'Hold That Thought' - T-Minus 40: Starship Scrubs, Mars Beckons

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Anna: 40 seconds. That's all that stood between

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humanity and the most powerful rocket ever

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built, taking its first flight in a whole New

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form.

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Avery: 40 seconds. The countdown was running. The

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rocket was fueled. Tens of thousands of

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people were watching, including a certain pop

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star who really should have been a good omen.

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Anna: And then it stopped. Ground equipment

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issues, rising propellant temperatures, a

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scrub.

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Avery: But here's the thing. Even in the scrub,

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SpaceX dropped a bombshell that had nothing

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to do with the rocket. A crewed mission to

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Mars. A real one, with a commander already

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named.

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Anna: We have got a lot to unpack today. I'm

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Anna.

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Avery: I'm, um, Avery.

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Anna: And, um, this is Astronomy Daily. May 22,

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2026. Let's get into it.

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Avery: Alright, let's set the scene. Thursday

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evening, South Texas Starbase. The

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brand new Starship version 3 is sitting on

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the pad, fueled, stacked, frosted white

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from cryogenic propellant. And the crowd has

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been building all day.

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Anna: This was supposed to be Flight 12, the debut

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of the most powerful rocket ever built in its

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most advanced configuration yet. And for

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context, this is the first starship test

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flight since way back in October of last

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year. Seven months of development work,

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two explosive setbacks on the test stand that

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destroyed hardware. And now, finally,

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here they are.

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Avery: The launch window opens, weather clears.

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SpaceX pushes to the back of the 90 minute

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window to wait for upper level winds to ease.

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And then the countdown starts ticking toward

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Anna: T0 and it gets to T minus

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40 seconds and it stops. It

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restarts, goes back to T40,

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stops again. Engineers are on the webcast,

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working through it in real time. SpaceX

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communications manager Dan Hoot is telling

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viewers they're seeing issues with quick

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disconnect lines and water diverters on the

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launch tower.

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Avery: And then propellant temperatures start rising

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in the tanks. That's the clock running out.

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The window closes.

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Anna: Scrubbed a ah scrub at T minus 40

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is genuinely frustrating. You're that close.

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But it's also, as SpaceX themselves say,

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completely expected behavior for a brand new

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rocket on a brand new pad. You learn things

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about these systems that you simply cannot

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learn any other way.

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Avery: So let's talk about what they're actually

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trying to fly. Because Starship V3 is a

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substantial step up from everything that came

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before.

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Anna: The V3 Starship. That's the upper stage

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called ship 39 in this case and its

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super heavy booster, booster 19

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together generate around 18 million

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pounds of thrust at liftoff. That is a

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significant Increase over the V2

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configuration. New engines on both stages.

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Avery: The mission profile for Flight 12, when it

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does fly, has Booster 19 splashing down in

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the Gulf of Mexico while Ship 39 continues

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on a suborbital trajectory and targets a

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controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

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And critically, the mission includes a Raptor

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engine test during the coast phase. Important

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Data for future DE orbiting burns on orbital

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flights.

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Anna: And if, uh, Flight 12 goes well, the word

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from SpaceX is that Flight 13 could be the

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first orbital starship launch. That's a

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massive milestone. Now there's a bigger

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picture here too, Avery. SpaceX recently

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filed for an IPO. The company is expected to

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go public within weeks. And Starship is

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central to that story, demonstrating

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meaningful progress on the next generation

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rocket program. Right now matters in a very

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real financial sense.

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Avery: The good news is they get another shot

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tonight. The launch window opens at 6:30pm

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Eastern, closing at 8. Engineers have been

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working through the night on those ground

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systems. If you're listening to this and the

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window hasn't opened yet, watch to space.

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Anna: And now the part that honestly might be the

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bigger story. Because while engineers were

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troubleshooting at T minus 40, the SpaceX

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webcast team did something remarkable. They

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cut to a pre recorded interview

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Avery: with a man sitting on Bouvet island, which

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for context is widely considered the most

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remote island on Earth. A tiny volcanic rock

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in the South Atlantic, a nature reserve,

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population zero.

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Anna: This is Chun Wang, Chinese born

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cryptocurrency entrepreneur, citizen of Malta

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and the commander of the Fram 2 mission last

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year. The first ever crewed spaceflight to

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polar orbit. The man has form when it comes

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to doing genuinely novel things in space.

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Avery: And SpaceX announced that Chun Wang has

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signed on to fly on the first commercial

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starship Circumlunar mission, joining Dennis

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Tito and his wife Akiko, who bought seats

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back in 2022. A loop around the moon

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on starship.

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Anna: But that's not the headline. The headline is

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what comes after the lunar flight.

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Avery: Chun Wang will command the first crewed

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Starship interplanetary mission. A

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flyby of Mars. A two year mission.

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And in Wang's own words, a lot of people talk

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about going to Mars. We like Mars, we're

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going to land on Mars, we're going to build a

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colony on Mars. But let's get it started with

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a flyby. It will light the fire, it will

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ignite the imagination, it will build the

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momentum.

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Anna: No launch date was given, no full crew

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manifest, but a commander is named, a

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mission is defined. That's a real step

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beyond the language of we intend to and

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into the language of this person is going.

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Avery: Remember, SpaceX's own timeline has Uncrewed

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starships launching for Mars in the November

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December 2026 transfer window. The pace

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of this program, even with scrubs and

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setbacks, is like nothing we've seen before.

