This Week In Space

This Week in Space, we cover news about SpaceX Starlink, the Cygnus Spacecraft Launch, and of course, the landing of Perseverance, and even more.

This week in space, our cast interviews Diana ElSindy, a propulsion engineer and the founder of The Arabian Stargazer, an exciting science communication platform and we talk about science communication and the future of the space industry

This week in space, a German startup is working on getting a hybrid motor to space, NASA is sending a $23 Million toilet to the ISS, and a new price tag is announced for the Artemis program

This week in space, Astra flies its first rocket, NASA pays commercial companies to get lunar samples, and scientists find out that the moon is rusty

This week in space, the White House releases a new space cyber security policy, China launches a reusable spacecraft to space, and we talk about delays in the SLS

This week in space, Boeing makes progress with their Starliner capsule, California wildfires are seen from space, and we talk about dental hygiene in space missions

This week in space, China comes up with their own Artemis program, astronomers bounce a laser off the LRO, and we talk about more rocket news

This week in space, Pluto is discovered to have water under its surface, more satellite servicing happens, and we talk about SpaceX winning the NSSL contract

This week in space, our cast interview a Boeing engineer with 33 years of experience in satellite propulsion and who is currently working on the Commercial Crew and SLS programs

This week in space, Amazon get FCC license for 3,200 satellites, Dawn Aerospace dawns on the space industry, and we talk more about Mars now that the triple is all on their way there

This week in space, two out of the three mars missions are successfully launched, Russia and the US relations in the space sector get tense, and we talk about exciting updates for the launch industry

This week in space, The Department of Defense focuses on nuclear thermal propulsion technology, new science data about the Sun is published, and we talk about the wonderful sight in the night sky that is comet NEOWISE, and more

This week in space, Rocket Lab's 13th launch fails, OneWeb gets acquired by the UK government, the DoD withdraws contracts, and space perfume is released in the markets.

This week in space, OneWeb receives half a billion dollars in a bid by the UK, speculations about Biden's space policy arise, and we discuss more about the Perseverance Rover and the future of Martian exploration

This week in space, Solar Orbiter completes its first flyby, high profile members leave NASA, and we discuss the interesting news of Kathy Lueders being the new head of NASA Human Spaceflight

This week in space, we have a short episode this week in response to the BLM movement.

This week in space, China has major advancements to their space plans, Virgin Orbit performs their first test, and we talk about the big news of the Demo-2 launch.

This week in space, Earth's magnetic field is changing, the cast of TWIS speculate about the mysterious resignation of the head of NASA human space flight, a very exciting announcement about next week's episode and more.

This week in space, it is all about space media. Movies, TV Shows, ads and more.

This week, Mars helicopter got her name, UAE is going beyond orbit for the first time, and NASA selects commercial companies to land astronauts on the moon.

Astronauts return to a socially isolated planet, stars move in mysterious ways, and we discuss recent news on docking mechanisms.

This week in space, Rocket Lab catches a rocket with a helicopter, China suffers a second launch failure of the year, and we discuss the long-term impacts of the novel coronavirus on the industry.

This week in space, Covid-19 shocks the space industry, NASA finally releases new Artemis planning info, and the cast of TWIS apply to be astronauts.

This week, we ask when we're going back to space, who will get to go to Mars, and other big questions about the future of space travel. Tune in for your weekly list of Boeing errors and NASA updates.

Mice acquire muscles, Boeing has some more testing difficulties, and explosions are having a moment in the spotlight.

We discuss Olay's new commercial, consider the implications of the Space Force's swearing-in process, and learn about NOAA's goal to get better weather forecasting.

This week in space, Boeing has testing difficulties and we take a look back at the 2010s.

This week in space, more details emerge about private lunar landers, astronaut blood flows backwards, and Boeing performs tests on Starliner.

This week in space, we talk about what the election means for the future of space policy. Also, aliens, apparently.

This week in space, the ISS gets commercial, astronauts bake cookies, and we discuss how the 2020 election season shapes the future of the Artemis moon program.

This week in space, we discuss the fallout from the world's largest space convention with an SSI member who was there!

This week in space, Blue Origin gets ahead of the competition by, well, not competing, nobody can find India's lunar lander, and we discuss how astronauts get fed.

This week in space, NASA finally gets somebody in charge of human spaceflight, ESA admits its rockets are too expensive, and ... NASA holds a fashion show? We discuss what that means.

This week in space, NASA and SpaceX hug and make up, all ships will be watched by commercial spy satellites, and we discuss what ongoing repairs to the ISS say about the future of the station.

This week in space, NASA makes some compromises on their lunar lander, Relativity Space receives a frightening amount of funding, and we discuss the past and future of commercial space tourism.

This week in space, NASA goes back to the old style of contracting, Russia and China team up to go to the moon, and Elon unveils his Starship and everyone has questions.

This week in space, the Vice President gets excited about space nuclear propulsion, yet another internet constellation annoys astronomers, and we sit down with the head of an ambitious effort to reach space with a liquid rocket ... using only volunteer college students.

This week in space, Blue Origin is preemptively angry about a launch contract, Cape Canaveral braces for an eye-watering amount of launches, and we sit down with a space 3D printing expert to talk about how the technology will change the industry.

This week in space, SpaceX muscles in on the smallsat market, Rocket Lab considers reuseability, and we discuss the coming consolidation in launch and what it means for the industry as a whole.

This week in space, France puts its space lasers where its mouth is, NASA acknowledges Starship, and a technical debate about in-space refueling is actually about seedy politics and the future of space exploration.

This week in space, a Chinese startup makes history by reaching space, SpaceX's test Mars ship hops, and we discuss who the winners and losers will be of the new space internet race.

This week in space, bickering at the White House, China deorbits the Tiangong 2 station, and we talk about the legacy of Apollo.

This week in space, Arianespace loses a Vega rocket during launch, India prepares to be the fourth country on the moon, and a surprising NASA change of leadership offers insight into internal conflict in the agency.

This week in space, a study supports a space telescope to protect us from asteroids, NASA releases contracts for most parts of the Artemis mission, and we discuss how rocket reuse has been changing the industry in unexpected ways.

This week in space, NASA approves an ambitious mission to explore Saturn's moon Titan with a quadrotor drone, SpaceIL sets their sights even higher after sort of reaching the moon, and we discuss how much we can risk human lives in space.

This week in space, Falcon Heavy launches 24 payloads, including a solar sail, everyone blames everyone as NASA funding gets contraversial, and a commercial company demonstrates refueling in space! This Week in Space is now back for the summer quarter, with more news and analysis than ever!

This week in space, NASA funds commercial lunar landers in 2020 and 2021, Northrup discovers PR is hard after a test anomaly, and we discuss the controversy surrounding the light pollution from SpaceX's Starlink satellites.

This week in space, NASA inexplicably gets funded to develop nuclear rockets, the battle for Air Force contracts gets intense, and we discuss how to get Congress to pay for space with someone who just lobbied them.

This week in space, NASA deflects asteroids, Japen sends robots to space to fight, and NASA announces the human return to the Moon: Project Artemis.

This week in space, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin unveils ambitious moon plans, scientists reconsider the possibility of life on Mars, and we discuss US cooperation, or lack thereof, with China.

This week in space, years of fraud are uncovered that led to several launch failures, water on asteroids is much more common than we thought, and we discuss an audacious plan by Pepsi to place adverts in the sky.