1. Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023; 7 pm PST (9 pm CST, 10 pm EST): We welcome back Dr. Charles Lurio of the highly regarded The Lurio Report.
2. Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023; 1:00 pm PST (3:00 pm CST, 4:00 pm EST): Dr. Alan Hale will talk with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston on comets now in our sky and comets in the news.
3. Friday, Feb.10, 2023; 9:30-11 am PST (11:30 am-1 pm CST, 12:30-2 pm EST): We welcome back well known Space Show listener/caller Marshall Martin regarding his perspective on climate change, space and especially commercial space.
4. Sunday, Feb.12, 2023; 12-1:30 pm PST (2-3:30 pm CST, 3-4:30 pm EST): We welcome OPEN LINES. This is your opportunity to talk about your favorite topic or issue. Call us at 1-866-687-7223.
Some recent shows:
** Sunday, Feb.5.2023 – Mark Whittington talked “about multiple current space topics of interest including fusion, space nuclear propulsion and likely protests plus much more“.
** Sunday, Jan.15.2023 – An open lines program which included David Livingston reporting “on our recent fundraising campaign, my upcoming knee surgery and impact on TSS, delays in The Space Show book, plus [a discussion with callers on] a host of current and timely space topics“.
her new podcast. LA Made with a Season 1 focus on the history of JPL as only M.G. can related to us. Do not miss this fun, exciting and very informative program. A classic.
** Friday, Jan.6.2023 – Lt. General Steven Kwast, USAF (RET) talked about, “Why commercial space is essential, space as the path for prosperity and peace, China, influencing our policy, Russia, Ukraine, Skycorp, innovation, orbital commercial activities, global space policies and more“.
** Tuesday, Jan.3.2023 – Robert Zimmerman discussed the “2022 launch rate as a record, SLS, Artemis, Starship fuel compared to SLS, China and their program, India’s program and launchers, life at Venus, Artemis moon landers and more“.
Here is the latest episode in NASA’s Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station:
** See astronauts work outside space station in 2nd spacewalk of 2023 –VideoFromSpace
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan’s Koichi Wakata are making their second spacewalk of 2023 on Feb. 2 to prep the International Space Station for solar array upgrades. […] (https://www.space.com/spacewalk-inter…)
** Oklahoma Students Discuss Life In Space With Space Station Astronaut – NASA Johnson
Aboard the International Space Station, NASA Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann answered pre-recorded questions about life and work on the orbiting laboratory during an in-flight event Jan. 31 with students who are a part of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Mann is the first Native American woman to fly in space for NASA and is in the midst of a science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies. Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration through the agency’s Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars.
** Reasons to Believe | LIFE Habitat for Space Exploration – Sierra Space
Sierra Space’s LIFE (Large Integrated Flexible Environment) habitat launches on a conventional rocket and inflates on-orbit to a large structure that is three stories tall, and 27 feet in diameter. It’s stronger than steel and designed to support LEO applications and long-duration missions.
“Investing in these types of technologies and developing them for space exploration means that we can leverage it for other applications that directly benefit humanity.” – Mickey Mathew, Systems Engineer – Space Destinations
We look forward to continuing to build this key element in our Destinations portfolio and paving the way for the development of advanced inflatable habitat systems and architectures.
** LIFE Habitat | Successful Accelerated Systematic Creep Test for Extended Human Missions – Sierra Space
Sierra Space has completed its third successful test of its inflatable LIFE Habitat. This latest assessment, called an Accelerated Systematic Creep Test, was conducted on a subscale version of the habitat and exceeded NASA certification requirements for the Duration Test for Extended Human Missions.
Did you know that living in space has similar effects on the body to natural aging on Earth?
Spaceflight research is helping astronauts live healthier in space, but also everybody on Earth to grow old gracefully.
As Europe’s population continues to significantly age, fiscal costs linked to pensions, health care and long-term care are expected to rise over the coming decades. Population’s ageing is one of the most significant demographic and social trends of the 21st century, affecting nearly all the countries in the world.
Over the years, research conducted in space helped scientists get a better understanding of the biological processes hidden in our bodies playing an important role in the aging of the human body.
In particular the muscle and the skeletal systems have been studied in weightlessness offered by the International Space Station over the last 20 years: the results of these findings are promising in providing countermeasures to aging-related diseases.
Muscle loss (like that suffered by people forced in bed for long periods) and osteoporosis are just two examples of ailments that are having an increasing impact on human society, as the world’s population ages.
Research on bone and muscle loss in space helps scientists better understand the modifications in the bone and muscle structures.
Each of the topics covered in this short film can have large positive return for patients with muscle and bone pathologies here on Earth, enabling new prevention and treatment procedures to be developed.
The step to space research is closer than you might think. Get involved with spaceflight research via https://www.esa.int/spaceflightAO. Find out about our commercial partnerships and opportunities in human and robotic exploration via https://www.esa.int/explorationpartners to run your research in microgravity as well.
