Artemis 1 Skips back to Earth, iSpace Lunar Lander launches on Falcon9, and thoughts on SpaceX's Starshield - a podcast by Alex G. Orphanos, Science Communicator

On this episode. we are recording this on December 13th, 2022 on planet Earth as Artemis 1 has successfully returned to Earth after a 1.4 million mile journey.

- We have to discuss the newly attempted skip reentry done by Orion, and why it might be valuable for humans on Artemis 2.

- The first potential privately funded mission to land on the moon just launched on a Falcon 9 this part week.

- And I'd like to share my thoughts on SpaceX's latest Starlink application - The Starshield, which sounds like something out of a Marvel movie. A tool for the US Military for global surveillance. And it's up on SpaceX's website right now!

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NASA Artemis 1 Return
- Skip Reentry
- Why is skipping on the atmosphere generally bad?
- Why is it a valuable reentry technique?
- Why wasn't it done before?

Artemis splashdown on Earth
https://time.com/6240198/nasa-artemis-1-orion-reentry/

On December 11th, the day NASA returned the Orion Capsule from the Moon for the first time in half a century - in 1972, the final mission to the moon, Apollo 17, had just landed human beings for the last time since.

iSpace Hakuto-R
- What is it?
- Delays to moon launch
- What do they need to do?

iSpace - 1st commercial lunar lander ever?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michaeljsheetz_early-this-morning-spacex-launched-ispace-activity-7007810164586127360-ql9W?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/11/spacex-launches-japanese-ispace-lunar-lander-first-mission.html
https://ispace-inc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/EN_ispace_Release_20221130_Lander_Status_Update.pdf

SpaceX's Starshield - a National Defense Starlink variant. Good? Bad? Neutral?
- We share out thoughts - tell us yours!

SpaceX's Starshield
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/05/spacex-unveils-starshield-a-military-variation-of-starlink-satellites.html
https://www.spacex.com/starshield/

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