The Creators of The Expanse
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Season 4 of The Expanse is about to begin on Amazon Prime. Host Mat Kaplan visits with the authors of the eight novels (so far) that are the basis of this outstanding hard science fiction series that begins with humankind having become a spacefaring species that spans the solar system. We’ve also got space headlines from The Downlink. Bruce Betts celebrates more recognition for the Planetary Society’s LightSail project in this week’s What’s Up. https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/1211-2019-the-expanse-authors.html
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| 0:00.0 | Inside the Universe of The Expance, with its authors this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of a human adventure across our |
| 0:16.7 | solar system and beyond. |
| 0:19.2 | Forgive this fan boy's excitement. |
| 0:21.9 | As this episode of our show is published, |
| 0:24.1 | we're just two days away from the season four |
| 0:26.7 | premiere of a wonderful show that was almost lost forever. |
| 0:31.2 | And we're also not far from release of the last book in the series of novels |
| 0:36.0 | that the TV drama is based on. The Expance is one of the best hard science fiction |
| 0:41.5 | sagas I've ever enjoyed. Its authors and producers will join |
| 0:45.9 | me in minutes. We'll start with a few real world developments brought to us by Planetary Society |
| 0:51.7 | editorial director Jason Davis. |
| 0:54.3 | These and other stories are in his weekly digest, we call The Downlink. |
| 0:59.4 | The European Space Agency's K-OPS spacecraft may be in space by the time you hear this. Of course it's an |
| 1:06.5 | acronym. The characterizing exoplanet satellite will study nearby stars to determine the density of planets that are already |
| 1:15.3 | known to be circling them another step toward discovering if there are |
| 1:19.4 | exoplanets that are suited for life. Speaking of exoplanets, it's possible that the |
| 1:24.7 | James Webb Space Telescope will be able to tell us if some rocky worlds have |
| 1:29.4 | atmospheres. A team of scientists has proposed a new and much faster technique for detecting |
| 1:36.2 | atmospheres. Now we just have to get JWST up there and working. That's |
| 1:41.9 | expected in 2021. Both a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship and a Russian |
| 1:48.1 | progress have docked with the International Space Station. Together they have delivered about five metric tons of |
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