365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition podcast

Ep. 709: Space Weapons

2024-02-26

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition

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Streamed live on Feb 19, 2024.

[My apologies for Fraser’s audio dropouts. We’re not sure how it happened as it wasn’t happening at his studio. Audio is a black art, IMHO. Rich)

Last week we learned that Russia might be planning nuclear weapons to take out satellites in space. What is the current and future possibility of weapons in space and what are the treaties designed to prevent them?

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Ep. 709: Space Weapons

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition

Fler avsnitt från "365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition"

Ep. 725: Looking Ahead

Ep. 724: Summer (Science & Sci Fi) Reads

Ep. 723: Exoplanets by the Numbers

Ep. 722: Weather on Exoplanets

Ep. 721: Rogue Planets

Ep. 720: Galaxy Series - Elliptical Galaxies

Ep. 719: Galaxy Series - Spiral Galaxies

Ep. 718: Galaxy Series - Dwarf Galaxies

Ep. 717: Understanding the Ages of Distant Cosmic Objects

Ep. 716 - The God**** Particle - Remembering Peter Higgs