Podcasts about space policy directive

Quick PSA: This is our final Pathfinder episode of 2024! We're so grateful for your support and can't wait to bring you more content and a new format next year. Stay tuned!In our third and final episode of our special three-part Pathfinder series on lunar architecture—brought to you by our partners at Lockheed Martin—we're focusing on how nuclear-enabled technologies will power and propel a sustainable future on the Moon. This episode ties together the insights from the series and offers a vision of how energy systems will enable humans to survive on the lunar surface and venture deeper into the solar system.Joining us are Kerry Timmons, Senior Manager of Business Development at Lockheed Martin for Lunar Infrastructure, and Joe Miller, President of BWXT Advanced Technologies. Together, they share their perspective on the role nuclear power and propulsion play in supporting a long-term presence on the Moon.We also discuss:How nuclear technologies provide reliable power during the lunar night and beyondThe engineering challenges and solutions for deploying nuclear systemsThe interplay between nuclear and solar energy in a resilient lunar gridApplications for nuclear thermal propulsionThe collaborative efforts required across government, industry, and international partners to make this a realityAnd much, much more… • Chapters •00:00:00 - Intro00:01:05 - Joe's background00:02:47 - Kerry's background00:04:19 - Vision for a thriving lunar infrastructure00:07:13 - Nuclear and space00:08:48 - Lockheed's history with nuclear00:10:23 - Lessons from history that make current power systems in space more efficient00:13:00 - Nuclear's importance for a sustained lunar presence00:16:09 - Engineering challenges00:18:54 - How does mass play a role in the design of the nuclear reactor?00:20:24 - What will these reactors power?00:22:04 - Regulation & safety00:25:22 - Space Policy Directive – 600:27:03 - International alignment00:30:24 - Propulsion00:34:30 - Chemical vs. nuclear propulsion00:38:53 - When will nuclear systems be ready for use?00:40:06 - Economic reason for using nuclear propulsion00:43:34 - Terrestrial application for nuclear00:44:40 - Startup capabilities that Lockheed is interested in00:47:25 - What tech breakthrough would you prioritize for the Moon?00:49:36 - Innovation predictions in the next 10 years • Show notes •Lockheed Martin's website — https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/space/human-space-exploration/water-based-lunar-architecture/lockheed-martins-lunar-architecture-novella-white-paper.htmlLockheed Martin Space' socials — https://twitter.com/LMSpaceMo's socials — https://twitter.com/itsmoislamPayload's socials — https://twitter.com/payloadspace / https://www.linkedin.com/company/payloadspacePathfinder archive — Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@payloadspacePathfinder archive — Listen: https://pod.payloadspace.com/episodes • About us •Pathfinder is brought to you by Payload, a modern space media brand built from the ground up for a new age of space exploration and commercialization. We deliver need-to-know news and insights daily to 19,000+ commercial, civil, and military space leaders. Payload is read by decision-makers at every leading new space company, along with c-suite leaders at all of the aerospace & defense primes. We're also read on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon, and at space agencies around the world.Payload began as a weekly email sent to a few friends and coworkers. Today, we're a team distributed across four time zones and two continents, publishing five media properties across multiple platforms:1) Payload, our flagship daily newsletter, sends M-F @ 9am Eastern2) Pathfinder publishes weekly on Tuesday mornings (pod.payloadspace.com)3) Polaris, our weekly policy briefing, publishes weekly on Tuesdays4) Payload Research, our weekly research and analysis piece,  comes out on WednesdaysYou can sign up for all of our publications here: https://payloadspace.com/subscribe/

