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English
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10 episodes
since May 4, 2021
episodic
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Space news
Hubble still down: NASA is trying to fix the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE after a memory module failure forced the agency to shut down the iconic orbiting observatory.
The problem is with the payload computer, which halted o June 13, stopping hte spacecraft from collecting science data. The t…
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This week in space news
China in space: The Chinese Space Agency has sent a trio of astronauts to spend the next three months of the Tiangong space station. This is a brand new modular space station built and operated by China and they arrived on a Chinese spaceship sent up on a Chinese-made rocket…
This week on the show we look at the European Space Agency's planned trip to Venus, new competition for SpaceX in the launch market and what is a solar eclipse?
We also launch a new feature – exoplanet of the week – where I trawl through NASAs vast exoplanet archive, pick one that looks…
NASA is going back to Venus, selecting the VERITAS and DAVINCI+ missions as part of the Discovery program, with both scheduled to launch between 2028 and 2030.
These two missions to Earth's hellish twin will aim to find out why it’s so hot and inhospitable, why its early development went from being…
This week on the show we find that the Milky Way may not be all that unique, plasma from a microsecond after the Big Bang may have made all atoms, SpaceX may be creating a monopoly and the second chapter in our reading of HG Wells Modern Utopia.
We also explore whether we are heading for a Wil…
This week on the A Trip to Space podcast we take a trip back to the Moon, where ESA and NASA are preparing to make exploration much easier and more sustainable.
First The European Space Agency has announced plans to build a constellation of a navigation and communication satellites in orbit around…
This week on A Trip to Space we take a Trip to the Sun, exploring the where, why, how hot and what for of our own host star – a G-type main-sequence star at the centre of the solar system that formed 4.6 billion years ago.
The Sun is often described as a yellow dwarf, but while it falls into …
In the latest edition of A Trip to Space we take a trip to Mars, wrapping up some of the latest research on life on the Red Planet and the sound of a helicopter flying in the Martian sky.
Is it posilble scientists have seen evidence of mushrooms and algae growing on Mars? Probably not, but a team o…
In the second episode of the ‘A Trip to Space' podcast I look at a new study that explores why the Sun is so hot in its outer atmosphere than it is lower down, radio signals from Venus and upcoming telescope projects.
As part of the episode I also ask first British astronaut Helen Sharman whe…
NASA astronaut Ed Gibson went to space in 1973 as part of the Skylab 4 mission, the final crew to visit the only fully-US operated space station. He was the last person out the door.
Gibson was selected by NASA as a scientist-astronaut and was part of the support crew for Apollo 12 before being sel…
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