Deep space navigator Coralie Adam explains the tricky navigation needed to guide NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on its flyby of the Pluto system in 2015. The spacecraft continues operation today. Meanwhile, Adam and colleagues are awaiting the arrival of a touch-and-go sample garnered from the asteroid Bennu which is expected back at Earth in 2023. We discuss how deep space navigation is facilitating the precise exploration of the solar system.
Episode 47 --- How Palomar Observatory Changed Almost Everything We Knew About Astronomy
Episode 46 – Harvard Geologist Andy Knoll Sums Up The Grand Sweep Of Earth’s History
Episode 45 --- The Incredible Story of Flying Tiger Flight 923’s North Atlantic Ditching
Episode 44 --- ESA’s Upcoming Euclid Dark Energy Survey
Episode 43 --- What Future And Final Galaxy Surveys Will Teach Us About The Cosmos
Episode 42 --- Neil DeGrasse Tyson Talks About His New Book “Cosmic Queries”
Episode 41 --- The History Of Space Exploration In 100 Objects
Episode 40 --- Cosmic Cataclysms And The Evolution Of Intelligent Life On Earth
Episode 39 --- What NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is Teaching The Rest Of Us.
Episode 38 --- The Trouble With Dark Energy
Episode 37 --- Is Oumuamua, Our Solar System’s 1st Identified Interstellar Asteroid, Actually An Alien Probe?
Episode 36 --- NASA Aims For The Geophysical Heart Of Mars
Episode 35 ---America’s Heroic World War II Air Raid On Ploesti --- The ‘Taproot’ Of Nazi Oil
Episode 34 --- Why Geology Is Crucial To Unlocking The Mysteries Of Our Solar System
Episode 33 --- How Pan Am Changed The World
Episode 31 --- Interstellar Propulsion --- What We Need to Make Star Trek Real
Episode 30 --- Uranus and Neptune --- Our Solar System’s Mysterious Ice Giants
Episode 29 --- How the Cold War Spurred the Race for Supersonic Flight
Episode 28 --- The Glenn Miller Disappearance: One of World War II’s Greatest Aviation Mysteries
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