Could this new partnership fast-track the journey to Mars? We discuss how Trump's administration might pivot NASA's focus from the Moon to the Red Planet, leveraging SpaceX's Starship and cutting through regulatory red tape. From the revival of the National Space Council to the technical capabilities of Starship, we break down what this could mean for the future of U.S. space policy and human space exploration. Key Topics Covered: Trump's Space Policy & Musk's Role: How Trump's re-election and his collaboration with Musk could make Mars exploration a top national priority. The background on Trump's earlier initiatives, like reviving the National Space Council and signing Space Policy Directive 1, which set the stage for lunar and Mars missions. The Shift from Artemis to Mars: Why Trump has always seen the Moon as a stepping stone rather than the ultimate destination. The potential pivot from NASA's Artemis program, focused on lunar missions, towards a more aggressive push for Mars, with Elon Musk leading the charge. SpaceX's Starship: The Key to Mars: The technical capabilities of Starship, including its fully reusable design and massive payload capacity. Details on what Starship can carry: habitat modules, scientific equipment, solar panels, and rovers — all crucial for building the first human settlement on Mars. How Starship's ability to launch up to 150 metric tons makes it a game-changer for deep space exploration. Musk's Vision and Timeline for Mars: Musk's ambitious timeline for landing an uncrewed Starship on Mars by 2026, with a crewed mission planned for 2028.The challenges ahead, including long-duration space travel, radiation risks, and the need for new life-support systems. Political and Financial Implications: How Musk's influence in a Trump-led administration could streamline space policy and potentially bypass regulatory obstacles. The impact on NASA's budget and existing projects if the focus shifts heavily towards Mars exploration, with SpaceX taking the lead role. Resources Mentioned: National Space Council re-establishment and Space Policy Directive 1 details. Technical specifications of SpaceX's Starship, including payload capabilities and reusable design.

Could this new partnership fast-track the journey to Mars? We discuss how Trump's administration might pivot NASA's focus from the Moon to the Red Planet, leveraging SpaceX's Starship and cutting through regulatory red tape. From the revival of the National Space Council to the technical capabilities of Starship, we break down what this could mean for the future of U.S. space policy and human space exploration. Key Topics Covered: Trump's Space Policy & Musk's Role: How Trump's re-election and his collaboration with Musk could make Mars exploration a top national priority. The background on Trump's earlier initiatives, like reviving the National Space Council and signing Space Policy Directive 1, which set the stage for lunar and Mars missions. The Shift from Artemis to Mars: Why Trump has always seen the Moon as a stepping stone rather than the ultimate destination. The potential pivot from NASA's Artemis program, focused on lunar missions, towards a more aggressive push for Mars, with Elon Musk leading the charge. SpaceX's Starship: The Key to Mars: The technical capabilities of Starship, including its fully reusable design and massive payload capacity. Details on what Starship can carry: habitat modules, scientific equipment, solar panels, and rovers — all crucial for building the first human settlement on Mars. How Starship's ability to launch up to 150 metric tons makes it a game-changer for deep space exploration. Musk's Vision and Timeline for Mars: Musk's ambitious timeline for landing an uncrewed Starship on Mars by 2026, with a crewed mission planned for 2028. The challenges ahead, including long-duration space travel, radiation risks, and the need for new life-support systems. Political and Financial Implications: How Musk's influence in a Trump-led administration could streamline space policy and potentially bypass regulatory obstacles. The impact on NASA's budget and existing projects if the focus shifts heavily towards Mars exploration, with SpaceX taking the lead role. Resources Mentioned: National Space Council re-establishment and Space Policy Directive 1 details. Technical specifications of SpaceX's Starship, including payload capabilities and reusable design.

