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Shanghai space vehicle manufacturer targets 17 launches in 2019
Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, or SAST, is one of two main launch vehicle manufacturers under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the main contractor for the Chinese space program, which last year generated revenues of $37.3 billion.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 7: What Gets You Out Of Bed
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Farah Alibay, an early career engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on NASA's first-ever interplanetary cubesat — a space-worthy communications relay about the size of a jumbo cereal box.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 6: Lies We Tell Children About Rocket Science
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to YouTube celebrity and fallen astronomer Scott Manley, a space-savvy caster who can teach you to play the notoriously difficult spaceflight simulator, Kerbal Space Program.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 5: Long on Space
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks about the (original) commercial space industry with Chris Quilty: A senior sell-side analyst with Raymond James & Associates who spends all day trying to convince big money to buy space stocks.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 4: Rambling Astronomer
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Alessondra" Sondy" Springmann: A journeywoman planetary scientist who stumbled into astronomy in college and followed a winding road that has led her to NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid sample-return mission.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 3: The Hidden Space Geeks
Dan Leone talks to military space buff Brian Weeden: erstwhile nuclear missile operator, former space surveillance officer, aspiring policy Ph.D, and technical adviser at the Secure World Foundation think tank in Washington.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 2: There Is No ‘Dwarf Planetary Science’
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone catches up with New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern days ahead of the historic Pluto flyby. The former NASA science boss explains what it's like to fill in one of the last blank spaces on the map: the never-before-seen-up-close planet/dwarf planet/ice dwarf at the edge of the mysterious and enormous Kuiper belt.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 1: Titan Hipster
In this episode of the SpaceNews SpaceGeeks podcast, we talk Titan with self-confessed space hipster, Professor Sarah Hörst.
Introducing SpaceGeeks Podcast Ep. 0: The ‘One-est’ Bat in Yasny
The inaugural episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast features Mike Gold of Bigelow Aerospace and baseball games on an active Russian nuclear missile base.
