 4th, 2019
** The Space Show – Mon, 11/05/2018 – Douglas Loverro talked “about the need for a U.S. space force and why”.
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NextBigFuture.com hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