The greater the value of space, the greater the risks. The rise of the space economy is accelerating the business, operational and human risks. Are we prepared to handle them? The Safe Space podcast series – part of the Reducing the Risks of Space campaign – explores policy, law, technology and operations in development now to manage the challenging space environment of the future. The second episode features a conversation about cyber and nuclear threats to space between Nick Reese, Co-Founder of Frontier Foundry Corporation and former Deputy Director for Emerging Technology Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Tory Bruno, President & CEO of United Launch Alliance and a member of the Space & Satellite Hall of Fame. Before co-founding Frontier Foundry Corporation, Nick Reese most recently served as the first ever Director of Emerging Technology Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he advised the White House and senior Cabinet officials on national security implications of emerging technologies. He is the author of the DHS AI Strategy, DHS's Post-Quantum Cryptographic Transition Roadmap, and the 2022 DHS Space Policy. He was also the lead DHS representative for the development of Space Policy Directive-5, National Security Memorandum-10, the National Space Policy, and Executive Order 13960. A noted expert in cybersecurity, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and outer space, he currently holds faculty positions at New York University and George Washington University teaching graduate courses related to emerging technology and geopolitics. Mr. Reese has a 20+ year career in the US Military, Intelligence Community & Homeland security with a focus on operations and bringing technical solutions to high stakes national security challenges. From the front lines of the War on Terror to building Quantum Computing Policy he has been an instrumental actor in protecting our nation with eye both on today and the future. Mr. Reese is a graduate of Saint Leo University and Old Dominion University. He lives in the Washington DC area with his wife and their dog. Tory Bruno came to United Launch Alliance (ULA) in 2014 after a long career managing programs for some of the most advanced and powerful weapons systems in the American arsenal. As general manager of Lockheed Martin Strategic and Missile Defense Systems, he led a team of men and women responsible for the Navy's Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile, the Air Force's ICBM Reentry Systems and the Terminal High Area Altitude Defense System (THAAD). He managed a joint venture responsible for producing and safely maintaining the UK's nuclear weapons and has engineered control systems for rockets and hypersonic weapons, for which he holds numerous patents. No words describe him better than Tom Wolfe's famous phrase, “a steely-eyed missile man.” When he was tapped to lead ULA, the company was at a crossroads. What had been an effective monopoly on national security and NASA missions had turned competitive as new commercial competitors entered the business. The company needed to adapt to survive. This veteran of military space and missile programs might not have seemed the obvious choice of leader, but he was soon to prove doubters wrong. Tory was inducted into the Space & Satellite Hall of Fame in 2020.

Students: This is a hybrid event. You are encouraged to attend in person in STEW 050B (G52)Space systems provide many critical functions to the military, federal agencies, and infrastructure networks. Space Policy Directive-5 Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems describes both the cyber threat to space systems and the need for these systems to be secure and resilient against cyber-attacks. Most cyber defenses for space systems rely on the ability to detect the adversary. Reliance on detection is a risky proposition, given that anomaly and threat detection remains an open research challenge for both terrestrial and space systems. Furthermore, cyber defenses for space systems must be implemented in size, weight, and power (SWAP)-constrained, real-time operating environments that cannot tolerate increased latency and other common detrimental side-effects of cyber defenses. To overcome these challenges, we have been researching the use to moving target defenses (MTD) to protect space systems against cyber-attacks. MTDs create dynamic, uncertain environments on space systems and can be used to defeat cyber threats against these systems. Furthermore, MTDs do not require detection of an adversary to mitigate the effects of an attack. Our multi-stage-stage research approach is as follows:Development of a generalized MTD algorithm: though conceptually simple, implementation of MTD can be complex. The first research phase focused on the development of a generalized MTD algorithm that implements randomization schemes with limited impact to nominal operations and failsafe commands to re-sync devices, if needed. Application of the MTD algorithms to an exemplar: we demonstrated the MTD algorithm on real MIL-STD-1553 hardware using 4 MTD commandsFunctional experiments: we evaluated the reliability of the MTD algorithms and whether the use of MTD added unacceptable operational overhead.Cyber resilience experimentation and validation: we exposed the hardware and MTD to cyber-attacks to determine the effectiveness of the MTD algorithms at thwarting attacks and thereby increasing resilience to the attacks.Machine learning experiments: we used machine learning models to analyze whether the MTD algorithm introduced vulnerabilities and if the machine learning models could "crack" the MTD algorithm and predict randomization sequences. The MTD performed well in each of the experiments. Most notably, the cyber resilience experiments showed a 97% reduction in adversarial knowledge. Furthermore, small changes in the MTD algorithm substantially decreased the ability of the machine learning model to decipher randomization sequences. About the speaker: Chris is a principal member of technical staff in the Systems Security Research Department as part of Sandia's Information Operations Center. Chris supports Sandia's mission in three key areas: cyber-physical cybersecurity research, high-performance computing, and provides cybersecurity expertise outside the lab. Chris regularly publishes in the open literature, is responsible for multiple technical advances and granted patents, and actively seeks opportunities to transition technology outside of Sandia. Chris leads a team researching innovative ways to protect critical infrastructure and other high-consequence operational technology. His work utilizes a technology called moving target defense to protect these systems from adversary attack. He has partnered with Purdue University over the last 2 years to determine the strength of the innovative, patent-awarded MTD algorithm he has created. His work has explored adapting communication security primitives to utilize his algorithm for space systems and other national security relevant communications architectures. He current research represents Sandia's national commitment to space systems and Sandia's strategic investment in the Science and Technology Advancing Resilience for Contested Space Mission Campaign. Chris has a long history of mentoring, whether through work with Sandia interns and the Center for Cyber Defenders, invited lectures and presentations to university students, and professional conferences. Chris also stewards early career Sandia staff. Chris participates in the Black Leadership Committee and also contributed to the Division 5000 Workplace Enhancement Team for several years—one year as co-chair. Chris actively seeks training opportunities to broaden and strengthen his technical skills and is a participant in the Strategic Engagement Training program at Sandia. Lastly, he was awarded the 2022 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Research Leadership.

