Ep. 537: Reusable Rocket Revolution

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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537: Reusable Rocket Revolution Astronomy Cast 537: Reusable Rocket Revolution by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay We took a hiatus this summer, but SpaceX sure didn't, with the tests of the Starhopper prototype. Today we're going to talk about the revolution in reusable rocketry and quest to build a fully reusable two-stage rocket.

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0:00.0	A Astronomy Casked Episode 537, the reusable rocket revolution.
0:13.4	Welcome to Astronomy Caster, weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where we help
0:17.1	you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
0:20.8	I'm Fraser Kain, publisher of Universe Today, and with me, as always, Dr. Pamela Gay,
0:25.9	a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute, and the Director of CosmoQuest.
0:30.5	Hey Pamela, how are you doing?
0:31.8	I'm doing well. How are you doing, Fraser?
0:34.5	Great. Welcome back from Hyattis.
0:37.2	I know.
0:38.2	Summer over.
0:39.2	Time to get back to work.
0:40.2	It was too short.
0:42.4	I won more summer.
0:44.0	Well, of course, neither of us actually did anything that even marginally resembles vacations.
0:51.9	I doubled the amount of guide to space videos that we were putting out every week and then
0:56.8	went and climbed a bunch of mountains.
0:59.6	And I have been doing a daily news stream over on Twitch, which became a daily podcast,
1:05.4	starting this week, and we mapped 10 million objects on the asteroid.
1:09.4	Yeah.
1:10.4	That's crazy.
1:11.4	Really?
1:12.4	Yes.
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