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But stay tuned for other important updates, such as a satellite that prints itself in space, a mysterious ooutage of the European Galileo satnav system and an equally mysterious Chinese space station that burnt up in the atmosphere. Meanwhile Thys travels in Asia, using information on deforestation from Satelligence, a Dutch company that we will devote our next episode to. ==LINKS== Chasing the Mo...

On the 20th of July it will be 50 years ago that the first human, Neil Armstrong, made his first 'small step' on the Moon. In this episode we discuss this event, what it has meant to us and what it has meant to space exploration. Herbert Blankesteijn and Joeri Nortier talk with our guest, space entrepreneur Arno Wielders, about the plans to return to the Moon and to use this as a stepping stone to...

==NEWS== Russia to launch X-ray satellite , was in the works for 30 years Orion Launch Abort System test The Titan drone mission proposal Apollo Mission Control restored Starlink, Elon Musks 12,000 satellite plan, has a failure rate of 5% Apollo 11? YT-channel Space Rip has a documentary about Apollo 12! ==CREDITS== Space Cowboys is made by Thys Roes (https://yeah-science.net/) and Herbert Blankes...

Blue Origin started as Jeff Bezos's space tourism company. Amazon's boss wanted to offer people a trip to the edge of space, about 100 kms high - no orbits around the Earth. Today Blue Origin's rockets return form a mission and land upright, just like those of SpaceX. The company launches missions for NASA, has three different rockets in the works, sells rocket engines and has even announced a Moo...

ESA has started projects where scientists and companies develop stuff ESA could use in spacecraft, or that would make space technology useful for people. An example is a wearable device that in some way has 'satellite communication capabilities'. Space Makers initiatives are ongoing in Ireland, Switzerland and Germany with more on the way. We ask Frank what Space Makers has brought ESA so far in t...

The Planetary's Society Lightsail 2 mission President Trump's perculiar tweet about moon and mars missions Co-founder of the Planetary Society Carl Sagan on Lightsail: Space Cowboys is made by Thys Roes and Herbert Blankesteijn in collaboration with BNR Nieuwsradio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Athena will co-operate with LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. How do two satellites work together? Both are scheduled for launch in the early 2030s and have been in the works for more than five years already. This is not uncommon in astronomy but how does a person work on such a time frame? Michael happens to be married to Sera Markoff, who recently appears on Space Cowboys too to talk...

In this episode of Space Cowboys, were talking about the amazing icy worlds of Enceladus, Europa, and Titan - and ask why it might take some curious billionaires to actually fund ELF. Because NASA has still not allocated money to fund this most important of missions. Lunine is a planetary scientist and physicist and the Director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Corne...

You don't use a match to start a rocket engine. Dutch company APP specializes in igniters, and has found itself in related businesses such as parachute deployment devices and fire extinguishers. Their products are to be found on many space missions. Hosts Tyse Roes and Herbert Blankesteijn talk to Edwin Vermeulen of APP, who explains why igniting rocket engines is a science in itself. ==LINKS== AP...

Space Cowboys is a weekly podcast about space, rocket science, the hunt for life, telecommunications and maybe even some e-spionage. Space Cowboys is brought to you from Amsterdam by science and technology journalists Herbert Blankesteijn and Thys Roes. Herbert is off today and Joeri is taking his place. ISIS https://www.isispace.nl & htttps://www.cubesatshop.com Blue Origin's new moon lander...

Space Cowboys is a weekly podcast about space, rocket science, the hunt for life, telecommunications and maybe even some e-spionage. Space Cowboys is brought to you from Amsterdam by science and technology journalists Herbert Blankesteijn and Thys Roes. The moon rover we had on our desk Here's What Happened When The World's Space Agencies Simulated a Killer Asteroid Impact The Hubble Legacy Field...

But also stay tuned for space debris, Mars quakes and where the Voyagers are going. Our in-house space nerd Joeri Nortier is our guest. ==LINKS== We're NOT going to Mars Mystery accident with SpaceX crew capsule Blue Origin's mystery tweet Hayabusa blows 16 meter crater into asteroid Space janitor supposed to clean up space debris Where will the Voyagers end up ? Mars quakes ==VIDEO VERSION== Look...

