Interplanetary Podcast

This week we talk a lot about the amazing Planck Space Telescope and it's heroics with the Cosmic Background Radiation seeing back to the start of time from it's Lissajous orbit in the shade of the Legrange point. We have time for a bit of space news SpaceX testing the latest and last of it's Falcon 9 rockets the Block 5 Curiosity finds a new way to drill on mars, like a dad on DIY monday. TGO ExoMars finishes it's aerobraking manouvres NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin retunr to earth European Astronaut centre shifting emphasis to deep space missions with a new Lunar facility Deep Space Gateway is now called the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway JAXA H-IIA rocket launches Spy Satellite Paul Allen's Stratolaunch aircraft does more taxiing SpaceX’s Mr. Steven, the fairing catching glove Quick Investigation Pinpoints Cause of Ariane 5 Partial Failure