The Space Show this week – June.6.2016

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

1. Monday, June 6, 2016: 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome Garty Oleson to the show regarding his recent Space Review article “Effects of changing economics on Space architecture and engineering“. You can read the article at www.thespacereview.com/article/2986/1.

2. Tuesday, June 7, 2016: 7-8:30 PM PDT (10-11:30 PM EDT, 9-10:30 PM CDT) We welcome WES FAIRES to discuss space property rights claims.

3. Friday, June 10, 2016: 2016; 9:30-11AM PDT; (12:30-2 PM EDT; 11:30 AM – 1 PM CDT) We welcome back Dr. Dan Durda. Dan will be discussing updates to the suborbital community as he will tell us what went on at the Next Gen Suborbital Researchers Conference last week.

4. Sunday, June 5, 2016: 12-1:30 PM PDT (3-4:30 PM EDT, 2-3:30 PM CDT): .We welcome back PAUL BREED of Unreasonable Rockets. Paul will update us on his work and many current events in the industry as well as presentations from the Space Access Society meetings a few weeks ago.

See also:
* The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
* The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
* The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs

The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.

Activism, Space Policy, SpaceCasts

Videos: TMRO 9.20 – Elon Musk hinting at Mars plans + Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos interviews

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The most recent episode of TMRO.tv is now on line: Elon Musk hinting at Mars plans – #MuskOnMars – TMRO

Earlier this week Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX was at the ReCode conference talking about many things. One of those was a hint at what the SpaceX Mars architecture will start to look like. We listen to a small snippet of that conference and discuss. [The full interview is available below.]

Space news topics discussed:

* Russia deploys another GLONASS-M spacecraft via Soyuz 2-1B launch
* Long March 4B lofts Earth-viewing satellites for China, Argentina
* Russian Rokot launches Geo-IK-2
* Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket completes static fire
* Record double-satellite payload mated to Ariane 5 for launch next week
* New Soyuz Spacecraft first launch may be delayed
* Did the young Sun steal Planet 10 from another star?

TMRO.tv is viewer supported:

TMRO:Space Live is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information, goals and reward levels. Don’t forget to check out our SpacePod campaign as well over at http://www.patreon.com/spacepod

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Here is the interview with Elon Musk at the Code Conference last week:

Jeff Bezos also was interviewed at the conference. He talks about Blue Origin and his motivations for his space efforts starting at around 44 minutes into the video:

Astronomy, Education, Multiple media

Videos: “Sailing Amongst the Stars” – a new space documentary series

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Below are the initial entries in a space documentary series of videos on Youtube:

Dr. Kaii is proud to present a new series where he finally gets to give over all the wonderful ideas, facts and knowledge about the galaxy that are just waiting to blow your minds.

Using the photo-real sandbox tool Space Engine, this is a whole new type of documentary, with the potential for hundreds of effortless episodes, with the ability to demonstrate the size and awe of the universe in ways never seen before.

Subscribe and follow, I can’t imagine any scenario where you’d regret it 😉

The series is viewer supported:

To keep these videos going, donations would be most gratefully received here: http://bit.ly/SASDonate
To keep Space Engine free and continually developed, donate here: http://en.spaceengine.org/i…

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Solar Science

The Sun goes spotless as it falls towards a Minimum

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The Sun has gone spotless as it enters the less active phase of the solar cycle: Vanishing Sunspots – Spaceweather.com – June.4.2016 –

Forecasters expect the next Solar Minimum to arrive in 2019-2020. Between now and then, there will be lots of spotless suns. At first, the blank stretches will be measured in days; later in weeks and months. Don’t expect space weather to grow quiet, however. Solar Minimum brings many interesting changes. For instance, as the extreme ultraviolet output of the sun decreases, the upper atmosphere of Earth cools and collapses. This allows space junk to accumulate around our planet. Also, the heliosphere shrinks, bringing interstellar space closer to Earth. Galactic cosmic rays penetrate the inner solar system with relative ease. Indeed, a cosmic ray surge is already underway. Goodbye sunspots, hello deep-space radiation!