Weekly Space Hangout
The Weekly Space Hangout with Fraser Cain and our team of Journalists brings you the latest in space news as well as interviews with special guests from the space and science community. This podcast is funded through Patreon.com/CosmoQuestX and produced out of the Planetary Science Institute.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 81
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2023
Weekly Space Hangout — June 8, 2022: News Roundup!
It's another week of news, news, and even MORE news!
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Weekly Space Hangout — June 1, 2022: Fuel Cell Technology and Space Applications with Ian Jakupca, NASA Glenn Research Center
Developing reliable, renewable, and safe power/energy storage systems is a key requirement for future space missions, both within our solar system and those venturing beyond it, as well as for establ…
Weekly Space Hangout — May 25, 2022: Why Hello Sag A* - It's Nice to Finally See You, with Dr. Lia Medeiros
On May 12th, 2022, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first-ever direct image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Tonight we are very pleased to welcome…
Weekly Space Hangout: May 18, 2022 — Bringing Exoplanets into Focus, Bit by Bit with Alex Madurowicz
NOTE: We apologize for the audio issues in this week's podcast. We are working to diagnose and resolve the issues, and we appreciate your patience as we do so.
Gravitational lensing has been used to …
Weekly Space Hangout: May 11, 2022 — Small, but Powerful, Micronovae with Dr. Simone Scaringi
Weekly Space Hangout: May 4, 2022 - News Roundup!
There always seems to be so many news stories that we never get to cover - but tonight we will get to discuss a few more than usual!
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Weekly Space Hangout: April 27, 2022 — Catching Up With Dr. Paul M. Sutter (aka "The Spaceman")
If you are a long-time viewer of the Weekly Space Hangout, then Dr. Paul Sutter is no stranger to you at all. For several years, he was one of our on-air journalists (along with Dr. Kimberly Cartier …
Weekly Space Hangout: April 20, 2022 — How to Access and Use Survey Data with NASA's Kevin Gill
Let's face it - there isn't a single one of us who hasn't gazed at myriad stunning astronomy images that are readily available on the web. Whether it's Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Saturn's gorgeous rin…
Weekly Space Hangout — April 13, 2022: Sailing Away Using Diffractive Solar Sails, with Amber Dubill
Tonight we are very excited to welcome Amber Dubill from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to the WSH. Amber has worked on both IMAP and DART, and also has a keen interest in advanced sola…
Weekly Space Hangout — April 6, 2022: Archaeology of Space: The ISS Archaeological Project with Dr. Justin St. P. Walsh
This week we welcome Dr. Justin Walsh to the show to tell us about the archaeology of space.
Wait… WHAT????
You read that correctly… the archaeology of space. Justin is a PI of the International Spac…
Weekly Space Hangout: March 30, 2022 - Searching for Skylab, with Director Dwight Steven-Boniecki
This week we are airing Fraser's pre-recorded interview with award-winning author, and documentary director Dwight Steven-Boniecki. Dwight is the director of a film called Searching For Skylab - a la…
Weekly Space Hangout: March 23, 2022 - News Roundup!
Another week with no guest - but that means we get to talk about MORE NEWS!!!
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Weekly Space Hangout: March 16, 2022 — Dimethyl Ether Detected in a Planetary Disk?
On March 8, the ESO announced in their Press Release (https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2205/?lang) that a team of researchers from Leiden University, The Netherlands, had detected the largest molec…
Weekly Space Hangout: March 9, 2022 — HR 6819: Black Hole? Vampire 2-Star System? Dr. Abigail Frost Explains
On March 2, 2022, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reported (refer to Press Release: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2204/?lang) that the HR 6819 system, believed to be the home of the clos…
Weekly Space Hangout: March 2, 2022 - Successful MAREVL 2.0 Static Fire Test with bluShift Aerospace's Seth Lockman
This week is another news roundup! And what could be better than having a guest join us straight from the "Breaking News" headlines!
Joining us tonight is Seth Lockman, Communications Director for bl…
Weekly Space Hangout: February 23, 2022 - Yet Another News Roundup!
This week is another news roundup! Be prepared for an entire hour of science news!
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Weekly Space Hangout: February 16, 2022 - News Roundup!
This week is another news roundup! Be prepared for an entire hour of science news! Oh yeah - a certain DESK may be making a return!
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Weekly Space Hangout: February 9, 2022 - The Sun's Local Bubble and Nearby Star Formation w/Michael Foley
Weekly Space Hangout: February 2, 2022 - Dr. Sian Proctor: Geoscientist, Space Artist, & Inspiration4 Astronaut/Mission Pilot
Weekly Space Hangout: January 26, 2022 - Dr. Ralph McNutt, PI for the Proposed Interstellar Probe Mission
This week we are excited to welcome Dr. Ralph McNutt to the WSH. Two weeks ago, Dave Dickinson introduced us to a proposed new mission by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the …