The Space Show this week – Nov.25.2019

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The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:

1. Monday, Nov. 25, 2019; 7 pm PST (9 pm CST, 10 pm EST): We welcome back Alan Ladwig to talk about his new book, See You In Orbit?: Our Dream Of Spaceflight.

2. Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019; 7-8:30 pm PST (9-10:30 pm CST, 10-11:30 pm EST): We welcome back Dr. David Schrunk for a discussion on “Planet Moon” and the Science of Laws.

3. Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019: Pre-recorded Hotel Mars Program with John Batchelor. See Upcoming Show on The Space Show website for details.

4. Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019; 7-8:30 pm PST (9-10:30 pm CST, 10-11:30 pm EST): No Show due to Thanksgiving holiday.

5. Friday, Nov. 29, 2019; 9:30-11 am PST; 11:30 am -1 pm CST; 12:30-2 pm EST): No show due to Thanksgiving holiday

6. Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019; 12-1:30 pm PST (3-4:30 pm EST, 2-3:30 pm CST): We welcome Dr. Gary Greenberg on the microscopic world of sand and art and science. See his website at http://www.sandgrains.com.

Some recent shows:

** Thursday 11/21/2019 – Broadcast 3416 Annual Fundraising Campaign with Dr. Space– The launch of the 2020 annual fundraising campaign, why space and The Space Show, budgetary matters, modernization program, blog, live broadcasts vs. just podcasts and more.

** Mon, 11/18/2019 – Joe Carroll talked about “human spaceflight and gravity, Joe’s IAC Power Point slides [Do Humans Have a Future in Moon or Mars Gravity – 2019 IAC presentation (pptx)], partial gravity, the gravity RX, gravity research and issues”.

** Tue, 11/19/2019 – Christopher Richins discussed “RBC Signals satellite ground stations, business growth and expansion, new government customers. Lunar and Mars communications to Earth and more”.

* Fri, 11/22/2019 – Dr. Kirby Runyon talked about “planetary nomenclature, taxonomy, the IAU and Pluto, the NASA-APL Interstellar Probe Concept Mission and much more”.

** Sun, 11/24/2019 – Dr. David Livingston led an open lines discussion with listeners.

We started out talking about TSS Annual Fundraising Campaign, my telling some fundraising and Space Show audience stories which I very much appreciated plus I asked for support for this year’s campaign to make us strong for 2020. We had several calleers on different topics from experimenting with people being put in suspended animation and attempt to apply the medical experiments to space travel. There was also a call expressing concern about all of the Elon Musk businesses and how that might impact SpaceX. The final call addressed Mach Principle research, the Woodward work on the same subject and rebooting a civilization should it be destroyed. In addition to the calls we had several emails on different topics.

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Amateur/Student Satellite, Education, Space Radio

Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup – Nov.24.2019

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A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat / SmallSat projects and programs (find previous smallsat roundups here):

** Update on Arizona State’s Phoenix CubeSat, which reached the ISS on the recent Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo mission: Arizona State University students design satellite to research Urban Heat Island – abc15.com

“Concrete and asphalt tend to retain the heat of the sun and heat the place. We want to know exactly why, where, and when the cities are heating up,” De La Vega stated.

Once the satellite gets deployed by astronauts onboard the International Space Station in January, the team will be testing, calibrating, and hopefully, receiving data from the satellite for further research.

ASU Phoenix Cubesat Diagram — Component diagram of the ASU Phoenix Cubesat.

** And an update on the Univ. of Minnesota’s SOCRATES cubesat, which also rode the Cygnus to the ISS: The University of Minnesota Sends CubeSat to Space – Food & Beverage Herald

[SOCRATES} is the first-ever made by the university in a joint venture featuring university professors and students from a variety of space-related fields and engineering. The project is under NASA’s Undergraduate Student Instrument Project, which was started three years ago to give students opportunities to build and launch satellites into space.

