#62 - Everything Happening in 2018

The first Podcast of the year - The preview of the YEAR 2018 !!! Out a little early Can you spot the mission in the cover shot? We launch our Patreon page Recording on January the 1st 2018 News Angosat has been recued!!! Progress MS-06 freighter undocks from ISS Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space, has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Prof Michele Dougherty from Imperial College, London, has become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire 2018 Preview UK 2018 will be the Year of Engineering Falcon 9 heavy January 15, no date has yet been officially, Rocket fans should be cautious using this date to book flights, before Spacex conduct a successful Static Fire test, after all they have 27 Engines to test (started in pairs in a 120ms sequence) Rocket lab electron launch Second attempt for this New Zealand outfit to get their rocket orbital after a delay from December India 10th Jan PSLV with 2 surrey satellite satellites on board more details next week including planetary Resources-built Arkyd-6 Chandrayaan 2 will comprise an orbiter, lander and rover developed by the country's space agency, ISRO. The mission is currently slated to launch on a GSLV rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh around March. JAXA ss-520 TESS NASA’s next exoplanet-hunting spacecraft launch on a falcon 9 in march Crew Dragon Musk says he is confident the company will fly people in 2018 SpaceX is scheduled to do an uncrewed test flight of the Dragon capsule in April, followed by the first crewed flight test in August. possible Block 5 version of Falcon 9 maiden flight Starliner Boeing is targeting August for an uncrewed flight of the Starliner and a crewed flight for November. Virgin Galactic Should soon begin powered test flights of VSS Unity and Virgin Galagtic Launcher one!!! NASA’s InSight Mars lander Launched on on a Atlas V rocket, the 30-day launch window from May 5th. It should land on Mars around the end of November. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Launched on Delta IV Heavy rocket a month later between July 31st and August 19th . NASA’s OSIRIS-REx August, the spacecraft will come within 1.2 million miles of Bennu. OSIRIS-REx will then use its onboard propulsion catch up with the asteroid. JAXA’s Hayabusa2 Expected to arrive at it’s target the asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) in July 2018, survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020 JAXA’s and ESA’s BepiColombo The spacecraft are set to launch combined on top of a European Ariane 5 rocket in October and will arrive at Mercury in 2025 CHINA Chang'e 4 Will launch the lander/rover in the latter part of the year CHINA Tianhe-1 First of three large modules that will make up the completed Chinese Space Station SpaceX Space Tourists!!! Lunar trip on a falcon heavy for 2 tourists in a crew dragon One web might start flying up on a European Soyuz Arianne 6 In October 2018, when the launch complex has been constructed, the validation phase will begin By the first quarter of 2018, key decisions will be made on the exploitation of Ariane 6. REACTION ENGINES If you enjoy why not join the BIS at www.bis-space.com the oldest space advocacy organisation in the world. Subscribe on iTunes itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1097505801 Subscribe on Stitcher www.stitcher.com/podcast/interplanetary-podcast Hosts: Matt Russell and Jamie Franklin Music: Matt Russell / Iam7 Additional Narration: George Russell www.interplanetary.org.uk @interplanetypod