Originally recorded 10/9/21 Moon bases. Deep Space travel. Moon Rocks. Domed cities. Dip-n-dots. Monorails! All things of the future... or are they!? Could we be working towards colonizing the moon, or at least a shitty little mining town? Wouldn't you want to be a moon tourist? Maybe use a Moon Bounce ON the Moon!!! Can we do it by 2024? Can we do it Harmoniously? And most importantly, can we strip the moon of all its resources and make some sweet, sweet Cash from it? We also talk about our shitty Health Care System. 00:18- What do you want to Learn about Today? 01:10- Patrick needs to Vent about Health Care. 09:15- Artemis Mission 10:30- Space Policy Directive 1 11:30- Private Partner Contracts 12:15- Discovery of Water in Lunar Poles 12:30- Gotta be able to build with materials already there 14:20- Extreme Temperatures = Extreme Problems 15:45- 1638 16:15- Why go to the Moon? 16:35- 3 days to get there (6 months to Mars) 18:00- I we want to explore space, it Starts with the Moon 19:50- Hypothetical Bored Moon Janitors 21:30- Foaming Metals 22:25- Moon Mining 22:50- Moon Tourism 23:20- Moon Bouncing on the Moon 24:35- The Lunar Gateway 25:30- Capitalism, Bureaucracy and the Moon 28:00- The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 30:05- Let me tell you why the Moon Sucks. 30:15- Moon Dust 31:50- Radiation 32:19- Long Lunar Nights 33:12- Cotton on the Moon 34:15- Did you Learn about Moon Colinization? 35:00- Bye We hope that YOU also learned something, or were at least Entertained! IG- IanWantsToLearn Twitter- IanWantsToLearn email: Ianwantstolearn@gmail.com DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it! Essentially: We Google so you don't have to. ENJOY!

With the number of satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) projected to swell to up to 15,000 in the next five years, space situational awareness and debris mitigation have become a much-discussed topic in the last year. In this episode, we talk to Dan Ceperly, CEO of LeoLabs, whose mission is to ensure safe commercial operations in LEO. The Space Angels and Space Capital-funded company was founded to provide a practical, cost-effective solution to debris tracking, management, and mitigation starting now, before the problem escalates. US start-up LeoLabs maps out plan to make dollars from space junk •  SRI International • platform.leolabs.space • Space Policy Directive-3, National Space Traffic Management Policy •  RemoveDEBRIS harpoon and net capture

Firefly Aerospace is taking over Space Launch Complex 20, President Trump signed Space Policy Directive-4, and NASA is looking to buy more Soyuz seats, even though they always say it’s too late to do that. This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 35 executive producers—Kris, Pat, Matt, Jorge, Brad, Ryan, Jamison, Nadim, Peter, Donald, Lee, Jasper, Chris, Warren, Bob, Russell, John, Moritz, Joel, Jan, David, Grant, Mike, David, Mints, Joonas, Robb, Tim Dodd the Everyday Astronaut, Frank, and six anonymous—and 220 other supporters on Patreon. Resurrected Firefly Aerospace will take over a launch site at busy Florida spaceport - The Verge Text of Space Policy Directive-4: Establishment of the United States Space Force | The White House Space Policy Directive-4 - Main Engine Cut Off NASA Looking to Buy Two More Soyuz Seats, Even Though They Always Say It’s Too Late to Do That - Main Engine Cut Off Email your thoughts, comments, and questions to anthony@mainenginecutoff.com Follow @WeHaveMECO Listen to MECO Headlines Join the Off-Nominal Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn or elsewhere Subscribe to the Main Engine Cut Off Newsletter Buy shirts and Rocket Socks from the Main Engine Cut Off Shop Support Main Engine Cut Off on Patreon Music by Max Justus

