The DART asteroid impact mission begins, with Nancy Chabot
DART coordination lead Nancy Chabot and the rest of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test team will see their spacecraft rocket toward asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos in a few days. She returns to Plan...
17 Nov 202152min
Spacecraft communications and navigation with Badri Younes
Badri Younes says that a spacecraft that can’t communicate or find its way is worthless. He leads SCaN, NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program, which manages resources like the agency’s De...
10 Nov 202159min
Space Policy Edition: We're entering a new era of planetary defense (with Lindley Johnson)
The first in-space test of asteroid deflection technology, DART, launches this month. Lindley Johnson, NASA's planetary defense coordination officer, joins the show to talk about how this mission repr...
5 Nov 20211h 11min
Sarah Al Amiri and the new UAE mission to the asteroid belt
The chair of the United Arab Emirates space agency returns with news of an ambitious mission to explore seven asteroids. Sarah also shares the latest science from the Emirates Mars Mission Hope orbite...
3 Nov 202148min
Sally Ride: Revisiting our 2005 conversation
Host Mat Kaplan has wanted to reshare his first conversation with the great Sally Ride for years. Sally talks about women in space, the loss of space shuttle Challenger, and her devotion to sharing th...
27 Okt 202130min
Amazing Technology at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium
Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan interviewed NIAC Fellows about their revolutionary projects as part of the 2021 virtual symposium. You’ll hear highlights including how we might grow structures on the ...
20 Okt 20211h 18min
Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission
A delightful, exclusive conversation with principal investigator Hal Levison, deputy principal investigator Cathy Olkin and deputy project systems engineer Mike Sekerak on the eve of Lucy’s launch tow...
13 Okt 20211h 2min
Why didn’t Dawn land on dwarf planet Ceres?
It started with a question from a listener. The answer comes from Dawn mission chief engineer and mission director Marc Rayman. Marc also tells us about his new job as chief engineer for mission opera...
6 Okt 202138min
