The News From Saturn-With Linda Spilker

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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It has been many months since the great Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere and fiery death. Yet the mission lives on as the reams of data and images reveal much more of this beautiful world, its rings and its moons. Project Scientist Linda Spilker is back with Mat to provide a fascinating update. We close with Bruce Betts and and a What’s Up segment that anticipates the mission of LightSail 2. Learn more about all of this week’s topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0626-2019-cassini-update-spilker.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The latest news from Saturn with Linda Spilker this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	A slightly abbreviated show this week as I prepare to leave for Florida in a few hours.
0:23.0	I'll be joined by many of my colleagues, hundreds of planetary society members,
0:28.0	and thousands of other space fans headed to the Cape for the launch of the third SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
0:34.8	Among the 24 payloads carried by that big rocket
0:38.0	is the Planetary Society's Light Sail 2.
0:41.2	Actually, by the time you hear this, we hope LightSail 2 will be safely in orbit.
0:46.8	With a successful static test on the evening of June 19th, launch is set for the late evening of Monday, June 24th, but you know how launches are.
0:56.5	Anyway, I've got a great way to distract you and myself from our attempt to orbit a solar
1:02.1	sailing cube-sat.
1:03.8	Linda Spilker is still my most frequent guest on planetary radio.
1:07.8	She is the Project Scientist for the Cassini Huygens Mission that ended on an early September morning in 2017.
1:15.8	Or did it?
1:16.8	You almost wouldn't know, judging from the amount of science that is still flowing from
1:20.9	the mission's data, and much of that science is spectacular.
1:25.0	Linda, as always, a pleasure to welcome you back to Planetary Radio,
1:29.0	especially here in the Planetary Society Studio.
1:32.0	Happy 15th anniversary of reaching Saturn with Cassini.
1:36.4	Oh, well, thank you very much, Matt.
1:38.0	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:39.2	I surprised you with that one.
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