Episodes
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Launching satellites is super complex and it is awesome to see how university, college, and high school students are going all in with CubeSats. In this episode of NASA EDGE, we’ll hear how NASA’s Cubesat Launch Initiative, the University Nanosatellite Program, and many others are working together to help students develop, build, launch and operate their own small satellites to conduct Lunar, search and rescue, and even biological missions. From the Missions Concepts Program to Thomas Jefferson High School, these kids are taking DYI to low earth orbit and beyond.
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NASA is ready to launch TEMPO, its first instrument on a commercial satellite primarily focused on gathering hourly daytime data on air pollutants. This takes spectrometry to a whole new geosynchronous level. And if you like big words, you’ll love the game show, NOT MY TEMPO. All this and more on NASA EDGE: TEMPO! Be sure to check it out!
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Get ready for the launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission with NASA EDGE. With guests from NASA, Thales Alenia Space, and Launch Services, we cover everything you need to follow this critical earth science mission. SWOT will measure water height on both oceans and fresh waters sources like rivers and lakes to give scientists an unprecedented understanding of how our water table works.
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NASA EDGE scores a hat trick with the Best of Live JPSS-2 Tower Rollback show featuring three amazing missions and milestones. First, JPSS-2, NOAA’s ongoing mission to provide essential data an imagery to improve weather prediction. Second, LOFTID, NASA’s technology demonstration mission featuring an inflatable decelerator! And finally, with this launch NASA’s Launch Services celebrates its 100th mission! Plus, there are a few surprise offerings from NASA EDGE as well
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Artemis I is launching soon, and even NASA has its own front-row seat for the launch with Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery (SCIFLI). During launch and recovery, the NASA SCIFLI team will capture super high-fidelity imagery of the rocket and parachutes on re-entry across multiple spectrums. Join NASA EDGE as they hear first-hand from the SCIFLI team about how this imagery will help NASA, Artemis, and even future missions operate safely and efficiently. Also, we get the latest on SCIFLI’s newest instrument, SCIFLI Airborne Multispectral Imager (SAMI), flying aboard NASA’s WB-57.
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It’s the season of sequels, reboots, and blockbusters, and Honey, I Shrunk the Payload Challenge may be the hit of the summer. NASA EDGE looks at the three finalists competing to develop incredibly small payloads to potentially fly to the moon with NASA and how they were inspired to scale down their instruments for challenge success! Plus, NASA EDGE explores their own miniaturization techniques. Check it out.
NASA’s Honey, I Shrunk the Payload Challenge was made possible by the NASA Tournament Lab, which is part of the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) in NASA’s Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing program. It was funded by the agency's Game Changing Development Program in support of NASA's Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative, which aims to enable human and robotic exploration on the Moon and future operations on Mars.
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On February 28, 2022, NASA EDGE provided live coverage of the rollout of NOAA’s GOES-T satellite from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. GOES-T is the third in a series of four satellites specifically flown to provide a continuous record of high-quality imagery, weather, environmental, and space weather data for the entire Western Hemisphere. Guest on the show include NOAA’s GOES-R Program System Program Director Pam Sullivan, NOAA’s GOES-R Chief Scientist Dan Lindsay, NASA GOES-R Deputy System Program Director Ed Grigsby, NASA GOES-R Flight Project Manager Candace Carlisle, and our good buddy, Mic Woltman from NASA’s Launch Services Program. Today’s forecast: 100% visibility with a slight chance of buffering.
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On December 8, 2021 NASA EDGE provided live coverage for the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. IXPE will give scientists around the world an unprecedented look at some of our galaxies most mysterious and complex objects, like Black Holes, Neutron Stars, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and more. Guests on the show include NASA Astrophysics Division Director Paul Hertz, IXPE Deputy Principal Investigator Brian Ramsey, IXPE Lead Mirror Scientist Stephen Bongiorno, IXPE Project Manager Randy Baggett, and NASA Launch Program Office’s Mic Woltman.
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NASA EDGE talks NASA Heliophysics, NASA Solar Missions, Eclipses, and Space Weather as the perfect setup for exclusive, high-resolution footage of the 2021 Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse. Join Blair and Franklin as the talk with NASA Scientists Kelly Korreck, Michael Kirk, and Jesse Woodroffe before sharing this exclusive eclipse footage provided by the J. M. Pasachoff Antarctic Eclipse Expedition.
