Spacevidcast 6.11: 3D printing rocket engine contest

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Spacevidcast posts the video of the latest live program: 3D Printing Rocket Engine Contest – 6.11

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Darlene from DIYROCKETS joins us to talk about a contest to create a 3D printed rocket engine.

Jefrey from the Yuri’s Night Executive Team is in-studio to chat about YN2013 and where the team would like to take the parties in the future.

Obama wants NASA to capture an asteroid at the expense of Planetary Sciences.

All that and a bunch more on this April 13th episode of Spacevidcast. Don’t let the show stop here, Spacevidcast After Dark is available to our epic subscribers. Featuring many gigs of exclusive content, epic is how we pay for the show. Consider signing up today for as little as $10/mo or $100/yr and get access to After Dark: the show after the show.

Astronomy, Space participation

Exoplanet names and nicknames

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It appears the IAU misleads the public by claiming Uwingu was doing something wrong in asking the public to participate in simply nominating names for exoplants. It also misleads in claiming that it’s role in technical nomenclature given to it by astronomy organizations gives it the all powerful right to decide what anyone may call any object in the universe.

This is as silly as the IAU’s claim that a majority vote among a group of astronomers can instantly convert a planet to a non-planet.

Inevitably some exoplanets will have popular names, i.e nicknames, in addition to the technical names used by astronomy organizations.

History, Space participation, Space Science

Russian amateur group may have found lost Soviet Mars lander

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A group of Russian space enthusiasts may have spotted an image of a Soviet Mars lander that transmitted for a few seconds after landing on the Red Planet in 1971 before going permanently silent:

Education, Space Science

SciShow: We’re going asteroid wranglin’!

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Hank of the SciShow says, “We’re Going Asteroid Wranglin’!”

Education, Near Space

JP Aerospace flies 2000 PongSats

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JP Aerospace had a productive week: Mission Success! – JP Aerospace Blog

We flew just over 2000 PongSat student experiments, the most we’ve ever flown at once. All five launches were in winds that were steady 20 with gusts to 46 mph.