A Space Station Crashes to Earth

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

By the time you hear this week’s episode, China’s Tiangong-1 may have spectacularly re-entered our planet’s atmosphere, raining metal on an unpredictable location. The Aerospace Corporation’s Bill Ailor, an expert on space debris, tells us there’s little to worry about, but bigger challenges are ahead in low Earth orbit. Bruce Betts also has his mind on the small space station. Emily Lakdawalla is back from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference with much news to share. NASA finally has a budget for the year already underway! Casey Dreier breaks it down.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A space station crashes to Earth this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar
0:15.8	system and beyond.
0:18.0	Has it happened yet?
0:19.8	As we finished producing this week's show, Tian Gong 1 had not yet re-entered Earth's atmosphere,
0:26.4	creating a magnificent fireworks show that would leave souvenirs on the ground.
0:31.6	No one knows more about space debris than the aerospace
0:35.0	corporations Bill Ailer, and we've got him on this week's show. He'll also tell
0:40.1	us about the crowded sky and will review the status of planetary defense
0:44.8	against near-Earth objects. The Chinese space station is also on Bruce Betts
0:49.7	mine. We'll talk about it and much more on what's up.
0:53.0	NASA finally has a budget for the current fiscal year.
0:57.0	Casey Dreyer will bring us the highlights,
0:59.0	and we begin this big episode with Planetary Society, senior editor Emily Lockdawala.
1:05.2	Emily, welcome back from LPSC.
1:08.3	I know it's one of your favorites every year, the Lunar and Planetary Science
1:12.0	Conference.
1:12.6	How tough is it to decide what you're going to be able to report on?
1:16.6	Well, it doesn't help that I want to clone myself every year
1:19.7	so that I can appear in multiple rooms.
1:22.8	It does help that there are a lot of people
1:25.1	who have the same problem, and so we all tweet for each other,
	...

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