** Robotic Arm Control Team Strengthens Ground Support for Upcoming EVAs of Shenzhou-15 Astronauts – CCTV Video News Agency
The robotic arm control team of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) have been stepping up preparations for the first extravehicular activities conducted by the Shenzhou-15 astronauts.
Currently, live views from the ISS are streaming from an external camera mounted on the ISS module called Node 2. Node 2 is located on the forward part of the ISS. The camera is looking forward at an angle so that the International Docking Adapter 2 (IDA2) is visible. If the Node 2 camera is not available due to operational considerations for a longer period of time, a continuous loop of recorded HDEV imagery will be displayed. The loop will have “Previously Recorded” on the image to distinguish it from the live stream from the Node 2 camera. After HDEV stopped sending any data on July 18, 2019, it was declared, on August 22, 2019, to have reached its end of life. Thank You to all who shared in experiencing and using the HDEV views of Earth from the ISS to make HDEV so much more than a Technology Demonstration Payload!
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for news and analysis of key developments in NewSpace
The latest issue: Moving, China’s Starship, Tracing New Space in India
Vol. 17, No. 7, December 31, 2022 (Issued January 2023)
Space Frontier Foundation Award for NewSpace Journalism
** What’s Up: February 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA – NASA JPL
What are some skywatching highlights in February 2023? See Jupiter and Venus appear nearer each night, as they head for a close conjunction at the start of March. Use bright stars Capella and Elnath to identify the constellation Auriga, and then find your way to two distant star clusters using Sirius as a guidepost.
0:00 Intro 0:12 Moon & planet highlights 0:47 The constellation Auriga 1:52 Easy-to-find star clusters 3:10 February Moon phases
Additional information about topics covered in this episode of What’s Up, along with still images from the video, and the video transcript, are available at https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatch….
In February, the Winter Triangle is your guide to the night sky: The northern hemisphere is treated to views of the stars Procyon, Sirius, and Betelgeuse. Keep watching for the awe-inspiring space-based views of the Orion Nebula, which is sculpted by the stellar winds of central bright stars.
Pete Lawrence and Paul Abel reveal the best things to see in the night sky this month, including Mercury, Venus, Comet C/2022 E3, Orion, Gemini and the Moon.
Our monthly Sky Tour #astronomy #podcast provides an informative and entertaining 10-minute guided tour of the nighttime sky. Listen to the February episode and explore the #Moon’s phases, watch three #planets in the evening sky, take stock of winter’s brightest #stars, and track down two lesser-known #constellations.
Listen and subscribe to this podcast at https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/ and don’t forget to subscribe to S&T’s YouTube channel to get alerts about new videos, including this monthly podcast.
The Night Sky February 2023 is here and we begin saying farewell to our emission nebulae as galaxy season begins to rear its head.
The Night Sky is a curated list of deep sky targets, planets and other events that happen in our night skies during February in the Northern Hemisphere.
All targets are split into focal length ranges and are based off of a full frame camera sensor. However equivalent focal lengths are provided.
To use equivalent sizes is simple. Find the camera you’re using and see what focal length I’ve supplied. This is the focal length of telescope you need to match the example I’ve suggested.
All planets are from my latitude in the United Kingdom of about 52° North and I only include them if they rise above 20° altitude for a decent amount of time during the month. So depending on how high or low you are will vary your seeing conditions!
Clear skies everyone, keep looking up and keep them cameras clicking.
Deployed in 2019 and 2020, the RED-EYE small sats demonstrated advanced satellite constellation technologies. Read more: https://www.millennium-space.com/medi…
Together with Boryung and Starburst, we are providing space start-ups with capital, business and technical guidance and access to space. All of this through the Care In Space Challenge!” — — —
Axiom Space is guided by the vision of a thriving home in space that benefits every human, everywhere. The leader in providing space infrastructure as a service, Axiom offers end-to-end missions to the International Space Station today while privately developing its successor – a permanent commercial destination in Earth’s orbit that will sustain human growth off the planet and bring untold benefits back home. More information about Axiom can be found at www.axiomspace.com.
** See NASA spacewalkers install and deploy a new solar array in epic time-lapse – VideoFromSpace
Astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio installed and deployed an ISS Roll Out Solar Array (iROSA) on Dec. 22, 2022. The rollout occurred while the International Space Station was flying over the Pacific Northwest. Full Story: https://www.space.com/astronauts-spac…
** Astronaut Nicole Mann Answers Flathead Reservation, Lake County Student Questions Jan. 26, 2023 – NASA Video
Aboard the International Space Station, NASA Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann answered pre-recorded questions about life and work on the orbiting laboratory during an in-flight event January 26 with students attending the Boys and Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County in Ronan, Montana. Mann is the first native American woman to fly in space and is in the midst of a science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions as part of NASA’s Moon and Mars exploration approach, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.
