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CubeSats are small satellites, some weighing as little as 3 pounds. They provide opportunities for small-scale research in space, and an avenue for young scientists — some as young as middle school-aged — to see their curiosity take literal flight.

https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/goddard/2018/the-invisible-network-podcast-episode-06-next-gen

The Invisible Network: Episode 06 - Next-Gen

The technologies that fuel NASA's exploration don't just stay in space. They benefit humanity in everyday life — sometimes in surprising ways, like how a NASA communications engineer helped create a system that freezes bone marrow.

https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/goddard/2018/the-invisible-network-podcast-episode-05-marrow

The Invisible Network: Episode 05 - Marrow

In the telephone switchboard’s earliest days, the late 1800s, operators served a limited number of customers within their own communities. As telephone use expanded, automation helped switchboards keep up. NASA is working on a similar approach, infusing its satellite networks with a sort of artificial intelligence.

https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/goddard/2018/the-invisible-network-podcast-episode-04-automation

The Invisible Network: Episode 04 - Automation

Whether you're relying on the careful observations of 1950s amateur astronomers and backyard telescopes or state-of-the-art GPS tracking and navigation technology: knowing where you are in space means needing to know what time it is.

https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/goddard/2018/the-invisible-network-podcast-episode-03-time

The Invisible Network: Episode 03 - Time

The mythic hunter Orion, son of the sea-god Poseidon, was himself mortal, but his godly lineage enabled impossible heroic feats, earning him a place in the night sky as a constellation. NASA has developed its own Orion, a hunter for knowledge not of this Earth: a spacecraft designed for humanity’s return to the Moon and exploration of deep space.

https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/goddard/2018/the-invisible-network-podcast-episode-02-lemnos

The Invisible Network: Episode 02 - Lemnos

Just south of the equator lies a tiny plot of volcanic soil, a thousand miles from the nearest continent. This bizarre, remote island had mammoth importance to America’s first efforts in space.

https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/goddard/2018/the-invisible-network-podcast-episode-01-ascension

The Invisible Network: Episode 01 - Ascension

We sit on the precipice of a golden age in space exploration. A renaissance of space science and technology. Every day, NASA sends trillions upon trillions of bits of data to Earth, unraveling long-held mysteries about the universe, our solar system, and even our own planet. But what makes it all possible? 

NASA presents "The Invisible Network," a podcast giving you a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the feats of engineering that make possible humanity's ambitions among the stars.

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Aamir Belim