The End of The Road for the Atlas Rocket

Friday November 11, 2022Today’s headline stories:Astronomy Daily – The Podcast-NASA will continue a lunar smallsat mission for launch in mid 2023, despite exceeding its cost cap by 30%.-The Atlas rocket family, a staple of the US. Launch industry since June 1157, ended its West Coast operations on November 10 with the launch of an Atlas V rocket with the JPS Two weather satellite.-A new satellite image shows that the world's largest iceberg 76 A has entered the Drake Passage, a waterway that contains a fastmoving ocean current that will send the mighty Berg on a one-way trip to a watery grave.-One of the largest pieces of NASA's fallen space shuttle, Challenger, has been discovered on the ocean floor by a TV documentary team searching for a downed World War II aircraft.-Our warming planet – a new study-Mars has a core – confirmed-The ever-changing Artemis launch date…will it or won’t it?-An Exoplanet updateS01E56Andrew’s back! Big thank you to Steve for the great job he did while Andrew was away, and Steve will be returning down the track in a little.Astronomy Daily – The Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astronomy-daily-the-podcast/id1642258990 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2kPF1ABBW2rCrjDlU2CWLW Or stream from our websites at www.spacenuts.io or our HQ at www.bitesz.com If you’d like to find out more about the stories featured in today’s show, you can read today’s edition of the Astronomy Daily Newsletter at any of our websites – www.spacenuts.io , www.bitesz.com or go directly to www.astronomydaily.io – subscribe and get the new edition delivered to your mailbox or RSS reader every day….it’s free from us to you.Please subscribe to the podcast and if you have a moment, a quick review would be most helpful. Thank you…#space #astronomy #science #podcast #astronomydaily #spacenuts #spacetimeBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-latest-space-news--5648921/support.Sponsor Details:Ensure your online privacy by using NordVPN. To get our special listener deal and save a lot of money, visit www.astronomydaily.io/nordvpn. You'll be glad you did!Get the best secure and private email on the planet. Stop your Government, google and who knows who else spying on every email you write. Do what we did and use ProtonMail. They beleive in privacy and there are no ads in their business model...yet they still provide a free forever service. Check them out and get out special deal at www.astronomydaily.io/protonmailBecome a supporter of Astronomy Daily by joining our Supporters Club. Commercial free episodes daily are only a click way... Click Here