Blue Origin’s Next Steps, Ispace’s Moon Mission, and Asteroids Under the Microscope: S04E39
Astronomy Daily - The Podcast: S04E39
In this episode of Astronomy Daily, host Anna takes you on an exhilarating exploration of the latest happenings in the world of space exploration. From Blue Origin's ambitious new rocket plans to the thrilling journey of ispace's Resilience lunar lander, this episode is packed with captivating stories that will fuel your cosmic curiosity.
Highlights:
- Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Update: Discover the latest developments regarding Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket as the company prepares for its second launch. Learn about the challenges faced during the first flight and the significant restructuring within the company aimed at improving efficiency and focus.
- Ispace's Resilience Lunar Lander: Follow the exciting progress of ispace's Resilience lander as it approaches a historic moon landing attempt. Understand the innovative fuel-saving trajectory it is taking and the scientific payloads it carries, including the Micro Rover.
- James Webb Space Telescope's Role in Asteroid Tracking: Delve into how the James Webb Space Telescope is set to play a crucial role in assessing the potential impact risk of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has raised concerns among astronomers worldwide.
- SpaceX's Starship Preparations: Get the latest on SpaceX's preparations for their eighth Starship test flight, including successful engine tests and modifications that are being made in anticipation of the upcoming launch.
- Remarkable Spacecraft Resurrections: Be inspired by incredible stories of spacecraft that have defied the odds and returned from the brink of oblivion, showcasing the resilience of technology and the spirit of exploration.
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Thank you for tuning in. This is Anna signing off. Until next time, keep looking up and stay curious about the wonders of our universe.
00:00 - Welcome back to Astronomy Daily
01:02 - Blue Origin's New Glenn updates
05:30 - Ispace's Resilience lunar lander progress
10:15 - James Webb Telescope and asteroid 2024 YR4
14:00 - SpaceX's Starship preparations
18:20 - Stories of spacecraft resurrections
25:00 - Conclusion and upcoming content
✍️ Episode References
Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket
[Blue Origin](https://www.nasa.gov/webb)
SpaceX's Starship Updates
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00:00 - Welcome back to Astronomy Daily
01:02 - Blue Origin’s New Glenn updates
05:30 - Ispace’s Resilience lunar lander progress
10:15 - James Webb Telescope and asteroid 2024 YR4
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Hey space enthusiasts you're tuned in to
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another exciting episode of astronomy
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daily where we bring you the most
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fascinating stories from the frontiers
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of space exploration today's lineup is
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packed with Incredible developments from
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across the space industry we'll be
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diving into blue Origins latest plans
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for their massive new Glenn rocket and
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some significant changes within the
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company we'll also check in on iac's
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resilience lunar lander as it makes its
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way toward a historic moon landing
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attempt in other news will'll explore
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how the James web Space Telescope might
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help us better understand a potentially
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hazardous asteroid that's caught the
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attention of astronomers worldwide plus
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we'll get you up to speed on spacex's
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latest Starship
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preparations and to wrap things up I've
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got some absolutely remarkable stories
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about spacecraft that have literally
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come back from the dead trust me these
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Tales of space Resurrection will blow
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your mind so strap in and get ready for
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your daily dose of space news and
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discovery
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let's dive into our first story of the
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day some major developments from Blue
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origin the company has announced plans
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for their second new Glenn launch
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targeting late spring this year note
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that's late spring in the northern
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hemisphere so for southern hemisphere
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listeners that will be late fall or
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Autumn this comes after their first
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launch in January which while achieving
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many mission objectives encountered some
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issues during the booster recovery
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attempt Dave limp blue Origins CEO
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recently shed some light on what went
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wrong during that first flight flight it
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appears they experienced a propulsion
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related problem that prevented the
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massive booster from making its planned
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Landing according to limp While most
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engine conditions were nominal they had
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trouble getting everything properly
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flowing from the tanks to the engines
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during the critical re-entry burn the
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good news is that blue origin believes
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they've identified the root cause and
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the fixes needed aren't particularly
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complex this is crucial because the
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ability to reuse these massive boosters
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is Central to Blue Origins business
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model the company already has a second
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booster in production and they're
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confident this investigation won't
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significantly impact their launch
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timeline while they haven't announced
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what payload will fly on this second
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mission limp mentioned they're
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considering several options they're
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treating their first three flights as
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development missions so while they're
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open to Flying commercial payloads
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they're prepared to use Mass simulators
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if
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necessary however this news comes
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alongside a significant rest ruring at
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Blue origin the company announced this
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week that they're reducing their
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Workforce by about 10% affecting more
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than 1,000 employees across various
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departments including management
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engineering R and D and project
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management limp explained that the
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company had grown and hired very rapidly
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in recent years which led to increased
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bureaucracy and less Focus than needed
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the restructuring aims to streamline
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operations and improve manufacturing
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efficiency as they scale up their launch
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Cadence despite these Cuts blue origin
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isn't hitting the brakes on growth
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entirely they're still planning to hire
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hundreds of new employees this year but
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with a more targeted focus on
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manufacturing and operations the company
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is particularly keen on ramping up
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production of their new Glenn rockets
