Episodes
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
CubeSat Launch Initiative Missions Concepts Program
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Launching satellites is super complex and it is awesome to see how university, college, and high school students are going all in with CubeSats. In this episode of NASA EDGE, we’ll hear how NASA’s Cubesat Launch Initiative, the University Nanosatellite Program, and many others are working together to help students develop, build, launch and operate their own small satellites to conduct Lunar, search and rescue, and even biological missions. From the Missions Concepts Program to Thomas Jefferson High School, these kids are taking DYI to low earth orbit and beyond.
Monday Mar 27, 2023
TEMPO
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
NASA is ready to launch TEMPO, its first instrument on a commercial satellite primarily focused on gathering hourly daytime data on air pollutants. This takes spectrometry to a whole new geosynchronous level. And if you like big words, you’ll love the game show, NOT MY TEMPO. All this and more on NASA EDGE: TEMPO! Be sure to check it out!
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Surface Water and Ocean Topography Prelaunch Show
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Get ready for the launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission with NASA EDGE. With guests from NASA, Thales Alenia Space, and Launch Services, we cover everything you need to follow this critical earth science mission. SWOT will measure water height on both oceans and fresh waters sources like rivers and lakes to give scientists an unprecedented understanding of how our water table works.
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
JPSS-2 Tower Rollback Show
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
NASA EDGE scores a hat trick with the Best of Live JPSS-2 Tower Rollback show featuring three amazing missions and milestones. First, JPSS-2, NOAA’s ongoing mission to provide essential data an imagery to improve weather prediction. Second, LOFTID, NASA’s technology demonstration mission featuring an inflatable decelerator! And finally, with this launch NASA’s Launch Services celebrates its 100th mission! Plus, there are a few surprise offerings from NASA EDGE as well
Saturday Sep 03, 2022
Imaging Artemis I with SCIFLI
Saturday Sep 03, 2022
Saturday Sep 03, 2022
Artemis I is launching soon, and even NASA has its own front-row seat for the launch with Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery (SCIFLI). During launch and recovery, the NASA SCIFLI team will capture super high-fidelity imagery of the rocket and parachutes on re-entry across multiple spectrums. Join NASA EDGE as they hear first-hand from the SCIFLI team about how this imagery will help NASA, Artemis, and even future missions operate safely and efficiently. Also, we get the latest on SCIFLI’s newest instrument, SCIFLI Airborne Multispectral Imager (SAMI), flying aboard NASA’s WB-57.
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Honey, I Shrunk the Payload
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
It’s the season of sequels, reboots, and blockbusters, and Honey, I Shrunk the Payload Challenge may be the hit of the summer. NASA EDGE looks at the three finalists competing to develop incredibly small payloads to potentially fly to the moon with NASA and how they were inspired to scale down their instruments for challenge success! Plus, NASA EDGE explores their own miniaturization techniques. Check it out.
NASA’s Honey, I Shrunk the Payload Challenge was made possible by the NASA Tournament Lab, which is part of the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) in NASA’s Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing program. It was funded by the agency's Game Changing Development Program in support of NASA's Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative, which aims to enable human and robotic exploration on the Moon and future operations on Mars.
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
The GOES-T Rollout Show
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
On February 28, 2022, NASA EDGE provided live coverage of the rollout of NOAA’s GOES-T satellite from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. GOES-T is the third in a series of four satellites specifically flown to provide a continuous record of high-quality imagery, weather, environmental, and space weather data for the entire Western Hemisphere. Guest on the show include NOAA’s GOES-R Program System Program Director Pam Sullivan, NOAA’s GOES-R Chief Scientist Dan Lindsay, NASA GOES-R Deputy System Program Director Ed Grigsby, NASA GOES-R Flight Project Manager Candace Carlisle, and our good buddy, Mic Woltman from NASA’s Launch Services Program. Today’s forecast: 100% visibility with a slight chance of buffering.
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
The IXPE Show
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
On December 8, 2021 NASA EDGE provided live coverage for the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. IXPE will give scientists around the world an unprecedented look at some of our galaxies most mysterious and complex objects, like Black Holes, Neutron Stars, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and more. Guests on the show include NASA Astrophysics Division Director Paul Hertz, IXPE Deputy Principal Investigator Brian Ramsey, IXPE Lead Mirror Scientist Stephen Bongiorno, IXPE Project Manager Randy Baggett, and NASA Launch Program Office’s Mic Woltman.
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
The Antarctic Eclipse Show
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
NASA EDGE talks NASA Heliophysics, NASA Solar Missions, Eclipses, and Space Weather as the perfect setup for exclusive, high-resolution footage of the 2021 Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse. Join Blair and Franklin as the talk with NASA Scientists Kelly Korreck, Michael Kirk, and Jesse Woodroffe before sharing this exclusive eclipse footage provided by the J. M. Pasachoff Antarctic Eclipse Expedition.
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
The Dart Show
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
On November 22, 2021 NASA EDGE provide coverage of the transition of the SpaceX Falcon 9 going vertical prior to the launch of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Associate Administrator Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Planetary Science Division Director Lori Glaze, and NASA’s Launch Services Program Office’s Mic Woltman and more joined the show to discuss this amazing proof of concept mission for our planet’s defense.