Return to Fiery Mercury With BepiColombo

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Elsa Montagnon is Spacecraft Operations Manager for the European/Japanese mission leaving for our solar system’s innermost planet very soon. She joins us to talk about the long journey ahead. Elsa also has the cover article in the brand new edition of The Planetary Report, the Planetary Society’s once exclusive magazine that is now available to everyone online, according to its editor, Emily Lakdawalla. Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye is happy for a very happy Elon Musk. The leader of SpaceX just introduced his paying customer for a trip around the moon in 2023. All this, and What’s Up! Learn and hear more at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0919-2018-elsa-montagnon-bepicolombo.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A return to fiery Mercury this week on planetary radio.
0:05.0	Welcome, I'm Ad Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar
0:14.7	system and beyond.
0:17.0	Engineer Elsa Montagnan is Spacecraft Operations Manager for the Beppy Colombo Mission, launching in days on a long voyage
0:26.1	toward the innermost planet in our solar system. She's my special guest on this
0:30.6	episode. Did you watch the September 17 announcement from
0:34.2	Elon Musk of SpaceX? If all goes well in 2023 Japanese entrepreneur and
0:40.9	billionaire Yusaka Mizizawa, and six to eight world-class artists
0:46.0	will ride the company's BFR or Big Falcon rocket around the moon.
0:51.0	Elon himself might join them. Bill Nye will join me to discuss this news.
0:57.0	Later Bruce Betts and I will widen the definition of relativity for this week's what's up.
1:02.0	Planetary Society Senior editor Emily Lochuwala also has an announcement to make.
1:07.0	Emily, as we speak, it has only been really a few minutes
1:11.0	that something really wonderful has happened with the planetary report.
1:16.1	That's right, Matt. The planetary report is the Planetary Society's flagship member magazine.
1:21.1	It's been in print for 38 years. This issue, the September
1:25.7	Equinox issue just went out. It's my first issue as the editor of the planetary
1:30.6	report and with my first issue I have made and the Planetary Society
1:35.6	has made the Planetary Report an open access magazine so anybody can read it
1:40.3	you may download it in PDF form or read it as
1:43.0	as HTML on our website and I hope that it reaches a much broader audience
1:46.9	than it used to and I hope that people enjoy it.
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