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Leftist lawsuit against beach closures at Boca Chica appealed to higher Texas court

The beginnings of a planetary nebula

Space Force creates new naming system for its satellites

Iraq and SpaceX close to signing Starlink deal

Avio to build $500 million rocket facility in Virginia

Turkey begins construction of spaceport in Somalia

China launches nine more Guowang internet-of-things satellites

Stray Cats – Rock this town

SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites

Astronomers: 70% of smaller galaxies don’t have supermassive black holes at their center

Chinese astronauts complete spacewalk inspecting damaged Shenzhou capsule

Unconfirmed anonymous sources at Reuters and Bloomberg claim SpaceX is planning a public stock offering

Scientists posit that Neptune and Uranus might be rockier than previously theorized

French startup The Exploration Company now building an in-orbit servicing spacecraft

Scientists map the outside edge of the Sun’s atmosphere

Pentagon decides New Glenn must fly four times before its certifies it for military launches

December 10, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Svetlana Zakharova – Nikiya’s Death in La Bayadère

Starlab assembles a full scale mock up of its proposed space station

December 10, 2025 Quick space links

December 10, 2025 Quick space links

Three launches today

Abstract art produced by nature within Mars’ north pole ice cap

Unconfirmed anonymous sources at Reuters and Bloomberg claim SpaceX is planning a public stock offering

Chinese astronauts complete spacewalk inspecting damaged Shenzhou capsule

Three launches since yesterday

Engineers lose contact with Mars orbiter MAVEN

Engineers lose contact with Mars orbiter Maven

Eric Clapton – Signe

December 9, 2025 Quick space links

SpaceX completes its 11th launch this year for the National Reconnaissance Office

Academia makes its first comprehensive attempt to plan science missions to Mars using Starship

New data detects potassium and chlorine in Cassiopeia supernova remnant

Nova explosions appear to have multiple slow and fast explosive outflows

A new study blasts the European Union’s proposed space act

Three astronauts return from ISS in Soyuz capsule

China completed two launches today

Senate committee approves Isaacman’s nomination as NASA administrator

Soggy Bottom Boys – I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow

SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites, sets new record for Falcon 9 reuse, dominates the world in rocketry

Astronomers detect a seven-hour-long gamma ray burst, the longest many times over

December 8, 2025 Quick space links

The war-mongers are always those in power

A small galaxy with lots of massive stars

More than 300 companies in discussions in connection Space Force’s “Golden Dome” project

Korean Air and Hyundai Rotem sign deal to develop methane-fueled rocket engine

Japanese startup Ispace expands deal with Japan Airlines

Russia and India agree to orbit their space stations in the same inclination, the same as ISS

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites

SpaceX to launch another secondary private stock sale, hints at going public

China launches another set of Guowang satellites

December 5, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

David Hartley – Why Wichita Lineman is the greatest unfinished song of all time

December 5, 2025 Quick space links

Perseverance moves west, into the barren hinterlands beyond Jezero Crater

New data strengthens the conflict in the observed value for the universe’s expansion rate

House hearing on Artemis yesterday signals strong doubts about the program in Congress

Airbus signs China’s Qianfan or Spacesail constellation to provide internet on its airplanes

New images of interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas

China launches two small test communications satellites

“Blemish” on Orion hatch’s “thermal barrier” delays countdown rehearsal

Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites

Boeing is still not off the hook for its malfeasance behind the two 737-Max crashes that killed 346

December 4, 2025 Quick space links

The insane terrain inside Mars’ Death Valley

Ground-based telescope actually photographs an exoplanet

Yesterday’s Senate nomination hearing for Jared Isaacman was irrelevant; America’s real space “program” is happening elsewhere

December 3, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Larry Kimpel, Billy Cobham, & George Duke – Stratus

December 3, 2025 Quick space links

Weird mottled terrain in the dry tropics of Mars

Sunspot update: Sunspot activity again crashes far below predictions

France’s space agency CNES found liable for environmental damage at French Guiana spaceport

Russian astronaut kicked out of the U.S. for stealing proprietary SpaceX designs

New data from VLT uncovers numerous debris disks around stars

China’s Zhuque-3 copycat Falcon 9 reaches orbit on first launch; 1st stage crashes

Jefferson Starship – Jane

SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites

December 2, 2025 Quick space links

Astronomers detect another galaxy that shouldn’t be there, so soon after the Big Bang

Blue Origin faces opposition renewing its permit to dump waste water at Florida launch facility

Three new papers find sugars, “gum,” and lots of stardust in the samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu

All eight ports on ISS occupied for the first time; Longest manned mission about to start?