Run, Bernie, Run. Bernie Sanders officially threw his hat into the presidential race this week. His campaign raised $5.9 million from 223,047 individuals in its first 24 hours, millions of dollars more than any other Democratic party candidate thus far. West Virginia teachers have another successful strike. They beat back attempts to introduce charter schools across the state. Oakland teachers walked out on Thursday demanding smaller classes, charter school oversight, more school nurses and guidance counselors. And they are demanding a 12% pay increase after years of austerity. Oakland is one of the epicenters of What’s going on? Well, rank-and-file, progressive caucuses have a lot to do with it. North Carolina election board calls for a new vote in the congressional race in which the Republican candidate and his campaign committed what looks like to normal people as systemic voter fraud. More conjecture on the status of the Mueller probe while Trump officials apparently tried to sell nuclear tech to Saudi Arabia. And as if to add insult to injury, Trump is preparing to launch a Presidential Committee on Climate Security to determine if climate change actually a national security threat like the Pentagon says it is. The Washington Post reports that Trump wants the committee to be led by climate denier, William Happer, who says CO2 is not a pollutant, it’s an asset. Back in 2014, Happer even compared CO2 to Jews in Nazi Germany, “demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler,” he said. A self-described white-supremacist Coast Guard officer is arrested for planning a terrorist attack to kill prominent Democratic lawmakers including AOC, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and several high-profile television anchors from MSNBC and CNN. Daryl Metcalfe loves his vegetables. Chris Rabb calls out Tom Wolf for doubling on Natural Gas exploitation. Sean ended up driving through Wednesday’s snowstorm to get to the America Votes conference in DC and will recap some of the speakers who attended it. Kevin went to an amazing Labor Notes workshop on Saturday in Kutztown. Great discussion on building power in the union. And yes, we talked quite a bit about caucuses.   China’s moon landing on the dark side may just launch a new space race.  China’s future plans include a new space station, a lunar base and possible sample return missions from Mars. And China’s military space program “continues to mature rapidly,” according to the Department of Defense.   Trump officially signs a directive to establish the Space Force.  Space Policy Directive - 4 calls for a commander of the Space Force who will “lead space warfighting through global space operations that may occur in the space domain, the terrestrial domains, or through the electromagnetic spectrum.” NASA is planning to put astronauts back on the moon by 2028. That was Trump’s Space Policy Directive - 1 if you’re keeping score at home. Space race indeed. And, Mattel is launching Astrophysicist and Astronaut Barbie this year. Barbie has a 50-year history of space exploration, actually. Facebook told me that one year ago today, my daughter and I finished the first stage of the 1,969 piece Lego NASA Apollo Saturn V rocket. Today is National Margarita Day and Free Will has got a double release for you. Not only do we get the 5th of May - a sour ale aged in tequila barrels with key limes and Himalayan salt; but, we also get one my all-time favorites, Safeword - an Imperial IPA with mangoes and habanero peppers, 10.4% ABV and burns so sweet. Sean makes his legendary return to Pizza Boy.

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests are: segment 1: Lt. Gen. David Deptula, USAF Ret., Dean of Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, and Todd Harrison, Aerospace Security Project and defense budget analysis director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Segment 2: John Tirpak of Air Force Magazine; Segment 3: Evelyn Farkas, PhD, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia in the Obama administration who is now with the German Marshall Fund, Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council and Teri Schultz, a Brussels-based reporter for National Public Radio and Deutsche Welle. Topics include: — Pros and cons of President Trump’s Space Policy Directive 4 to establish a space force  — A look ahead to the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando — Analysis of last weekend’s Munich Security Conference including major themes and the rift between the United States and its closest allies