More than 30 students from the university were interested in the program, led by Kyle Houser, the chief engineer and Burgett, the project manager. The SOCRATES was developed in the university’s Small Satellite Project Lab, founded by Demoz Gebre and physics professor Lindsay Glesener for a small satellite study.

The SOCRATES is fitted with state-of-the-art X-ray detection sensors to provide navigation when GPS is inaccessible. The satellite will also be able to capture information on electronic acceleration from solar flares to aid in the study of the solar phenomenon. The SOCRATES will be released to orbit the Earth in January 2020 from the International Space Station, where it is held at the moment.

** AMSAT news on student and amateur CubeSat/smallsat projects: ANS-328 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin

AMSAT Auction Celebrating the 45th Birthday of AO-7 Now Live
November 18 Marked 2nd Anniversary On Orbit for AMSAT-OSCAR 91
November 21 Marked 6th Anniverary of AMSAT-UK’s AO-73 FUNcube-1
Proposed FCC Auction of C-Band Increases Competition for Allocations
Satellite Operations From the Queen Mary on December 14
Donate to AMSAT Tax-Free From Your IRA
Open Source ‘APRS to Discord’ Bridge Project Begins Testing
ARISS Activities
Upcoming Satellite Operations
The Voyage Home: Japan’s Hayabusa-2 Probe Heads Back to Earth
Satellite Shorts From All Over

General CubeSat/SmallSat info:

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Videos: “Space to Ground” ISS report – Nov.22.2019

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Here is the latest episode in NASA’s Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station:

** AskNASA┃ What is the International Space Station?

NASA’s Jacob Keaton answers questions about the International Space Station. He highlights building this home off Earth and what astronauts do while aboard. Research and other lessons learned from the space station will help us send humans to the Moon under the Artemis program and prepare for Mars.

** Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Repair Spacewalk #2, Nov. 22, 2019

Astronauts Andrew Morgan of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (ESA) will venture outside the International Space Station starting at ~7:05 a.m. EST to continue repairing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) instrument. This is the second in a series of repair spacewalks – the most complex of this kind since the servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. AMS is attached to the outside of the space station, where it has been operating since 2011. It is a particle physics experiment working to help us understand dark matter and the origins of the universe.

** Science Launching On SpaceX CRS 19

The 19th SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-19) contract mission for NASA carries a variety of cutting-edge scientific experiments to the International Space Station. Learn more about some of the scientific investigations riding on Dragon to the orbiting laboratory on CRS-19: https://go.nasa.gov/2qZGYBd Learn more about the research being conducted on Station: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science Follow Twitter updates on the science conducted aboard the space station: https://twitter.com/iss_research

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Activism, Space Policy

Space policy roundup – Nov.22.2019

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A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest (find previous space policy roundups here):

Webcasts:

** The Space ISAC, Cybersecurity and Innovation | Kratos Communications

Erin Miller, Director of Business Development at The National Cybersecurity Center in Colorado Springs, explains what the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) is and why we need it. As Erin explains, a 1998 presidential directive requires the development of ISACs to protect our critical infrastructures from threats and vulnerabilities. There are about 25 different ISACs to support major industry sectors such as financial services, information technology, natural gas and others. As space transcends virtually all these sectors it was only natural that there be a Space ISAC. In this episode of Constellations, Erin will also discuss new developments and strategies to combat increasing cybersecurity and other threats to our space assets.

** Episode T+139: RemoveDEBRIS with Richard Duke – Main Engine Cut Off

Richard Duke from the Surrey Space Center joins me to talk about their RemoveDEBRIS mission, which launched last year and carried out 4 different tests focused on space debris removal and management.

** The Space Show – Mon, 11/18/2019 – Joe Carroll talked about “human spaceflight and gravity, Joe’s IAC Power Point slides [Do Humans Have a Future in Moon or Mars Gravity – 2019 IAC presentation (pptx)], partial gravity, the gravity RX, gravity research and issues”.

** The Space Show – Tue, 11/19/2019 – Christopher Richins discussed “RBC Signals satellite ground stations, business growth and expansion, new government customers. Lunar and Mars communications to Earth and more”.