China reveals its plans for the damaged Shenzhou-20 capsule docked to Tiangong-3

German rocket startup Isar gets launch contract from ESA

Senate Commerce committee to move up its vote on Isaacman’s nomination as NASA administrator

SpaceX gets Air Force approval to launch and land Starship/Superheavy at Cape Canaveral

Two launches today, by Arianespace and SpaceX

Little Cars – When Sweden Switched To Driving On The Right

December 1, 2025 Quick space links

Buffalo Bill: The greatest true boy adventure story that’s never been told

A detailed look at Europe’s $1 billion commitment to its nascent commercial rocket industry

After being linked for almost six months, China’s Shijian 21 and Shijian 25 separate

Russia still using black market Starlink terminals on its drones

SpaceX launches another 29 Starlink satellites

South Korean rocket startup Innospace announces date for inaugural launch

New Australian rocket startup completes suborbital launch

China launches classified payload into orbit

Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire – Swing Time

SpaceX launches another Transporter mission, including dozens of smallsats

ESA’s member nations approve a major budget increase

Russia’s only manned launchpad damaged badly during yesterday’s launch

Thanksgiving repost: Miracle on 34th Street

Russia launches three astronauts to ISS

What AI thinks Thanksgiving looked like

Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation

November 26, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

November 21, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Josephine Baker – Dance Josie, Dance

November 26, 2025 Quick space links

More glaciers on Mars

European Space Agency faces reality: Its partnerships with NASA are fading

South Korea successfully launches its Nuri rocket for the third time

New study claims to have detected dark matter inside the Milky Way

Thirty Meter Telescope is finally considering a move to the Canary Islands

Vast signs preliminary astronaut deal with the Maldives

Dexys Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen

November 25, 2025 Quick space links

Predicting dust storms in the Starship candidate landing zone on Mars

The smooth and extremely calm methane lakes of Titan

New radar data shows no evidence of liquid water under Mars’ south pole ice cap

Russia launches classified military satellites

Two suborbital test launches in Poland during the past month

NASA releases images during Osiris-Apex’s fly-by of Earth in late September

Twin Escapade Mars orbiters take first images to test instruments

Vast signs deal with Columbia’s space agency

A Midnight Repost: Farewell to America

China launches unmanned Shenzhou-22 capsule to its Tiangong-3 station

NASA trims $768 million from Boeing’s Starliner contract

Robert Goulet & Julie Andrews – My Cup Runneth Over

Blue Origin’s Blue Ring orbital tug gets a customer

November 24, 2025 Quick space links

NASA downgrades Boeing’s Starliner contract

Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?

Two Middle Eastern startups sign deal to build a mini-shuttle dubbed Oryx

A magnificent barred spiral

A company that wants to shoot payloads into orbit with a cannon

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites; 1st stage flies for the 30th time

Startup B2Space launches rocket from balloon

SpaceX issues 1st statement regarding Superheavy test explosion

SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites

Restless Viking – The Great Lakes Flight of MSgt William Wyman

November 21, 2025 Quick space links

Bigoted academia upset that Trump won’t allow them to push the racist DEI agenda

What might be the weirdest crater on Mars

Superheavy intended for next test flight damaged during static fire test

China launches a “communications technology test satellite”

Moss placed on the outside of ISS for nine months was still capable of reproducing

Maritime Launch Services touts a second non-orbital launch from Spaceport Nova Scotia

Firefly to provide the launch rocket for Kratos’ hypersonic test vehicles

Spanish rocket startup PLD unveils the first qualification unit of its Miura-5 rocket

SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites

Sonny and Cher – I Got You Babe

November 20, 2025 Quick space links

Cracks on Mars

The DC swamp proposes beating China in space by creating another bureaucracy here on Earth

Blue Origin announces plans to upgrade New Glenn to match SLS

Rocket Lab sets new annual launch record for the company

ArianeGroup confirms it is targeting about six Ariane-6 launches in 2026

Webb captures spiraling shells around massive binary star system

India tests new and better restart method for upper stage of its biggest rocket

NASA releases numerous images of interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas

Katalyst picks Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus rocket to launch its Swift rescue mission

November 19, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Marilyn Monroe – Lazy

November 19, 2025 Quick space links

Looking for avalanches on Mars

More criticism and opposition to Europe’s proposed space law

Senate demands a second hearing before voting on Isaacman as NASA administrator

Canada commits a half billion to European Space Agency projects

SpaceX and China complete launches

Stevie Ray Vaughan – Couldn’t Stand The Weather

November 18, 2025 Quick space links

Mexican anti-Musk activists whine about SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch operations

Cracking scallops in the Mars

German rocket startup Isar wins another launch contract

Blue Origin targeting from 12 to 24 New Glenn launches in 2026

Will China launch a rescue Shenzhou capsule to Tiangong-3 in one week?

Echostar subsidiary Hughesnet now sending its customers to Starlink

Leonid & Friends – Stay the Night

November 17, 2025 Quick space links

The crippling effect of “woke” on historians

Perseverance moves on

Thailand rejects Starlink

Europe finalizes transfer of Vega-C rocket back to its builder, Italian company Avio

China begins hurried preparations to launch rescue Shenzhou capsule to Tiangong-3

FAA lifts airline and rocket launch restrictions

SpaceX launches NASA ocean radar satellite

Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter circling Mars gets images of interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas

Two more SpaceX launches

November 14, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in

November 11, 2025 Zimmerman/Space Show appearance

The orbital propulsion module for India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander drifts back into lunar orbit

Bezos releases new video of the New Glenn first stage landing yesterday

Comet 3I/Atlas breaks up as it passes closest to the Sun

China’s Shenzhou-20 crew on Tiangong-3 returns on Shenzhou-21 capsule

Amazon renames its proposed internet from constellation Kuiper to Amazon LEO

ULA’s Atlas-5 rocket launches Viasat communications satellite

Home Free – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Historical proof that today’s public schools are nothing but indoctrination mills poisoning minds

Sierra Space finally completes preflight tests of its Tenacity Dream Chaser mini-shuttle

November 13, 2025 Quick space links

New Glenn successfully launches Escapade orbiters AND lands 1st stage

France’s president puts forth a new national space policy

Is China preparing to return its stranded astronauts in its damaged Shenzhou capsule?

The earliest observations ever of a supernova exploding suggest the blast was bi-polar

German rocket startup Isar Aerospace is getting ready for 2nd launch attempt in Norway

Space energy startup Star Catcher successfully tests power beaming using lasers

Uzbekistan signs deal to possibly fly astronauts on Vast’s Haven-1 space station

Firefly identifies cause of first stage explosion during static fire test in September

November 12, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Lena Horne – Stormy Weather

Saturn’s rings, warped by one of Saturn’s moons

November 12, 2025 Quick space links

The leftist protest at Berkeley this week: Feel the hate!

First Soyuz-5 rocket arrives at Baikonur

SpaceX signs Starlink deal with major African telecommunication company

India tests Gaganyaan parachutes again

Canada’s Nova Scotia spaceport schedules a suborbital launch for November

Goldstone antenna damaged and out of service

PDQ Bach – Beethoven Symphony No. 5

November 11, 2025 Quick space links

The edge of Mars’ north polar ice cap

On the Space Show tonight

Kazakhstan expanding its access to multiple internet satellite constellations

China’s Zhuque-3 reusable rocket now ready for its first launch

Avio to provide solid-fueled motors to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon

New company formed to run proposed North Sea offshore launch platform

First launch of Rocket Lab’s Neutron rocket delayed until 2026

SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites

Dean Martin & Caterina Valente – One Note Samba

November 10, 2025 Quick space links

Curiosity looks downhill at past travels

Two launches from China, one of which failed

Isaacman shows up as surprise speaker at Turning Point USA event in Alabama

Three launches since yesterday, with a fourth upcoming today

November 7, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Dusty Lumber Company – No talking just precision carpentry

November 7, 2025 Quick space links

Crazy layers inside a Martian crater

Profits for Luxembourg satellite company SES drop due to U.S. budget cuts and shutdown

Webb tracks volcanic eruptions on Io

U.S. budget cuts shifts Blacksky’s satellite imaging business to international customers

Echostar sells more of its licensed spectrum to SpaceX

FAA issues a launch curfew due to the shutdown

One launch today by SpaceX, while ULA scrubs for the second time in two days

The McCoys – Hang On Sloopy

November 6, 2025 Quick space links

Judge approves plea deal related to Boeing’s malfeasance that caused two 737-Max crashes killing 346

SpaceX and Arianespace make launch predictions for ’25 and ’26

China’s Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter snaps fuzzy picture of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas

State Department blasts the European Union’s proposed Space Act

Starlab picks Leidos to assembly, integrate, and test its space station prior to launch

Two American launches today, setting several new launch records

November 5, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Sue Foley & others – Okie Dokie Stomp

November 5, 2025 Quick space links

This typical cliff on Mars just happens to match the walls of the Grand Canyon

Trump renominates Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator

Arianespace launches European radar satellite

China delays return of Shenzhou 20 crew due to possible capsule damage from “space debris”

Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 – Mas Que Nada

Sunspot update: Solar activity continues to decline as predicted

November 4, 2025 Quick space links

Someone is apparently considering putting a helicopter on Starship when it goes to Mars

More Washington shenanigans over who will be NASA’s next administrator

Intuitive Machines buys Lanteris, formerly Maxar

First unmanned test flight of India’s Gaganyaan capsule likely slips to next year

MDA invests $7 million to become part owner of proposed Nova Scotia spaceport

China will launch its upgraded manned Mengzhou-1 capsule in 2026

The November fund-raising campaign for Behind the Black

Eric Clapton – She’s Waiting

November 3, 2025 Quick space links

A think tank releases its detailed review of the American satellite communications industry

Is the German government holding up Rocket Lab’s purchase of German space communications company Mynaric?

Update on Vast’s first planned space station, Haven-1

China launches “remote sensing” satellite, setting a new national record for annual launches

Two overnight launches

October 31, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Annie Marie Lewis – Headless Horseman

SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites

Two former NASA administrators express wildly different opinions on NASA’s Artemis lunar program

ISS study suggests that weightlessness impacts the eyes of men more than women

Webb captures spectacular false-color image of planetary nebula

China launches three astronauts to its Tiangong-3 space station

Latvia signs Artemis Accords

October 31, 2025 Quick space links

Geoff Castellucci – Monster Mash

New orbital radar data confirms large ice deposits in Phelgra Mountains near Starship landing zone

October 30, 2025 Quick space links

SpaceX: Starship will be going to the Moon, with or without NASA

Colorado sues the Trump administration over its decision to move Space Force headquarters to Alabama

Roscosmos forced to replace next manned Soyuz capsule due to damage during test

A slew of propaganda today from China’s state-run press attempts to hide the delays in its manned lunar program

AST SpaceMobile signs 10-year deal with Saudi Arabia

Lawsuit against Amazon for favoring Blue Origin over SpaceX to launch Kuiper satellites gets new hearing

October 29, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

“Weird Al” Yankovic – Smells Like Nirvana

October 29, 2025 Quick space links

The alien landscape of Mars’ north polar ice cap

SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites

Blue Origin officials provide update on their lunar lander program

Startup semi-conductor manufacturer Besxar signs deal to use SpaceX’s Falcon 9 first stage as production platform during its short flight