Fingerabdrücke in Personalausweisen werden Pflicht Verhandlungsführer des EU-Parlaments, des Ministerrats und der EU-Kommission haben sich auf eine neue Verordnung für sicherere Ausweis-Dokumente geeinigt. Darin wird künftig vorgeschrieben, dass zwei digitale Fingerabdrücke in neu ausgestellten Ausweispapieren enthalten sind. Zugriff auf die erweiterten biometrischen Daten sollen etwa Polizei, Zoll, Steuerfahndung und Meldebehörden erhalten. Außerdem sollen alle Ausweise im Kreditkartenformat ausgestellt werden und die europäische Flagge zeigen. Betrüger-Mails mit gefälschten PDF-Rechnungen Bei E-Mails mit Dateianhang sollte man argwöhnisch sein – immer. Dieser Tage landen gehäuft gefälschte Rechnungen in Mail-Postfächern. Die Mails weisen Betreffzeilen wie "Zahlungsanfrage" oder "Fehlende Rechnung" auf. Im Anhang dieser Nachrichten befindet sich ein PDF-Dokument. Wer so eine Mail bekommt, sollte den Anhang nicht herunterladen und die Nachricht löschen. Die Drahtzieher dieser Spam-Kampagne wollen über diesen Weg Windows-Computer mit dem Multifunktionstrojaner Emotet anstecken. Trump ordnet Schaffung von Weltraumstreitkräften an US-Präsident Donald Trump hat die "Space Policy Directive-4" unterzeichnet und damit den Weg für den Aufbau von US-Weltraumstreitkräften, der United States Space Force, freigemacht. Demnach soll die USSF die sechste Teilstreitkraft werden, allerdings administrativ den Luftstreitkräften zugeordnet sein. Ziel sei es, mit der Space Force die nationale Sicherheit der USA zu gewährleisten und gegebenenfalls militärische Operationen im Weltraum durchzuführen. Weg mit dem Darknet Auf dem europäischen Polizeikongress in Berlin wurde ein Verbot von Darknets in freiheitlich-demokratischen Staaten gefordert. Wer das Darknet nutzt, führe in der Regel nichts Gutes im Schilde, sagte Günter Krings, parlamentarischer Staatssekretär im Bundesinnenministerium. heise online betreibt seit 2016 den heise Tippgeber, der unter anderem über Tor erreichbar ist und Whistleblowern eine sichere Anlaufadresse in diesem "Darknet" ermöglicht. Geht es nach Krings, so ist das künftig womöglich eine Straftat. Diese und alle weiteren aktuellen Nachrichten finden Sie auf heise.de

As the next major step to return astronauts to the Moon under Space Policy Directive-1, NASA announced plans on Dec. 13 to work with American companies to design and develop new reusable systems for astronauts to land on the lunar surface. The agency is planning to test new human-class landers on the Moon beginning in 2024, with the goal of sending crew to the surface in 2028. https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast https://spacenewspodcast.com https://wpthreat.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

The President recently ordered the creation of Space Force—but what does that mean? What are the implications for militarization of space? National security expert Dr. Brian Weeden joins the show to explain the announcement. Weeden also breaks down Space Policy Directive #3, which directs the Department of Commerce to begin tracking space debris and other potential dangers to spacecraft in Earth orbit. Casey, Jason and Mat take a detour to discuss the James Webb Space Telescope's latest breach, which delays the launch until March of 2021. More resources to explore this month’s topics are athttp://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/space-policy-edition-27.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Freeman Dyson wasn’t the only space star at the ISDC.  Mat talks with former astronaut and NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan, leaders of the Cassini mission, innovative students and an expert on dental care in space.  Keep flossing!  Planetary Society Director of Space Policy Casey Dreier has the latest budget info from Washington and tells us about Space Policy Directive-3. Bruce and Mat have picked the name for the supermassive black hole that lurks at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.  Who has won?  Learn more about all our topics this week:   http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0620-2018-isdc.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump just signed a new space policy directive targeting the regulations surrounding commercial spaceflight. Casey Dreier, Jason Callahan, and Mat Kaplan dive into the implications of the new directive and what it means for the relationship between government and space. They also break down all of the good news in the House's new funding bill for NASA, and highlight NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine's turnaround on climate change.

