Space Wonders - an ESA podcast collection
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This is an official channel of the European Space Agency, where you can find a variety of podcast series bringing you closer to the people, missions and discoveries that are expanding our understanding of the Universe.
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The depths of space, Euclid, LISA, and the mysterious effects of gravity - Expedition Sound 4
Ripples in the fabric of reality, distant galaxies acting as lenses, and filaments of galaxies stretching across the cosmos – gravity is more than just the force that keeps us from floating off the surface of Earth. In this final episode of
Our galaxy and faraway worlds, Gaia, Plato, and hearing stars wobble - Expedition Sound 3
Wobbling stars and distant worlds – in this episode of Expedition Sound, we leave the planets of our Solar System behind and venture out into our home galaxy to explore the stars and exoplanets in the Milky Way galaxy. Through the sonificat
The Solar System, BepiColombo, and flying towards Mercury - Expedition Sound 2
We get as close as possible to travelling aboard a spacecraft, experiencing what it would be like to fly towards planet Mercury. Through a sonification of data collected during ESA/JAXA BepiColombo (https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/S
Our Sun, Solar Orbiter, and listening to solar fireworks - Expedition Sound 1
Guided by a sonification created with data from the ESA-led Solar Orbiter (https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter) mission, we explore some of the mysteries of our Sun, how Solar Orbiter is studying them, and ho
ESA‘s riskiest flyby – Solar Orbiter faces Earth debris
We talk to Julia Schwartz, expert in flight dynamics, and Klaus Merz, space debris, about Solar Orbiter's upcoming risky Earth flyby. On 27 Nov, it will pass almost as close as the International Space Station in one of the closest flybys on
Rescuing Integral: No thrusters, no problem
A year ago today, a failure on the Integral spacecraft meant it fired its thrusters for likely the last time. Hear Richard Southworth, Operations Manager for the mission explain how in the 365 days since, the spacecraft in Earth orbit has c
Your chance to name the next space weather mission
ESA needs you. We need a name for our new spacecraft. Its mission? To spot potentially hazardous solar storms before they reach Earth. We speak to Jussi Luntama, ESA's Head of Space Weather about the mission, why it needs a new name, and wh
A fictional asteroid impact
Once every two years, asteroid experts around the globe meet up and pretend an asteroid impact is imminent. Why? To prepare for the likely – but plausible – scenario in which this comes true. In this episode, we speak about the hypothetical
André Kuipers on sheltering from oncoming space debris
André Kuipers is one of a handful of astronauts who has had to 'shelter-in-place' from a piece of marauding space debris. In 2012, a debris fragment was spotted heading towards the International Space Station. Its orbit was hard to predict
ESA & UNOOSA talk trash: Directors Josef Aschbacher and Simonetta di Pippo in conversation
In the final episode of the ESA-UNOOSA podcast on space debris, Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, and Simonetta di Pippo, Director of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, discuss this topic of global concern
ESA & UNOOSA on space debris: sustainability over the long term
Space may seem vast, but the orbits around Earth in which satellites reside are a limited natural resource. Since the beginning of the space age, millions of debris fragments have been created which now threaten any spacecraft that crosses
ESA & UNOOSA on: space debris and human spaceflight
Humans in space have a lot to contend with, and for those orbiting in low-Earth orbit, space debris is a real concern. So what's the risk to astronauts on-board the International Space Station? How safe are they when they perform a space wa
ESA & UNOOSA on: the impact of debris
Debris in orbit varies from millions of millimetre-sized particles to thousands of much larger objects like defunct satellites and rocket parts. As such the damage debris can cause varies from a gradual degradation of satellite parts over t
ESA & UNOOSA on space debris: Where today's debris came from
The millions of fragments of debris in orbit today are the direct result of 'fragmentation events' in the past. But how do we know what caused the 550 known, debris-creating events to date? And what can we learn from them? In episode 6 of t
ESA & UNOOSA on space debris: The role of reentries
What goes up, nearly always comes back down. Roughly 100 satellites and rocket bodies reentered Earth's atmosphere every year in the last decade. It might sound scary, but atmospheric reentries are nothing to be worried about - in fact they
ESA & UNOOSA on space debris: We're launching more than ever
Since the beginning of the space age, with the launch of Sputnik in 1957, we have launched thousands of rockets carrying more than ten thousand satellites into space. In recent years, this number has dramatically increased, as well as the v
ESA & UNOOSA on space debris: The cost of avoiding collision
Space might seem an empty, vast expanse, but satellites in Earth's orbit face the constant risk of collision - with other satellites and rockets, dead or alive, or with fragments of their debris. It is now routine for operators of spacecraf
ESA & UNOOSA on space debris: Falling to Earth takes a long time
Our planet's atmosphere gradually slows down satellites in orbit and brings them back down to Earth. However, depending on their altitude, this process can take an extremely long time. Had the dinosaurs launched a satellite into the furthes
ESA & UNOOSA on: Satellites vs space debris
Satellites in orbit share near-Earth space with millions of fast-moving and dangerous debris objects. Tim Flohrer, Head of ESA's Space Debris Office, and Nathalie Ricard, Scientific Officer at the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA),