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Anna: One scrub doesn't change any of that. It will

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simply become a footnote in space history

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books. What matters is that the rocket is on

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the pad. The ambition is extraordinary.

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And tonight, maybe tonight, Starship

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V3 flies for the first time.

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Avery: And meanwhile, in other space news today,

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staying with the theme of extraordinary

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things happening in space, the James Webb

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Space Telescope has given us another one.

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Astronomers have directly imaged an exoplanet

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called Epsilon Indi Ab, a cold

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super Jupiter sitting about 12 light years

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from ear, and found something nobody expected

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to find there.

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Anna: Water ice clouds. Not ammonia clouds,

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which is what Jupiter, like planets are

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supposed to have. Hatchy, thick water

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ice clouds similar to cirrus clouds here on

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Earth, hiding in the atmosphere of a world

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seven and a half times the mass of Jupiter.

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Avery: The discovery comes from a team led by

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Elizabeth Matthews at the Max Planck

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Institute for Astronomy, using Webb's mid

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infrared imager, the MIRI camera, which was

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able to directly image the planet's faint

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heat emission. The planet orbits its star at,

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uh, roughly Neptune's distance from our sun,

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making it far colder than most exoplanets.

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Webb has studied surface temperatures

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somewhere between -70 and positive 20

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degrees Celsius.

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Anna: What makes this significant isn't just the

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discovery itself. It's what it says about our

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models. Current atmospheric models for

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exoplanets didn't predict water ice clouds in

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a world like this. They expected ammonia.

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The fact that thick water ice layers appear

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to be masking the ammonia signal means our

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frameworks need updating.

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Avery: And it has practical implications for how we

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search for other cold planets. If water ice

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clouds make some wavelengths look much

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fainter than expected, we may be missing

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worlds that don't fit the standard brightness

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profile.

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Anna: The researchers put it this JWST

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is finally letting us study solar system

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analog planets in detail. As lead author

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Elizabeth Matthews said, if we were aliens

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several light years away, looking back at our

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sun, this is the first telescope that could

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study Jupiter in detail. We are living in the

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golden era of exoplanet science, from 12

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Avery: away to right here in our own galaxy.

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And a discovery that reshapes how we

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understand the invisible forces holding the

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Milky Way together.

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Anna: Astronomers at the University of Calgary

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have produced one of the most detailed maps

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ever made of the Milky Way's magnetic field

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and found something deeply unexpected hidden

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inside it. A magnetic flip, a

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reversal in the field's direction cutting

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diagonally through one of our galaxy's main

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spiral arms, the Sagittarius arm.

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Avery: The data came from a new radio

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telescope at the Dominion Radio

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Astrophysical Observatory in British

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Columbia, Canada. The instrument

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scans the sky at multiple radio

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frequencies simultaneously, allowing

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researchers to trace the galaxy's

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magnetic structure using a technique

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called Faraday rotation, measuring

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the way radio waves shift when they pass

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through magnetized plasma.

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Anna: In most of the galaxy, the magnetic field

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flows in a consistent direction along the

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spiral arms. But in the Sagittarius

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arm, the team found a, uh, diagonal

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reversal. The field essentially flips

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orientation across a diagonal line, cutting

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through space. This is the first time this

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structure has been mapped in three

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dimensions.

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Avery: The finding matters because the galaxy's

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magnetic field isn't just a curiosity. It

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shapes where gas flows, where new stars can

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form, and how the galaxy itself evolves

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over billions of years. A detailed map of

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that field gives astronomers a reliable

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baseline for future studies that reach far

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beyond our own galaxy.

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Anna: Bead researcher Dr. Rebecca Booth described

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it as revealing a hidden structure.

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What looks like empty space is anything

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but empty. And thanks to this work, the

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invisible architecture of our own galaxy

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is no longer just a theory. It can be

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studied, tested, and built upon.

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Avery: And finally today, a successful launch close

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to home, at least for our Australian and New

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Zealand listeners.

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Anna: Rocket Lab fired off another electron rocket

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this morning from its Launch Complex 1 on the

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Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. Mission

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name Viva Le Strix. The payload was

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a synthetic aperture radar satellite called

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Strix 7, built for the Japanese Earth

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imaging company Synspective.

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Avery: This is the ninth time Rocket Lab has

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launched a Strix satellite for Synspective. A

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relationship going back to 2020. And with

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another 18 missions already booked through to

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2030, the constellation

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Synspective is building will eventually

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provide continuous SAR imaging of Japan

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and surrounding regions. Data used for

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urban development, planning, infrastructure,

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monitoring, and disaster response.

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Anna: Synthetic aperture radar is worth a quick

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note for those unfamiliar. It's a type of

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imaging that works in total darkness and

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surface with radar pulses and build a

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detailed image from the return signal. That's

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why Synspective called the Constellation

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Strix, the genus of owls they

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Avery: The electron rocket itself is now 70

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flights into its operational life. Small,

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dedicated, reliable, it's become the

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this mission is a textbook example of what it

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specific orbit, a uh, clean deployment Rocket

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Lab doing what Rocket Lab does.

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May 22, 2026. What a

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morning to be alive.

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Avery: And following space news, Starship

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rewriting Exoplanet atmospheric science.

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Our own galaxy just revealed a hidden

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magnetic structure and rocket Lab quietly

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keeps building humanity's eyes in Orb, a

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hillside in New Zealand.

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Anna: Curious. Keep looking up. We'll see you

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tomorrow on Astronomy Daily.

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