SPEXcast

SPEXcast

88 episodes

SPEXcast is a weekly podcast diving into a variety of space topics. Come with us as we discuss the cutting edge of spacecraft engineering, potential future missions to outer space, and exciting scientific discoveries in the field of astrophysics.

Podcasts

84: Inspiration4

Published: Sept. 15, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 58 seconds

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82: NASA Selects SpaceX for HLS

Published: April 27, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 16 seconds

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81: The ISS gets new wings

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 33 seconds

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80: Rethinking Aerospace Design Tools with nTopology

Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 36 seconds

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79: Talking Starlink and Fiber Internet with Stealth Communications

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 9 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 47 seconds

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78: Virgin Orbit's Will Pomerantz

Published: July 28, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 31 seconds

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77: SpaceX Starship SN4 explosion

Published: July 21, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 45 seconds

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76: SpaceX DM-2 and the Impact of Commercial Crew

Published: June 1, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 3 seconds

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75: SPHEREx with Dr. Michael Zemcov

Published: May 20, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 17 seconds

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74: NASA Human Landing System Selection

Published: May 13, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 1 second

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73: Can the Space Industry survive Coronavirus?

Published: April 16, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 4 seconds

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72: 2019 Recap and Looking Forward to 2020 in Space

Published: March 17, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 42 seconds

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71: In-Space Refueling with Orbit Fab's James Bultitude

Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 59 seconds

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70: SpaceX Starlink Takes Flight

Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 57 seconds

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69: Improving the Spaceport America Cup for 2019

Published: July 18, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 21 seconds

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68: Space Policy with SpacePolicyOnline.com's Marcia Smith

Published: July 18, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 seconds

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67: NASA's AWEsome Atmospheric Waves Experiment and DALI Awards

Published: May 9, 2019, 8:08 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 49 seconds

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66: Robotic Exploration with SpaceIL and Hayabusa2

Published: April 1, 2019, 8:09 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 22 seconds

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65: Commercial Crew Takes Flight to LEO and Beyond

Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 6:11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 56 seconds

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64: SpaceX Raptor Breathes Fire and Virgin Galactic Takes Flight

Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 6:14 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 32 seconds

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63: Student Innovation at Spaceport America Cup 2018

Published: Sept. 13, 2018, 6:01 a.m.
Duration: 2 hours 11 minutes 24 seconds

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62: On-Demand Satellite Constellations with York Space Systems' Charles Beames

Published: Aug. 8, 2018, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 59 seconds

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61: Unlocking the Potential of Synthetic Aperture Radar with ICEYE's Pekka Laurila

Published: June 22, 2018, 10:45 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 11 seconds

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60: SpaceX Flight Control, CRS-15 Payloads, and Chinese Lunar Missions

Published: June 16, 2018, 5:20 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 33 seconds

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59: Copenhagen Suborbitals with Mads Wilson

Published: June 4, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 5 seconds

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58: Terraforming Mars: Challenges and Misconceptions

Published: June 1, 2018, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 12 seconds

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57: Mars Rover Operations with Doug Klein

Published: May 21, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 seconds

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56: Mars Cube One, the first interplanetary CubeSats with Joel Steinkraus

Published: May 12, 2018, 1:45 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 6 seconds

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55: Digging into Mars with InSight's Troy Hudson, Instrument Systems Engineer

Published: May 4, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 seconds

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54: SpaceX's New Mars Rocket Factory and a Fully-Reusable Falcon 9

Published: April 27, 2018, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 32 seconds

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53: NASA's New Administrator, OmegA, and Europa Clipper

Published: April 20, 2018, 9 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 42 seconds

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52: HAB4 - RIT Space Exploration's latest mission

Published: April 16, 2018, 2 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 28 seconds

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51: NOAA Controversy, New Glenn Evolution, and Tiangong-1 Re-entry

Published: April 6, 2018, 8 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 27 seconds

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50: CRS-7 Public Report and Satellite 2018

Published: April 2, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 50 seconds

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49: Christian Davenport Interview

Published: March 23, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 52 seconds

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48: MIT New Space Age Conference and SXSW

Published: March 17, 2018, 1:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 40 seconds

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47: GOES-S, StarLink, and the Challenges of Space Engineering Programs

Published: March 10, 2018, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 52 seconds

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46: 2 Years of SPEXcast

Published: March 2, 2018, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 16 seconds

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45: Holly Griffith - Space Shuttle Flight Controller and Orion Safety Engineer

Published: March 1, 2018, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 28 seconds

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44: NASA Budget 2019

Published: Feb. 25, 2018, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 49 seconds

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43: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Flies!

Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 8:15 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 15 seconds

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42: SPEXcast Space News Recap: Winter 2018

Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 52 seconds

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41: SPEXcast Book Club: Ignition Chapter 1 and 2

Published: Nov. 2, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 52 seconds

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40: Post-IAC 2017 Discussion

Published: Oct. 17, 2017, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 19 seconds

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39: Pre-IAC Predications 2017

Published: Sept. 26, 2017, 5 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 24 seconds

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38: SmallSat Conference 2017

Published: Sept. 19, 2017, 8:45 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 53 seconds

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37: Green Propellant Infusion Mission

Published: Aug. 27, 2017, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 31 seconds

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36: ISS Research and Development Conference and Elon Musk Keynote

Published: Aug. 10, 2017, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 10 seconds

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35: NASA Authorization Bill and New Glenn

Published: April 28, 2017, 4:20 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 55 seconds

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34: Rocket Reuse Revisted

Published: April 21, 2017, 3:20 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 41 seconds

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SPEXcast Wallops and CSTARS Update

Published: March 29, 2017, 6 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes

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33: SpaceX Lunar Mission (Grey Dragon)

Published: March 15, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 35 seconds

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32: Trappist-1

Published: March 8, 2017, 2 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 20 seconds

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31b: Generation Ships

Published: March 2, 2017, 5 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 48 seconds

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31a: Weekly News for 2-24-2017

Published: March 2, 2017, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 53 seconds

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30: Meta Discussion on Spacecraft Construction and Design

Published: Feb. 23, 2017, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 50 seconds

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29: 2016 Year in Review

Published: Feb. 15, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 1 second

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Season 3 Promo

Published: Feb. 8, 2017, 6:20 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 49 seconds

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28: James Webb Space Telescope

Published: Feb. 1, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 56 seconds

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27: NASA Cubesats

Published: Dec. 23, 2016, 4:15 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 50 seconds

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26: Skywatch

Published: Nov. 30, 2016, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 44 seconds

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25: Solar Science & STEREO

Published: Nov. 23, 2016, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 27 seconds

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24: Open Source Hardware & STEMN.com

Published: Nov. 9, 2016, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 13 seconds

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23: Orion with Dustin Neill

Published: Oct. 21, 2016, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 21 seconds

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22: SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

Published: Oct. 12, 2016, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 3 seconds

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21: Pre IAC Predications

Published: Sept. 24, 2016, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 30 seconds

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Space From The Ground Up: Why We Explore

Published: Sept. 15, 2016, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 3 seconds

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20: Tory Bruno

Published: Sept. 7, 2016, 3:05 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 11 seconds

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19: Commander Chris Hadfield

Published: Aug. 24, 2016, 3:05 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 26 seconds

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18b: Small Satellite Conference 2016

Published: Aug. 17, 2016, 6:05 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 9 seconds

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18a: Gywnne Shotwell Small Satellite Conference Reactions

Published: Aug. 17, 2016, 6 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 1 second

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17: Brendan Byrne Interview

Published: Aug. 7, 2016, 10 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 45 seconds

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16: SPEXcast News Roundup July 2016

Published: Aug. 4, 2016, 10 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 40 seconds

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15: VIOLET

Published: July 13, 2016, 10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 56 seconds

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14: SPEXcast News Roundup June 2016

Published: July 8, 2016, 10 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 43 seconds

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SPEXcast Summer Series Update

Published: June 24, 2016, 9 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds

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13: Asteroid Mining and Public Policy

Published: May 20, 2016, 7 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 38 seconds

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12: SPEXcast Live!

Published: May 11, 2016, 3 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds

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11: Spaceplanes

Published: May 4, 2016, 3 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 27 seconds

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10: Cubesats

Published: April 28, 2016, 3 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 30 seconds

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9: Cryonics

Published: April 21, 2016, 6:15 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 24 seconds

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8: RIT Astronomy Week

Published: April 13, 2016, 6:15 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 24 seconds

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7: Rocket Propulsion

Published: April 6, 2016, 3 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 20 seconds

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6: Interplanetary Travel

Published: March 30, 2016, 7:50 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 55 seconds

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5: Q&A with the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation

Published: March 23, 2016, 6 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 18 seconds

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4: Asteroid Mining

Published: March 16, 2016, 3 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 28 seconds

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3: Moon vs. Mars

Published: March 7, 2016, 1 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 33 seconds

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2b: Brave New World

Published: March 1, 2016, 9 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes

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2a: Gravitational Waves

Published: March 1, 2016, 7 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds

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1: Rocket Reusability

Published: March 1, 2016, 5 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 38 seconds

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