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64: SpaceX Raptor Breathes Fire and Virgin Galactic Takes Flight
Layoffs hit both companies despite huge milestones in commercial space
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63: Student Innovation at Spaceport America Cup 2018
In the New Mexico heat, student engineers prove their mettle with high powered rocketry and learn how to work as a team along the way
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62: On-Demand Satellite Constellations with York Space Systems' Charles Beames
Mass-produced satellites backed by an all-in-one operations system enables new space applications to be tried quicker than ever before.
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61: Unlocking the Potential of Synthetic Aperture Radar with ICEYE's Pekka Laurila
A constellation of radar imaging microsatellites could enable new insights for business and science
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60: SpaceX Flight Control, CRS-15 Payloads, and Chinese Lunar Missions
The dark side of the moon will soon be getting company from a Chinese lander, and Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to build their own Avengers style tower.
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59: Copenhagen Suborbitals with Mads Wilson
An ambitious volunteer space program aims to send a human past the Karman line with rockets built from scratch.
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58: Terraforming Mars: Challenges and Misconceptions
Getting humans to Mars is a tough challenge, but making it a place humans want to stay will be even harder.
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57: Mars Rover Operations with Doug Klein, JPL Sampling Systems Engineer
We learn how Curiosity is driven from 150 million miles away, the current challenges the rover is facing, and what's next for Mars 2020.
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56: Mars Cube One, the first interplanetary CubeSats with Joel Steinkraus
We sit down with JPL engineer Joel Steinkraus to talk about MarCO, the first (and second) CubeSats to leave Earth's orbit.
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55: Digging into Mars with InSight's Troy Hudson, JPL Instrument Systems Engineer
We sit down with JPL engineer Troy Hudson to talk about NASA's newest Mars lander, and the HP^3 sensor which will dig deeper into another planet than ever before.
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54: SpaceX's New Mars Rocket Factory and a Fully-Reusable Falcon 9
SpaceX is making strides in developing its next-generation launcher while exploring the boundaries of reusability with Falcon 9.
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53: NASA's New Administrator, OmegA, and Europa Clipper
As the U.S. space industry continues to evolve with new regulations and commercial developments, Russia pulls away entirely from commercial launches