** Chinese New Year celebrated by Tiangong space station crew – VideoFromSpace
Shenzhou-15 astronauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu send down their Chinese New Year message from the Tiangong space station.
Currently, live views from the ISS are streaming from an external camera mounted on the ISS module called Node 2. Node 2 is located on the forward part of the ISS. The camera is looking forward at an angle so that the International Docking Adapter 2 (IDA2) is visible. If the Node 2 camera is not available due to operational considerations for a longer period of time, a continuous loop of recorded HDEV imagery will be displayed. The loop will have “Previously Recorded” on the image to distinguish it from the live stream from the Node 2 camera. After HDEV stopped sending any data on July 18, 2019, it was declared, on August 22, 2019, to have reached its end of life. Thank You to all who shared in experiencing and using the HDEV views of Earth from the ISS to make HDEV so much more than a Technology Demonstration Payload!
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Check out the The Lurio Report
for news and analysis of key developments in NewSpace
The latest issue: Moving, China’s Starship, Tracing New Space in India
Vol. 17, No. 7, December 31, 2022 (Issued January 2023)
Space Frontier Foundation Award for NewSpace Journalism
Voyager Space CEO Dylan Taylor shares his vision for the future of the space industry, from travel to commercial space stations. “I’m super excited about where we are, and even more excited about where we’re headed.”
** U.S. Spacewalk 84 Animation – January 20, 2023 – NASA Johnson
Expedition 68 astronauts Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will step outside the International Space Station for a six-and-a-half hour spacewalk to conduct preparation work for upcoming solar array upgrades for the station’s 1A and 1B power channels. The current solar arrays which were designed for a 15-year service life are functioning well, but have begun to show signs of degradation, as expected. The first pair of solar arrays were deployed in December 2000 and have been powering the station for more than 20 years. The new ISS Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) will be positioned in front of six of the current arrays, increasing the station’s total available power from 160 kilowatts to up to 215 kilowatts.
** Spacewalk with Astronauts Nicole Mann and Koichi Wakata at the Space Station (Jan. 20) – NASA
Astronauts Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) will step outside the International Space Station for their first spacewalk to finish work preparing for solar array additions planned for this summer.
The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m. EST (1315 UTC) and will last up to seven hours.
** Spacewalk begins to prep space station for new solar arrays – VideoFromSpace
Expedition 68 astronauts Nicole Mann of NASA and JAXA’s Koichi Wakata. began a spacewalk on Jan. 20, 2023. They will “conduct preparation work for upcoming solar array upgrades for the station’s 1A and 1B power channels,” according to NASA. Watch live: https://www.space.com/space-station-f…
** NASA’s Plan To Rescue Stranded Astronauts – Playing Sardines In A Space Capsule – Scott Manley
In 1973 there were concerns that the crew on Skylab may be stuck without a ride home after half the thrusters on the Service module failed. In response NASA turned to its existing Skylab Rescue plans which involved squeezing 5 people into a capsule designed for 3, and assigned Vance Brand and Don Lind to train for this mission. Over the next few days this crew showed the rescue was possible, but as they analyzed the problem in with the spacecraft they also showed that there were safe ways to return the damaged spacecraft without needing the rescue mission. This story is of course relevant 50 years later because Soyuz MS22 has a crippled cooling system and the crew will have to wait for a replacement.
Together with Boryung and Starburst, we are providing space start-ups with capital, business and technical guidance and access to space. All of this through the Care In Space Challenge!”
Axiom Space is guided by the vision of a thriving home in space that benefits every human, everywhere. The leader in providing space infrastructure as a service, Axiom offers end-to-end missions to the International Space Station today while privately developing its successor – a permanent commercial destination in Earth’s orbit that will sustain human growth off the planet and bring untold benefits back home. More information about Axiom can be found at www.axiomspace.com.
Currently, live views from the ISS are streaming from an external camera mounted on the ISS module called Node 2. Node 2 is located on the forward part of the ISS. The camera is looking forward at an angle so that the International Docking Adapter 2 (IDA2) is visible. If the Node 2 camera is not available due to operational considerations for a longer period of time, a continuous loop of recorded HDEV imagery will be displayed. The loop will have “Previously Recorded” on the image to distinguish it from the live stream from the Node 2 camera. After HDEV stopped sending any data on July 18, 2019, it was declared, on August 22, 2019, to have reached its end of life. Thank You to all who shared in experiencing and using the HDEV views of Earth from the ISS to make HDEV so much more than a Technology Demonstration Payload!
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Check out the The Lurio Report
for news and analysis of key developments in NewSpace
The latest issue: Moving, China’s Starship, Tracing New Space in India
Vol. 17, No. 7, December 31, 2022 (Issued January 2023)
Space Frontier Foundation Award for NewSpace Journalism