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and advancing work on their blue moon
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lunar lander which they hope will reach
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the lunar surface later this
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year next up the Japanese space
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exploration company ipace is making
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exciting progress with their second
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lunar Mission their resilience Lander
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which launched on January 15th aboard a
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is now preparing
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for a crucial lunar flyby that marks a
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significant milestone in its Journey To
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The Moon unlike the more direct routes
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taken by some lunar missions resilience
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is taking what we might call the scenic
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route an energy efficient circuitous
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path that will ultimately save valuable
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fuel last week the spacecraft
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successfully completed a critical
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maneuver that set up this upcoming lunar
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flyby positioning it perfectly for this
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fuel-saving gravity assist what's
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particularly fascinating about this
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flyby is that while it will create the
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mission's largest change in velocity the
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spacecraft won't actually feel any
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acceleration it's all thanks to The
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Elegant physics of gravitational forces
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the close pass by the moon will
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naturally alter resilience's trajectory
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setting it up for the second phase of
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its Journey using what's called a low
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energy transfer
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as of this week resilience was already
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positioned beyond the moon's orbit about
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286,000 miles from Earth if all goes
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according to plan the spacecraft will
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attempt to land in Mar frigoris the Sea
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of cold in the moon's Northern
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Hemisphere around late May or early June
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the Lander isn't traveling alone on this
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ambitious Journey it's carrying several
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payloads including the tenacious micro
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Rover which will conduct mobile
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exploration of the lunar surface this
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mission represents an important step
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forward for private lunar exploration
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especially following I space's previous
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landing attempt interestingly resilience
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shared its launch with another lunar
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bound spacecraft Firefly aerospace's
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Blue Ghost Lander which has already
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successfully completed its trans lunar
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injection burn and is on track for its
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own lunar
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encounter next up I felt we needed a
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small update to this next story as you
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may have noticed the popular press seems
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to be getting themselves into quite a
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state what's the popular saying we're
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all going to die not quite but this a
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developing story that's certainly
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capturing the attention of astronomers
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worldwide and now the James web Space
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Telescope is being called upon to help
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determine the potential impact risk of
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asteroid 2024 yr4 this space Rock
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currently has a 2.1% chance of colliding
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with Earth on December 22nd
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2032 a probability that's actually
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increased slightly from the initial 1
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.2% estimate in late January so far more
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than 50 observatories have contributed
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over 350 observations of this asteroid
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but pinning down its exact trajectory
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has proved challenging the object is
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currently more than 65 million km away
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and rapidly fading from view making it
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increasingly difficult to track with
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groundbased
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telescopes the full moon is currently
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interfering with observations and as the
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asteroid continues to dim to magnitude
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24 only the largest telescopes on Earth
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can still detect it this is where web
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comes in the Space Telescope is
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scheduled to make crucial observations
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in March and May long after the asteroid
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becomes too faint for other instruments
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to track a team led by Andy rivkin at
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John's Hopkins university has secured 4
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hours of web's observing time their
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observations will serve two crucial
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purposes first to better estimate the
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asteroid's size and then to help refine
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its orbital parameters this data could
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prove Pro decisive in determining
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whether Earth is actually in
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danger efforts to find previous
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observations of the asteroid from 2016
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when it last passed close to Earth have
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so far come up empty despite thorough
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searches through archival data from
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various observatories no confirmatory
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images have been found while these
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negative observations can sometimes be
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useful they must be treated with Extreme
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Caution when calculating orbital
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predictions this situation has led to
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2024 y R4 receiving a Torino scale
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rating of three the second highest
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ranking ever assigned to a potential
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impact threat only asteroid apus
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previously reached a higher rating of
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four back in 2004 though it was quickly
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determined to pose no danger unlike apus
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the uncertainty around 2024 y r4s
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trajectory means we may not have a
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definitive answer about its impact risk
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until its next close approach in 2028
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unless web's observations can help
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result solve the mystery
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sooner next let's take a look at what