President Trump just signed a new space policy directive targeting the regulations surrounding commercial spaceflight. Casey Dreier, Jason Callahan, and Mat Kaplan dive into the implications of the new directive and what it means for the relationship between government and space. They also break down all of the good news in the House's new funding bill for NASA, and highlight NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine's turnaround on climate change.

President Trump just signed a new space policy directive targeting the regulations surrounding commercial spaceflight. Casey Dreier, Jason Davis and Mat Kaplan dive into the implications of the new directive and what it means for the relationship between government and space. They also break down all of the good news in the House's new funding bill for NASA, and highlight NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine's turnaround on climate change. More resources to explore this month’s topics are at  http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/space-policy-edition-26.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

News: Elon Musk is prepping for Mars SpaceX announced that they are building the first Mars, or interplanetary ship, and they think we'll be able to do short trips and flights by early 2019 NEXT YEAR!! Their original plan was to send a cargo ship to Mars in 2022, thus making these test flights. SpaceX's BFR rocket system is expected to travel to other planets, and be fully reusable AND a flight will cost less than the initial Falcon 1 flights, which Musk estimated in the $5 to $6 million range. He hopes if BFR launches, others will believe Mars travel is possible, and follow suit. Musk noted that as soon as all of the necessities for life are installed on Mars "then really the explosion of entrepreneurial opportunity [will begin], because Mars will need everything from iron foundries to pizza joints.”   NASA is sending another lander to Mars!   InSight, (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport), is a Mars lander designed to measure the inside of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core. NASA will be launching InSight from Vandenberg Air Force Base on May 5th as the first planetary mission launched from the West Coast!   Today’s Topic: The Future of Humans on Mars   Mars 2020 Rover   Launch: July/August 2020 Landing: February 2021 Mission Duration: At least 1 Mars Year (687 Earth Days)   4 Science Goals Determine whether life ever arose on Mars Characterize the Climate of Mars Characterize the Geology of Mars Prepare for Human Exploration   To support these goals, Mars 2020 has 4 Science Objectives Determine Habitable Environments Seek signs and biosignatures of past life Collect rock and Soil samples and store them on MArs Test Oxygen Production from the Martian atmosphere The atmosphere is 96% Carbon Dioxide. Mars 2020 will test technology (MOXIE- Mars Oxygen ISRU Experimaent) to extract the oxygen for humans to breathe. Potential Landing Sites Gusev Crater (goo-sev) Jezero Crater Northeast Syrtis (seer-tis)   NASA’s Journey to Mars   NASA is on a journey to Mars with a goal to humans there by 2030s. We’ve actually already started this process with satellites, rovers, private companies, international cooperation and Mars 2020. NASA has classified this journey into 3 thresholds: Earth Reliant Proving Ground Earth Independant   Earth Reliant ISS operation through 2024 Commercial development of Low Earth Orbit Development of deep space systems, life support, and human health ISS, Orion… Proving Ground (Cislunar space) Regular crewed missions and spacewalks in cislunar space ISS is hours away from home, cislunar space is days, Mars is months Verify deep space habitation The first of these missions will launch NASA's powerful new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). The mission will carry the Orion spacecraft (without astronauts) thousands of miles beyond the moon during an approximately three week mission. Then, astronauts will climb into Orion for a similar mission, traveling farther than humans have ever traveled before. Also in the 2020s, we'll send astronauts on a yearlong mission into this deep space proving ground, verifying habitation and testing our readiness for Mars.   Earth Independant Demonstrate Entry, Descent, landing and ISRU Conduct robotic round trip with sample return in late 2020s Send humans to orbit Mars in the early 2030s   How has Trump changed any of this? On Dec. 11, Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, a document that shifts U.S. policy, directing NASA to land astronauts on the moon before sending them on to the Red Planet. "This time, we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint, we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars," Trump said at the event. President Trump said Thursday that he wanted to "top" President John F. Kennedy's ambitions to send a man to the moon by pursuing a trip to Mars. "We're looking at Mars, by the way," Trump said. "Trying to top [Kennedy]. We're going to get there. It's moving along pretty good. A lot of things have happened ... having to do with that subject. Way ahead of schedule."   So… in his 2019 budget request The Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G) is a concept for a crew-tended cislunar space station led by: ESA, NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA and CSA. Formerly known as the Deep Space Gateway, the station was renamed in NASA's proposal for the 2019 United States federal budget. The station would be used as a staging point for the proposed Deep Space Transport, which is a concept of a reusable vehicle that uses electric and chemical propulsion and would be specifically designed for crewed missions to destinations such as Mars. This is the new Proving Ground

*Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years without use. Voyager 1, NASA's farthest and fastest spacecraft, is the only human-made object in interstellar space, the environment between the stars. *Back to the Moon as well as to Mars and beyond The United States is returning humans to the Moon. President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1 at the White House, which is designed to refocus national space policy, with a U.S. led, integrated program involving the private sector and international partners for a human return to the Moon, followed by missions to Mars and beyond. *The night skies are getting brighter The night skies are getting brighter – and it’s our increased efforts to get rid of inefficient incandescent lighting replacing them with eco-friendly LED lights that’s become part of the problem. Between 2012 to 2016, the artificially lit area of the Earth's surface grew by 2.2 percent per year *Europe pushes ahead with new launch systems and reusable spacecraft The European Space Agency is moving forward with plans to develop new versions of its Vega rocket launch system and a new reusable capsule to take payloads into orbit and return them to the surface. *China’s busy 2017 launch manifest continues China’s 15th launch for 2017 has successfully carried Algeria’s first telecommunications satellite into orbit. *Russian spy satellite launched A Soyuz rocket carrying a secret military spy satellite has successfully blasted into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia’s far north. The launch came just a week after the failure of another Soyuz to place 19 satellites into orbit from Russia’s new Vostochny Cosmodrome. *The Science Report Scientists are keeping a close eye on a new bird flu strain developing in China. A new study says planet Earth has entered a new geological age --The Anthropocene Epoch. A snapshot of the nation’s use of illegal drugs. Scientists sequence the genetic make-up of the Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger. Forget wind farms -- new climate projections warn winds will decrease across the Northern Hemisphere. Scientist may have found the ideal speed for pouring espresso into milk. For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimeshownotes Subscribe, rate and review SpaceTime at all good podcasting apps…including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Google Podcasts, Stitcher, PocketCasts, Podbean, Radio Public, Tunein Radio, google play, Spreaker etc Would you prefer to have access to the special commercial free version of SpaceTime? Help support the show, subscribe at Patreon....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary Help support SpaceTime : The SpaceTime with Stuart Gary merchandise shop. Get your T-Shirts, Coffee Cups, badges, tote bag + more and help support the show. Check out the range: http://www.cafepress.com/spacetime Thank you. Plus: As a part of the SpaceTime family, you can get a free audio book of your choice, plus 30 days free access from audible.com. Just visit www.audibletrial.com/spacetime or click on the banner link at www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.com Join our mailing list at http://www.bitesz.com/join-our-mailing-list  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's Arthur C Clarke's 100th Birthday!!! Jamie and Matt soldier on with colds! We have a look at all the news this week, Falcon Heavy, Trump signs Space Policy Directive-1, Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik, Paolo Nespoli and Sergey Ryazanskiy landed, Blue Origin and the New Shepard flies again after 14 months, Kepler-90i was discovered using machine learning, space launches inc Rocketlab, Ariane, SpaceX. Juno science data and giant space mirrors all in this wee'ks episode. If you enjoy why not join the BIS at www.bis-space.com the oldest space advocacy organisation in the world. Subscribe on iTunes itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1097505801 Subscribe on Stitcher www.stitcher.com/podcast/interplanetary-podcast Hosts: Matt Russell and Jamie Franklin Music: Matt Russell / Iam7 Additional Narration: George Russell www.interplanetary.org.uk @interplanetypod

12-11-2017 - President Trump Speech & Signs Space Policy Directive With Astronauts - audio English

The polls have closed in Alabama. Will Democratic candidate Doug Jones be able pull off the upset against Republican Roy Moore in one of the deepest and most consistently Republican states in the country? Jim Antle, politics editor of the Washington Examiner, shares his thoughts on the first exit poll numbers and the end of this dramatic race for Alabama’s Senate seat. Lori Garver, former deputy administrator of NASA under President Obama, talks about President Trump’s new Space Policy Directive.

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