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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Charley Kohlhase and the Greatest Voyage

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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How did the Voyager spacecraft manage to weave their magnificent way through the outer planets of our solar system? Mission Design Manager Charley Kohlhase led the team that crunched the numbers to select the best possible trajectory from 10,000 candidates.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Charlie Cole Hayes and the Greatest Voyage

0:03.0

This Week on Planetary Radio.

0:05.0

Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan, of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our

0:16.7

solar system and beyond.

0:19.2

And when you talk about adventures across our solar system, your mind naturally turns to the Voyager mission, now exploring

0:26.6

interstellar space.

0:28.6

Our guest this week led the team that figured out how Voyager's 1 and 2 could weave their way among the outer planets and onward toward

0:37.0

infinity.

0:38.0

Bill Nye calls in from Canada to talk about something that is shared by millennials and the President of the United States,

0:45.2

excitement about getting humans to Mars.

0:48.2

And Bruce Batts will help me give away another copy of Star Trek, the official guide to our

0:52.1

universe.

0:53.3

Emily Loch Duala is the Planetary Society's senior editor.

0:57.4

Emily, as you said in your blog entry last week on October 11th, it was a very busy week and the one that we're entering doesn't

1:06.0

seem far behind. The one that we're entering includes a big meeting of the Division for

1:11.4

Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, as well as the European Planetary

1:16.4

Science Congress. But that's not the biggest action this week. The biggest action is the

1:20.5

arrival of Exo-Mars at Mars, and that's going to be real exciting.

1:24.0

Now that these two spacecraft have sort of kissed each other goodbye and gone their separate ways

1:29.5

quite literally, what happens next? Well the two spacecraft are only on very slightly

1:35.2

different trajectories, and that has to change,

1:37.8

or else exomars would follow scyoporili right down

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