Weekly Space Hangout Audio
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The Weekly Space Hangout is recorded every Friday on the Cosmoquest G+
page. Join Fraser Cain and our rotating group of space journalists for the rundown on this week's space, science and astronomy news.
- Website
- http://www.universetoday.com
- Description
- The Weekly Space Hangout is recorded every Friday on the Cosmoquest G+ page. Journalists and astronomers discuss the top stories of the week in space and science, and answer audience questions. These are the audio files of those recordings.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-02-20 10:52
- last episode published
- 2020-12-17 20:00
- publication frequency
- 9.33 days
- Contributors
- Fraser Cain
- Author Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 154
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2020-12-17 |
Weekly Space Hangout: December 16, 2020 – John Powell Tells Us About PongSats and Airship to Orbit Please welcome our guest tonight, John Powell, President of JP Aerospace, a nonprofit that launches student designed Pongsats (i.e., experiments that fit inside of a ping pong ball,) and other experiments to the edge of space using balloons. To date, o... |
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| 2020-12-10 |
Weekly Space Hangout: December 9, 2020 – Casey Dreier: Are Changes Coming to NASA/US Space Policy? We are pleased to once again welcome Casey Dreier from the Planetary Society to the WSH. Casey will update us (as much as possible) about Space Policy changes that may occur once the new American Presidential administration takes office on January 20, ... |
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| 2020-12-03 |
Weekly Space Hangout: December 2, 2020 – Dr. Ingrid Daubar, Planetary Scientist, Brown University This week we are joined by Dr. Ingrid Daubar, Planetary Scientist from Brown University studying impact cratering within our solar system. Dr. Daubar is part of a team that has been using a new AI classification tool to identify geologic features on pl... |
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| 2020-11-26 |
Weekly Space Hangout: November 25, 2020, Dr. Olivier Witasse, Project Scientist, the JUICE Mission This week we are aired Fraser’s pre-recorded interview with Dr. Olivier Witasse, Project Scientist on the JUICE mission. Olivier studied fundamental physics and astrophysics at the universities of Paris XI (Orsay) and Lyon between 1990 and 1996. He obt... |
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| 2020-11-19 | This week we are airing Fraser’s pre-recorded interview with Dr. Ralph Lorenz, planetary scientist and aerospace engineer from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Ralph is the Mission Architect of the upcoming Dragonfly Mission to Titan, and ... |
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| 2020-11-12 |
Weekly Space Hangout: November 11, 2020 – Amy Ross, NASA Engineer and Space Suit Designer This week we are excited to welcome Amy Ross, NASA Space Suit Engineer, to the WSH. Amy is the team lead for the Exploration Extra-vehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) Pressure Garment Subsystem (PGS) as well as Space Suit Pressure Garment Technology Develop... |
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| 2020-11-05 |
Weekly Space Hangout: November 4, 2020 – Pranvera Hyseni, Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo This week we are excited to welcome Pranvera Hyseni (Pran) to the Weekly Space Hangout. Pran is a celebrated science popularizer and the founder of “Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo” (AOK). She completed her B.A. in geography in 2019 at the University of P... |
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| 2020-10-29 |
Weekly Space Hangout: October 28, 2020, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, SETI Institute This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Natalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center for Research at the SETI Institute (SI), to the show. In addition to heading the strategic vision for science and exploration at the SI, Nathalie leads research p... |
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| 2020-10-22 |
Weekly Space Hangout: October 21, 2020, Dr. Jill Tarter and the Search for Technosignatures This week we are excited (and honored) to welcome Dr. Jill Tarter to the Weekly Space Hangout. Best known for her work in the field of SETI, tonight Jill will be discussing the search for technosignatures. Dr. Jill Tarter is the Emeritus Chair for SETI... |
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| 2020-10-15 |
Weekly Space Hangout: October 14, 2020, Drs. Jane Huang & Jonathan Williams, Protoplanetary Disks This week we are joined by Dr. Jane Huang and Dr. Jonathan Willams from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). Dr. Huang, Dr. Williams, and their team recently discovered some surprising information about the size and shape of so... |
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