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On November 22, 2021 NASA EDGE provide coverage of the transition of the SpaceX Falcon 9 going vertical prior to the launch of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Associate Administrator Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Planetary Science Division Director Lori Glaze, and NASA’s Launch Services Program Office’s Mic Woltman and more joined the show to discuss this amazing proof of concept mission for our planet’s defense.
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Prior to the launch of the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration, the NASA EDGE Co-Host develops and tests his own version of laser communication as a proof of concept. While Chris and Franklin consider Blair’s highly suspect beta version, the entire team looks at the history and development of NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) with multiple experts from Lincoln Labs and NASA.
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On October 14th, 2021 NASA EDGE provided live coverage of the Lucy Rollout at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Several members of the Lucy team joined the show. Lucy Program Scientist Tom Statler, Deputy Project Systems Engineer Mike Sekerak, and L’Ralph Instrument Data Scientist Hannah Kaplan were live on set, while T2Cam Calibration Team and gradaute student Amy Zhou joined virtually. Rounding out the latest on the rocket’s trip to the pad, NASA’s Launch Services Program very Mic Woltman kept us up to date on the final pre-launch status of this incredible planetary mission to the Trojan Asteroids.
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On September 27th, 2021 NASA EDGE provided live coverage of the Landsat 9 Tower Roll at Vandenberg Space Force Center in California. Deputy Project Scientist Bruce Cook, TIRS-2 Instrument Project Manager Jason Hair, NASA’s Launch Services’ own Mic Woltman, and more joined the show to share their insight into this incredible Earth observing mission.
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How do you top higher and higher drop tests? You add an extreme swing test to your portfolio. In this test for the Orion Structural Test Article (STA), NASA will gather performance data by simulating landing in “extreme” conditions. Bryan Russ, Project Manager for the Orion Water Impact Tests at NASA Langley Research Center, takes us through the finer points of preparing for both increased angle and velocity for impact. And though NASA doesn’t intend to land at this steep angle, the data will help engineers understand the Orion and its capabilities for future missions.
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Will the Orion get the data it needs from this third key drop test and remain the uncontested bellyflop champion? Mark Baldwin from Lockheed Martin, explains how the massive amount of onboard sensors collect data to help enhance Orion’s performance as it prepares for eventual human space flight for the Artemis Program. The data will take some time to analyze, but check out the splashdown. We give Orion a 10!
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How did MEDLI2 get all of the incredible data during entry, descent, and landing on Mars? Look no further than the engineering. MEDLI2 Chief Engineer Chris Kuhl explains how overcoming several engineering challenges helped gather unprecedented data before Perseverance even began to roll.
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If you’re looking to clear some space on the lunar surface, pick up some extra water, and break a few lunar travel distance records, look no further than the Lunar Pilot Excavator! Kurt Leucht, of Swamp Works at NASA Kennedy Space Center, explains how this latest tech demonstration mission will pave the way for NASA’s permenant presence on the moon!
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Perseverance is already collecting science on the surface of Mars, but MEDLI2 actually collected significant scientific data on the way to the surface. NASA EDGE Co-Host Franklin Fitzgerald talked with Mars Entry Descent and Landing Instrument 2 (MEDLI2) Principal Investigator Todd White about how NASA is continuing to learn about the very dramatic and mysterious transition through the Martian atmosphere all the way down to the surface. Basically, MEDLI studied and stuck the landing!
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It is a huge challenge to send astronauts to the Moon, but it is also critical to bring them home safely. NASA EDGE’s Blair Allen talks with Christine St. Germain, NASA’s Test Director for Landing and Recovery at KSC, about the Orion Underway Recovery Tests (URT) for the Orion spacecraft. The URTs are complex simulations of how the Orion spacecraft performs in open water after landing at sea. Plus, both NASA and the NAVY practice multiple spacecraft recovery techniques in the process. Christine moves all of the chess pieces around to get the performance data from the URTs to help NASA engineers prepare the Orion for mission success from launch all the way to landing!
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Not only did Mars 2020 and Perseverance survive the seven minutes of terror during entry, descent, and landing on the surface of Mars, they also collected a lot of key performance data! NASA EDGE’s Franklin Fitzgerald chats with Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrument 2 Project Manager Henry Wright about the latest success with Perseverance and how the MEDLI2 data will help future missions to Mars and other planets carry more mass and stay safe at the same time
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