Cassini at Saturn: An Update From Linda Spilker
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2008
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Another report from Saturn this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society. |
| 0:24.0 | Linda Spilker once again throws her hat into the ring, or rings, |
| 0:29.0 | the deputy project scientist for the Cassini mission has another of her semi-regular updates for us. |
| 0:35.0 | Bill Nye, the science guy is back. |
| 0:36.6 | He reports from Cornell, his alma mater, where the annual meeting of the American |
| 0:41.0 | Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Science just finished. |
| 0:45.8 | Emily Lochuwala will continue her Q&A on the storms of Jupiter and Earth, and Bruce Bats will |
| 0:51.3 | join us for another what's up examination of the night sky. |
| 0:55.0 | We'll also give you a preview of our sixth anniversary contest coming up in just a week. |
| 1:00.0 | Stand back everyone. We've got hyper-golic space headlines coming your way. By the time you hear this, |
| 1:06.2 | NASA should have announced its reformulated plans for fixing the Hubble Space Telescope. |
| 1:12.0 | The shuttle repair mission was put on hold when a fixing the Hubble Space Telescope. |
| 1:12.6 | The shuttle repair mission was put on hold when a critical computer on the venerable |
| 1:16.8 | instrument failed. |
| 1:18.4 | The Space Agency is expected to try to switch operations to a backup system this week. |
| 1:24.4 | Emily Lachto-walla reports in her blog on NASA's decision to stick with a 2009 launch of the |
| 1:30.9 | Mars Science Laboratory. The big and very sophisticated |
| 1:35.1 | rover has run into its share of development problems including cost overruns |
| 1:39.8 | and redesigns of its motors and actuators. |
| 1:43.4 | Emily does her usual great job of telling the story at planetary.org. |
| 1:49.1 | The International Space Station's Expedition 18 crew has rocketed into Earth orbit aboard a |
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