Space Cowboys is made by Thys Roes (https://yeah-science.net/) and Herbert Blankesteijn (https://blankesteijn.com/) in collaboration with BNR in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. SHOW NOTES https://eventhorizontelescope.org/ http://www.lofar.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Protecting the environment of Mars and the Moon, let alone other planets and their moons? You'd think we have plenty to worry about the environment here on Earth. Still, the space organizations NASA and ESA both have Planetary Protection Officers, whose sole job it is to make sure we don't mess up other celestial bodies. Gerhard Kminek is ESA's PPO and he is our guest in this Space Cowboys Podcast...

In this Space Cowboys episode we discuss with Lisa how exoplanets are discovered, what changes life can make to the chemical makeup of an atmosphere and how you can detect those changes from lightyears away. The telescopes that are needed to do this, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope, are expected to come into service in the near future. ==LINKS== Lisa Kaltenegger Ca...

Space's main selling points are, in his view, inspiration, plain utility as in gps satellites, economic value as in return on your invested dollar or euro. We also discuss differences between ESA's and NASA's pr and what companies like SpaceX add to the mix. ==LINKS== Michel van Baal SpaceX's Starship tests in South Texas Video feed of same: live 'Starship Cam' Event Horizon Telescope Project , to...

Fun fact: the data that is Vandersat's raw material is free since governmental space offices love to have their work put to good use. This enables them to secure new funding. Join us as we discuss with Robbert lots of recent developments in spaceflight. ==LINKS== Vandersat ESA's Sentinel program America going back to the moon Timelapse of the Universe - Melodysheep India shoots down satellite Miss...

De Mink has had fellowships at Princeton and Bonn, and at NASA working with data from the Hubble Space Telescope. She has won the MERAC prize, and is a VIDI and Aspasia laureate. She also graduated cum laude at her two BA's, MA's and PhD. Space Cowboys is a show about the exploration of space hosted by tech and science journalists Herbert Blankesteijn and Thys Roes. You can support Space Cowboys b...

The Voyager missions will be in the history books long after much of our time has been forgotten, Carl Sagan said. Voyager 1 and 2 are the first objects made by humans who have left the Sun's bubble called the heliosphere, and are now in interstellar space. They both send data back every day, with the power of a small light bulb. ==PATREON== You can support this show on Patreon , a website designe...

If you like to support weekly reporting on outer space, please consider supporting this show on Patreon: www.patreon.com/spacecowboys SHOW NOTES Capsule cheat sheet: https://qphl.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-72cadbb192c86ddeaf850b36ce7dc4fe Order a Fluffy Earth in two months: https://www.celestialbuddies.com SLS delayed again? https://spacenews.com/nasa-reassessing-date-for-first-sls-launch/ SpaceIL...

T-minus has its onw rocket, the Dart, which can reach heights of around 100 km, it has contributed to the Insight mission that recently landed on Mars and it is starting its own factory of rocket fuel in the Netherlands itself. Quite a list for a company of no more than seven people. And that's not all, as he tells Tyse and Herbert in this episode of Space Cowboys. ==SHOW NOTES== Roel Eerkens T-Mi...

We have many questions, such as Why, How, and Who pays. So this is going to be one hell of an exciting episode of Space Cowboys. Patreon You can support this show on patreon.com/spacecowboys Show notes Spacelife Origin The weather on Mars Dutch invention to find alien life Russian press conference See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hiber's CFO Coen Janssen tells us about building satellites, covering all of the globe, getting your spacecraft launched, abiding by the rules in orbit, being a space company in Amsterdam, making money doing it and much more. ==SHOW NOTES== Hiber Coen Janssen Flyover of Europa (Jupiter's moon, that is) Mars One in trouble , talks to 'new investor' Mark Kelley runs for John McCain's Senate seat Elo...

Space law is dominated by a handful of (rather old) international treaties. Court cases do not occur, since countries and companies mostly resolve any disputes in a reasonable way. Legal fighting is in nobody's best interest. Tanja Masson is one of the world's leading experts in space law and she has lots to tell about space mining, travel to Mars and planetary protection. Also, if you're consider...

So tells us Joeri Nortier, a colleague of ours at BNR who is a space nerd and acts as something between a guest and a co-host in this episode. We try and embarrass him by asking questions he can't possibly know the answer to, but then he does. Dive into Asian spaceflight with us and be surprised. ==SHOW NOTES== NASA tries to revive Opportunity Mars Rover three last times Artificial meteor showers...