[Space Bites] Starship Explodes (Again) // Moon Lander Failed (Again) // Voyager Switching Off Instruments (Again)
Firefly’s Blue Ghost 1 lands safely on the Moon, Athena… doesn’t, and another lunar mission goes missing. NASA shuts down more instruments on the Voyagers, and Europa Clipper makes a flyby of Mars. Starship explodes again. And in the free Patreon edition, how Vera Rubin could find another flyby target for New Horizons.
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00:00 Intro
00:19 Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lands on the Moon
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/touchdown-carrying-nasa-science-fireflys-blue-ghost-lands-on-moon/
02:12 Athena IM-2 falls on its side (again)
https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2
04:08 Two missions failed
https://www.astroforge.com/updates/odint-mission-debrief
05:33 Next step for private Venus mission
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-installs-heat-shield-on-first-private-spacecraft-bound-for-venus/
06:59 Voyagers keep shutting down instruments
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/and-then-there-were-three-nasa-shuts-down-more-voyager-2-science-instruments
08:27 Europa Clipper flies past Jupiter
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasas-europa-clipper-uses-mars-to-go-the-distance/
09:31 Vote results
https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/community
10:03 Patrially cloudy on an ultra-hot Neptune
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/todays-forecast-partially-cloudy-skies-on-an-ultra-hot-neptune
11:40 Dark matter doesn't decay
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1074969
13:14 Smashed planet
https://chandra.si.edu/press/25releases/press030425.html
14:21 Capsule re-entry
https://www.varda.com/missions/w-2
15:38 Starship IFT-8
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spacex-starship-test-falls-short-for-second-time-in-a-row
17:16 Guide to Space
17:15 Better user experience and a bonus story
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