CONTINUED HEADLINE: NASA Budget Debates, SpaceX Reliability, and International Space Updates GUEST NAME: Bob Zimmerman SUMMARY: Bob Zimmerman discusses Trump administration's NASA budget cuts, Congress's push to restore funding for missions like Chandra a
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
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HEADLINE: NASA Budget Debates, SpaceX Reliability, and International Space Updates
GUEST NAME: Bob Zimmerman
SUMMARY: Bob Zimmerman discusses Trump administration's NASA budget cuts, Congress's push to restore funding for missions like Chandra and New Horizons. He also covers a SpaceX Starlink outage, Russia's shrinking space program, and the commercial space sector's growth. Zimmerman expresses skepticism about new sunspot predictions and explains M82 galaxy's star-forming activity.1958
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| 0:23.8 | This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Betts with my good colleague, Bob Zimmerman. |
| 0:29.3 | Stars, stars in the cosmos, too many to count, mysteries about where they come from, black |
| 0:35.2 | holes. There's one star we know less about, and that's dangerous, and that's the sun. |
| 0:42.6 | So Bob's here to help us understand what NASA understands about the sun and what is left to be done. |
| 0:49.0 | Bob, the sun. |
| 0:50.5 | Yes, there was a, I'm sorry, John, there was a press release from NASA this week, |
| 0:57.1 | announcing that scientists at JPL are now predicting that the sun is going to see a major |
| 1:03.2 | increase in sunspot activity in the coming decades. |
| 1:07.1 | This will be a long-term uptick in activity. |
| 1:10.1 | And they base this prediction on their tracking |
| 1:15.4 | of the sun's solar wind. What they've noticed that in 2008, it was at its weakest in recorded |
| 1:23.5 | history. But since then, the sun has reversed its long term, that long term weakening |
| 1:28.4 | trend. |
| 1:29.3 | And they've seen a steady increase in various solar wind parameters, some increasing 29 to 45%. |
| 1:38.5 | And they say this increase in the parameters of the solar wind is going to result in a stronger solar |
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