Here’s what might delay Artemis, New Glenn flies again, but there’s a problem, Voyager 1 has to shut down another instrument, Vera Rubin is finding so many asteroids. And in Space Bites+, an incredible image to celebrate Hubble’s 35th birthday.

• 00:00 Intro

• 00:18 Potential bottleneck for Artemis https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/whats-the-deal-with-spacesuits-for-the-moon-will-they-be-ready-in-time/

• 03:20 China Shows Off a 5-Meter Rocket Module https://www.universetoday.com/articles/china-unveils-a-massive-5-meter-composite-module-for-its-next-generation-reusable-rocket

• 06:20 Success and Failure of New Glenn NG-3 https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/errant-upper-stage-spoils-blue-origins-success-in-reusing-new-glenn-booster/

• 08:25 Voyager Shuts Down More Instruments https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2026/04/17/nasa-shuts-off-instrument-on-voyager-1-to-keep-spacecraft-operating/

• 11:08 Vera Rubin Discovers A Lot of Asteroids https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-vera-c-rubin-observatory-has-discovered-11000-new-asteroids-and-its-barely-even-started

• 12:36 Vote results

• 13:06 Organics on Mars https://www.universetoday.com/articles/msl-curiosity-found-new-organic-chemicals-on-mars-proof-that-the-planet-can-preserve-ancient-biosign

• 15:09 Roman’s Ready to Launch

• 16:51 SPHEREx Mapping the Sky https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-spherex-telescope-just-mapped-the-cosmic-ices-that-will-someday-build-planets

• 18:05 The Universe in X-Rays https://www.universetoday.com/articles/behold-the-solar-system-in-all-its-x-ray-glory

• 19:18 More space news

• 20:20 Complexity of the interviews

BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:29

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CosmoQuest Artemis Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhAPm8PNdY
CosmoQuest: https://cosmoquest.org/

What could the great filter be? How visible is the human race to outside observers? How would astronomy work in a cosmic void? And in Q&A+, what would happen if a black hole suddenly approached?00:00 Intro

• 00:26 [@moosekeeto] What could the Great Filter be?

• 02:17 [@wookalarcentral] What do cosmic coincidences mean?

• 04:24 [@MikeD_] Could advanced civilizations communicate in a way we can't detect?

• 06:05 [@doogle4144] How 'visible' is the Human race?

• 08:56 [@mmorgan7212] How would astronomy work if we lived in a cosmic void?

• 13:40 [@AEFisch] Why do scientists call a black hole a singularity?

• 16:28 New citizen science project

🟣 Guest: Dr. John Banovetz https://www.bnl.gov/world/

📜 Uncovering the Next Galactic Supernova with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12094

We should be getting 1-2 supernovae per century in a galaxy like the Milky Way. Yet, the last one observed was about 1000 years ago? Where are all the galactic supernovae? Why don't we see enough of them. Can Vera Rubin help? Finding out in this interview.

• 00:00 Intro

• 01:41 Supernovae in the Milky Way

• 09:33 Why don't we see the supernovae

• 13:32 Vera Rubin 24:37 Working with the data pipeline

• 39:10 Current obsessions

• 41:08 Final thoughts