World Space Week And Promising Climate Tech Companies

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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We check in on some exciting space missions and projects from IMAP to LIGO. Plus, climate tech companies that have our attention.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Florida Lichtenen, and you're listening to Science Friday.
0:07.0	Today in the podcast, we are leaving planet Earth to wrestle with some of the big mysteries of space.
0:14.8	You got to get deep into these things. You have to contemplate them. And as I'm sitting here,
0:19.6	living in the cosmological realm for weeks, you know, my mind is in that space.
0:23.7	I understand how people go mad.
0:26.3	Strapping.
0:30.3	Happy World Space Week to those who celebrate.
0:33.3	We have been going hard, obviously.
0:34.8	And to cap off the week, we are leaving the planet behind for a moment.
0:39.4	Why not? Here to space out with us is astrophysicist Hakeem Olusheye. He's the author of the upcoming
0:45.8	book, Why Do We Exist, The Nine Realms of the Universe, that make you possible. And the host of the
0:52.4	video podcast, Particles of Thought.
0:55.2	Hakeem, welcome to Science Friday.
0:56.9	Thank you for having me.
0:57.9	I am a huge fan.
0:59.7	We are honored.
1:00.6	Okay.
1:01.2	So as we know, space is big.
1:04.1	There is no shortage of news.
1:05.7	But you flagged a couple new missions that you think should be on our radar, including
1:09.5	IMAP.
1:14.7	What is that? Yeah. so IMAP is a mission that is going to study how our sun protects us from the dangerous radiation of intergalactic space.
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