SPACS

Guest:  Marc Bell, CEO of Terran Orbital; Topics:  A brief cubesat history, LEO, MEO & GEO satellites, lunar satellites, DOD and intelligence agency customers and products, funding, public stock issues, and more.

Guest:  Robert (Bob)Zimmerman; Topics: Mars, Perseverance, Curiosity, searching for signs of life on Mars, suborbital tourism, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Blue origin, the NASA Mars program, possible NASA Administrator Artemis, Abraham Accords, Israel and the UAE and multiple other topics.

We welcomed Doug Messier back to the program for a 94 minute discussion starting out with the success of the Perseverance Mars rover landing earlier in the day.  Most of the first segment was devoted to Perseverance, the various science experiments plans, the onboard hardware and instruments such as the helicopter, microphones, advanced cameras, MOXIE to make O2 out of the Martian atmosphere plus more.  Listen as Doug and callers/emailers discuss the instrument package, the experiments and the search for possible past life on Mars.  Also discussed was the landing site, Jezero Crater, plus t

Guest:  Andrew Chanin;  Topics:  Procure Space ETF, ETF as an investment vehicle, trends driving the commercial space industry, global space investments, the S-Network Space Index and more.