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Starship has been up to this week as
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SpaceX gears up for its eth Starship
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test flight the company has been
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conducting crucial pre-flight tests at
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their Starbase facility in Texas just
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last weekend they completed a full
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duration static fire test of the super
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heavy booster successfully igniting all
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33 Raptor engines on the massive 233t
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rocket stage following the booster test
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space X turned their attention to
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Starship itself
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conducting engine tests on Tuesday
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evening at a separate test stand near
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the launch facilities this test was more
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extensive than the boosters putting the
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engines through various thrust levels to
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simulate the different conditions the
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propulsion system will experience during
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actual flight the company has also
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introduced some new hardware
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modifications for this upcoming launch
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though specific details haven't been
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disclosed once these tests are complete
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the Starship vehicle will be transported
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to join its super heavy partner at the
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Launchpad where the two will be stacked
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together when fully assembled this
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engineering Marvel stands an impressive
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43 ft tall with the Starship portion
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alone exceeding the height of the Statue
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of Liberty this launch follows January's
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if7 Mission which saw mixed results
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while that flight achieved some
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successes including a successful catch
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of the super heavy booster by the launch
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Tower's Chopstick Arms contact with the
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Starship portion was lost about 8.5
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minutes into the flight the vehicle was
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later observed breaking up over the
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Caribbean Space X is targeting a launch
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date at the end of February though this
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timeline depends on several factors
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including receiving the necessary launch
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license from the Federal Aviation
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Administration this will mark their
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second Starship launch of
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2025 as the company Works toward their
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ambitious goal of completing 25 launches
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this year these test flights are drawing
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increasing attention as NASA's 2027 emis
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3 mission approaches a mission that will
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rely on Starship to land astronauts on
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the lunar
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surface I love this next story in the
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fascinating world of space exploration
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not every mission that goes dark stays
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that way sometimes Against All Odds
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spacecraft we thought were lost forever
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managed to phone home again let me share
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some remarkable stories of these
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space-based Resurrection events take the
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case of serby a small satellite launched
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in 2023 to study Earth's radiation belts
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after completing its initial four-month
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Mission so successfully that NASA
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extended it serby suddenly went dark in
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April 2024 the team was devastated
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especially when massive solar storms hit
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Earth in May exactly the kind of event
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serby was designed to study but then
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something extraordinary happened on May
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23rd out of nowhere serby signal
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returned though it only stayed alive for
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2 and 1/2 days before falling silent
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again it wasn't finished yet the Plucky
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little spacecraft came back once more on
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June 10th this time for good at least
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until its planned re-entry in October
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even more remarkable is the story of
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NASA's image spacecraft launched in 2000
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to study Earth's magnetosphere image
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operated flawlessly for 5 years before
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suddenly going silent in December 2005
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for over a decade everyone assumed it
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was dead then in January 2018 an amateur
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radio astronomer accidentally picked up
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its signal while searching for something
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else
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entirely when NASA reestablished contact
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they discovered something fascinating
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the spacecraft had been stuck in a
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bizarre Loop rebooting itself every 72
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hours for 13 years straight unable to
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properly power its communication system
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it was like a patient in a coma alive
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but unable to reach out to the world
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these revivals aren't always accidental
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sometimes spacecraft are deliberately
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put into hibernation like the European
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space agency's jotto mission after
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visiting hi's comet in 1986 it was
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powered down to conserve energy only to
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be awakened four years later for another
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Comet encounter even NASA's wise
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telescope got a second life after
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completing its initial Mission and being
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shut down it was reactivated as NE wise
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to hunt for potentially hazardous
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asteroids these stories remind us that
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in space exploration sometimes patience
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and persistence can bring seemingly lost
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missions back from the brink providing
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unexpected opportunities for new
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discoveries
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and that wraps up today's episode of
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astronomy daily I'm Anna and I've
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enjoyed bringing you these fascinating
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stories from the world of space
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exploration and astronomy from Blue
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Origins latest developments to
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miraculous spacecraft revivals it's been
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