Lockheed Martin completes first flight of X-59 supersonic test plane

The Hollies- On A Carousel

October 28, 2025 Quick space links

The base of the Democratic Party has truly become nightmare to behold

European think tank pushes passage of proposed and very Byzantine space law

SpaceX settles Cards Against Humanity lawsuit against it

Voyager Space buys satellite electric propulsion company Exoterra

The Philippines and Malaysia sign Artemis Accords

SpaceX launches another 28 Starlink satellites

Ozzy Osbourne And Lita Ford – Close My Eyes Forever

October 27, 2025 Quick space links

Russia claims to have successfully tested a low-flying nuclear-powered cruise missile

New data supports theory of dark matter, but suggests inexplicably that it acts differently depending on the galaxy’s mass

Luxembourg capsule startup Space Cargo signs partnership deal with French startup

Ispace signs deals with companies in India and Japan

Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander delayed again

Two more launches, by China and SpaceX respectively

Japan launches a new upgraded version of its HTV cargo freighter

Nova Scotia spaceport wins $10 million credit line from Canadian government

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites, sets new annual launch record

October 24, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Deconstructed – How the bathyscaphe Trieste was the first to reach the ocean’s deepest point

October 24, 2025 Quick space links

Two lawsuits filed against NASA at its Marshall Space Flight Center

SpaceX launches communications satellite for the Spanish government

Eivør & Danish National Symphony Orchestra – Trøllabundin

October 23, 2025 Quick space links

China launches a “communication technology test” satellite

Weird “What the heck?!” pedestal crater on Mars

European companies Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales merge their satellite divisions

Betelgeuse’s long predicted companion star confirmed

The second known asteroid discovered orbiting closer to the Sun than Venus

Lockheed Martin invests in rotating detonation rocket engine startup Venus Aerospace

Hungary becomes the 57th nation to sign the Artemis Accords

October 22, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

The Guys Downstairs – How Long Has This Been Going On

What bad news is NASA hiding about the heat shield it will use on the next Orion/SLS manned mission around the Moon?

October 22, 2025 Quick space links

A somewhat typical volcanic vent on Mars

Duffy’s shiny object worked

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites

Debby Boone – You Light Up My Life

October 21, 2025 Quick space links

Small fresh impact on Mars’ youngest major lava flow

October 17, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Fake blather from NASA administrator Sean Duffy to hide more Artemis delays

The 5.6.7.8s – I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield

October 20, 2025 Quick space links

The “No Kings” demonstrations this past weekend showed the future belongs to the right

Was it a piece of space junk that broke a United plane windshield in flight last week?

Debris from suspected Chinese rocket discovered in western Australia

South Korea issues launch license to Korean rocket startup Innospace

The three launches completed today including two major new achievements

Oman streamlines in launch license regulations

Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup

October 17, 2025 Quick space links

Meandering channel in Mars’ southern cratered highlands

If there is any microbiology on Mars, new research says it will be found in the red planet’s ample ice

China launches 18 satellites

JD ‘FollowCam’ – Just “wing” it!

October 16, 2025 Quick space links

Layers of Martian ash

ESA awards contract to Italian company to provide an ocean landing platform

South African red tape will likely delay Starlink there for years to come

Scientists find that three normally incompatible substances can interact in the alien conditions on Titan

Thailand studying feasibility of establishing its own commercial spaceport

Three launches since yesterday

Indian rocket startup Skyroot hires Exolaunch to handle satellite integration and deployment

October 15, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Alexis Dahl – How to ship 800 billion pounds of rock fast

October 15, 2025 Quick space links

Peeling brain terrain in Martian crater

New Morgan Stanley report reflects Wall Street’s generally optimistic view of Rocket Lab

Orbital tug startup Impulse Space to develop its own unmanned lunar lander

Space Force approves Vandenberg environmental assessment, allowing SpaceX’s to launch as much as 100 times annually

Lena Haarberg – Fall Into You

October 14, 2025 Quick space links

The hurricane season in 2024 confounded the predictions again

Three launches in the past day

PLD issues detailed update on its preparations for first launch in 2026

Swarm satellite constellation detects changes in the Earth’s magnetic field during the past decade

Eleventh Starship/Superheavy a complete success

I love love love my toy chicken!!!

