Ep. 766: How Spacecraft End

Astronomy Cast

Science, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Space

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 766: How Spacecraft End By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay End-of-Life Planning for Your Spacecraft! Streamed live October 1, 2025. Your spacecraft has reached the end of its mission. You’ve done everything you can to keep it operational, but now it’s time to say goodbye. How do space agencies deal with spacecraft to shut them down gracefully, protect future missions and life on other worlds. So, the time has come to see your mission across the Rainbow Bridge. How exactly do you say goodbye? Let's discuss.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Oh Thank you. I'm Astronomycast, Episode 766, How Spacecraft End.
0:56.5	Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts- and journey through the cosmos. We help you understand not only what we know, but how we know
1:00.2	what we know. I'm Fraser Kane. I'm the publisher of the University of today. With me, as always,
1:04.3	is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the director of
1:09.3	Cosmonquest. Hey, Pam Pam, how are you doing?
1:15.8	I am doing well. I have to point out for the audience, for those who don't know because they only listen to the podcast, I come up with the initial graphics and name of it, and then you give
1:22.2	it a much more SEO friendly, but this is one of those episodes where I'm super proud.
1:28.3	My title was end-of-life planning for your spacecraft.
1:31.4	Yours more SEO-friendly.
1:33.6	Mine amused me more.
1:35.5	And I just need to share.
1:37.3	You are the master of titles.
1:39.2	I am the person who writes hokey titles that amuse me.
1:42.7	Yeah.
1:43.3	Yeah.
1:43.5	I mean, this is always a tension between
1:45.3	us. If people's like, wonder what is the, what is the core tension between Fraser and Pamela
1:50.5	as a, as a production duo here? Yeah. Is that I want the episodes to be very no nonsense
1:58.9	as a standalone and different from the other stuff that we do.
2:03.0	Because both of us are doing much more whimsical, news-based, current events.
2:11.1	Like, that's our bread and butter.
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