Volume 10

After a rant about civil discourse and the need for truth in the space commnuity, Matt Chats with Alan Smale who writes alternate and twisted history, and hard SF. Hot Moon, his alternate-Apollo “technothriller with heart”, was launched back in July 2022, followed by sequel Radiant Sky, in November 2024.  The Apollo Rising series will conclude with Burning Night, in late 2025.

#315 - Civil Discourse - Alan Smale

Episode 316 of the Interplanetary Podcast kicks off with Matt tackling the unsettling news of NASA’s potential science funding cuts—raising concerns about the future of groundbreaking space research—and pondering whether SpaceX’s mighty Starship could become an over-budget behemoth or the key to humankind’s next giant leap. Then, Matt welcomes Steve Matier, CEO of Maritime Launch Services, who sheds light on Canada’s ambitious foray into commercial spaceflight. From building Spaceport Nova Scotia to launching the next wave of satellites, Steve shares how MLS is staking out its place in the rapidly growing space economy. It’s a thought-provoking deep dive into the business, engineering, and dream-chasing behind the new frontier of Canadian aerospace. 

#316 - Maritime Launch Services - Steve Matier

Matt welcomes Roman Chiporukha, co-founder and CEO of SpaceVIP, the concierge service that books everything from zero-g airplane jaunts to orbital stays aboard the ISS. Episode 317 invites you to imagine your next vacation above the Kármán line—and weigh whether the price tag is worth the view. Strap in for a conversation that spans luxury, logistics, and the future of off-world adventure

#317 - Roman Chiporukha - Space Tourism

Matt welcomes Dr. Saralyn Mark, a world-renowned leader in women's health, space medicine, and innovation in gender-specific design. Dr. Mark is an endocrinologist, geriatrician, and former Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She’s advised organizations such as NASA and the Department of Health and Human Services, and is the founder of iGIANT, a groundbreaking nonprofit accelerating gender-specific innovation across sectors, from health to space exploration. Dr. Mark is also the author of the fascinating book, Stellar Medicine: A Journey Through the Universe of Women’s Health, and today we’ll be exploring how insights from space can transform human health here on Earth, the importance of gender in space exploration, and much more.

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#318 - Dr. Saralyn Mark - Space Health

Matt and Jamie dive headfirst into the cosmic foam to explore the Bubble Universe, the mind-bending idea that our universe might be just one of countless “bubbles” in a vast multiverse. From the physics of cosmic inflation and the mysteries of the cosmic microwave background, to the philosophical head-scratchers of infinite realities, they mix hard science, playful analogies, and a touch of pop culture chaos.

#319 Bubble Universe

Philae’s SESAME-CASSE instrument ‘listened’ to the lander’s MUPUS instrument hammer the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last November. 

Note: Access full description of this audio file via:
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/11/12/the-sound-of-philae-conducting-science/

** SESAME-CASSE is the Cometary Acoustic Sounding Surface Experiment located in the lander’s feet in the form of three accelerometers, each of which records acceleration in three directions (one vertical and two horizontal)

** MUPUS comprises the Multi-Purpose Sensors for Surface and Subsurface Science – including the MUPUS penetrator that was activated towards the end of Philae’s first science sequence on 14 November 2014

It was recognized early in the preparation of both experiments that the hammering mechanism of MUPUS, which drives a thermal probe into the comet’s surface, would serve as an acoustic source for sounding the subsurface with CASSE. The determination of the propagation velocity of sound would allow scientists to look at possible layering in the comet’s surface/subsurface materials, important for understanding its evolution.

The CASSE instrument listened to the hammering of MUPUS for 2 hours and 15 minutes. Due to memory limitations, CASSE was not able to take continuous recordings, but only recorded a few seconds in one go. 

A total of 15 hammer strokes were recorded; this audio file contains two signals. The time between the two strokes fits to the charge time of the hammer mechanism expected at that time, thus this particular recording proves that CASSE was really recording hammer strokes.

When recorded, the Philae lander and the comet were about 510 million kilometres from Earth.

Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/SESAME/DLR (CC BY-SA IGO 3.0) 

The sound of Philae conducting science - 1

This week on our 11th Podcast we cover another exciting week in space. We cover the Soyuz/Progress MS-04 Disaster. Asteroid Mining including an Interview with John Amabile a West Point Graduate and Airspace and Missile Defense Officer in the US Army, who lays out a clear approach for moving mankind into space profitably and with minimal interference from the government in a single human lifetime. We take a look at ExoMars and the TGO.  Astronaut Eye Problems and will USA overtake Russia for the first time with number of rocket launches?
Water on Mars!
John Amabile http://www.changingtheworlds.com/book/

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Hosts: Matt Russell and Jamie Franklin
Music: Matt Russell / Iam7
Additional Narration: George Russell
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#11 - Soyuz/Progress MS-04 doesn't make it and John Amabile - Interview

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A conversation with Dr. Yvonne Pendleton, the Director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).  Learn more about SSERVI at https://sservi.nasa.gov/. 
Read more about the new teams joining SSERVI at https://www.nasa.gov/ames/press-release/nasa-selects-new-research-teams-to-further-solar-system-exploration-research

Transcript: https://www.nasa.gov/ames/nisv-podcast-Yvonne-Pendleton

Yvonne Pendleton Talks About Building A Dream Team For Exploring The Solar System

This is a 10-minute live audio excerpt of ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough conducting a ‘spacewalk’ outside the International Space Station on 24 March 2017. They installed a new computer, disconnected a docking adapter to allow its move to a new location and maintained the Station’s Dextre multipurpose robotic hand - among other tasks.

Besides the voices of Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough, CAPCOM Jessica Meire and PAO Dan Huot can be heard.

Audio is unedited except for normalising. Occasional muting is thus normal.

ISS spacewalk

The final go/no-go roll call of the Aeolus flight control team: all positions at ESOC report GO for launch less than one hour before launch.

Aeolus final roll call

This week we chat to ace Space Journalist Loren Grush about all things space;
Space Legend of the Week: Gregory Jarvis
Space Word of the week: Lithobraking
Aeolus
ESA Esoc trip with the #Earthgroupies 
Unusual rocket death
Space Song playlist on spotify bit.ly/spacesongs
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