Firefly’s Blue Ghost 1 lands safely on the Moon, Athena… doesn’t, and another lunar mission goes missing. NASA shuts down more instruments on the Voyagers, and Europa Clipper makes a flyby of Mars. Starship explodes again. And in the free Patreon edition, how Vera Rubin could find another flyby target for New Horizons.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:19 Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lands on the Moon
  • https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/touchdown-carrying-nasa-science-fireflys-blue-ghost-lands-on-moon/
• 02:12 Athena IM-2 falls on its side (again)
  • https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2
• 04:08 Two missions failed
  • https://www.astroforge.com/updates/odint-mission-debrief
• 05:33 Next step for private Venus mission
  • https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-installs-heat-shield-on-first-private-spacecraft-bound-for-venus/
• 06:59 Voyagers keep shutting down instruments
  • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/and-then-there-were-three-nasa-shuts-down-more-voyager-2-science-instruments
• 08:27 Europa Clipper flies past Jupiter
  • https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasas-europa-clipper-uses-mars-to-go-the-distance/
• 09:31 Vote results
  • https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/community
• 10:03 Patrially cloudy on an ultra-hot Neptune
  • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/todays-forecast-partially-cloudy-skies-on-an-ultra-hot-neptune
• 11:40 Dark matter doesn't decay
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1074969
• 13:14 Smashed planet
  • https://chandra.si.edu/press/25_releases/press_030425.html
• 14:21 Capsule re-entry
  • https://www.varda.com/missions/w-2
• 15:38 Starship IFT-8
  • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spacex-starship-test-falls-short-for-second-time-in-a-row
• 17:16 Guide to Space
• 17:15 Better user experience and a bonus story

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