Naturally on election day we mostly didn’t talk about the elections, everyone else is doing that! But it does look like we have a new astronaut senator from Arizona, congrats to Mark Kelly! In other space news, we discuss the return mission of OSIRUS-REX, space-based AI for improved weather info by deleting photos with clouds, the upgrade to our global Deep Space Network, how our NASA chief admin, Jim Bridenstine, is performing, and the latest results from Starlink’s beta test.
In the Covid world, we report on the breakthrough research in a nano particle spike vaccine from University of Washington, and an AI-based app that can determine with 98% accuracy whether or not you have SARS-Cov2 from your cough, even if you are asymptomatic! And because there was COVID alert at our KSCO radio station, everyone in today’s broadcast was at home! Enjoy..
Upgrades to NASA’s Deep Space Network for spacecraft communications