Another round of layoffs at JPL

Michael Knowles – Celebrating Columbus

Welsh university delivers spectometer for Europe’s Franklin Mars rover

Faced with loss of the federal gravy train, Lowell Observatory makes major changes

Germany’s space agency DLR delivers one prototype leg for Europe’s Callisto grasshopper

Watch the eleventh orbital test flight of SpaceX’s Starship/Superheavy rocket

Rocket Lab gets two-launch contract from Japan’s space agency JAXA

China launches three satellites from ocean platform

October 10, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Business Insider – The Rise And Fall Of The American Diner

October 10, 2025 Quick space links

New research confirms the steady decline of Martian ice with each glacial cycle

Orbital tug company Momentus gets two NASA contracts

Astronomers take first radio image of the supermassive binary system OJ287

Canadian rocket startup Nordspace signs deal for its mission control center

Is Trump considering re-nominating Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator?

October 8, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Asleep At The Wheel – Roly Poly

October 9, 2025 Quick space links

Dominion Voting Systems purchased by American company run by Republican election reform activist

Saturn as seen by Cassini in 2004, four months before orbital insertion

Congressional budget action appears to just save two of seventeen on-going NASA missions

New study claims the giant impact that created the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin was oblique, from the south

AST SpaceMobile signs up Verizon to use its constellation for phone-to-satellite service

Prince – Play that funky music

October 8, 2025 Quick space links

Martian winds are faster than expected

Fresh slope streak on Mars

Canadian rocket startup Nordspace obtains expanded ground station contract

Stoke Space said to be raising as much as $500 million in private investment capital

First image from Mars of interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites, reuses 1st stage for 29th time

Japanese satellite company extends its launch contract with Rocket Lab

Melanie – The Nickel Song

October 7, 2025 Quick space links

Is the fate of the independent live streams in Boca Chica uncertain?

Martian boxwork on the flanks of Mount Sharp

The Juno mission at Jupiter is almost certainly over

SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites

Chuck Mangione Quartet – Land of Make Believe

The left only has a short window remaining to stop its violence before the hammer strikes it hard

October 6, 2025 Quick space links

A galaxy with a starburst ring within its nucleus

ESA looks to global private sector for its next ISS cargo mission

Firefly Aerospace buys defense contractor SciTec

Asleep At The Wheel – Roly Poly

Space Force awards SpaceX and ULA seven launches worth more than a billion dollars

Gilmour to attempt first launch again next year

October 3, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

David Bull – Taking a close look at an 1896 wood block print

October 3, 2025 Quick space links

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites

Renée Zellweger – Roxie

October 2, 2025 Quick space links

Distractions

Sunspot update: For one month the Sun does what the scientists predicted!

Satellite propulsion startup Portal successfully tests new and radical thruster design

Update on the plans to observe interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas using interplanetary spacecraft

October 1, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

Shocking Blue – Venus

October 1, 2025 Quick space links

Climategate global-warming activist Michael Mann resigns from PennU after celebrating murder of Charlie Kirk

The growing mystery of the little red dots in the early universe

Analysis of archived Cassini data finds a new slate of carbon-based molecules in the plumes of Enceladus

Astronomers snap picture of a baby exoplanet

International Astronautical Congress meeting in Australia produces several international agreements

Varda signs deal for more capsule landings in Australia

Belgium company joins Starlab space station consortium

Axiom successfully tests two of its lunar spacesuits underwater

Natalia Osipova and Carlos Acosta – Giselle: Act II

September 30, 2025 Quick space links

Inspector General: The state of NASA’s spacesuits on ISS is becoming critical

Next Starship/Superheavy test set for October 13, 2025

Firefly loses first stage for next launch when it explodes during static fire test

China launches two “test satellites”

The Cars – Just What I Needed

September 29, 2025 Quick space links

Study suggests low dose radiation reduces severe knee pain