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Fascinating Frontiers

Patrick · Nerra Network

Daily space and astronomy news: NASA and SpaceX missions, ESA operations, exoplanet and James Webb discoveries, and the engineering behind humanity"s push into the cosmos — with ongoing story tracking across Starship, Artemis, and deep-space science. For space enthusiasts, engineers, and the curious. AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

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Ep 57: NASA has released a fresh batch of images from...

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2026/04/24

# Fascinating Frontiers **Date:** April 24, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** NASA has released a fresh batch of images from Artemis II operations showing Earth, the Moon, and the Sun captured across multiple mission phases. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis (ElevenLabs) for audio production.

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Ep 56: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has...

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2026/04/22

**HOOK:** NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has completed final assembly and is on track for September launch. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **SpaceX secures $60 billion option on Cursor AI** — Teslarati SpaceX has taken an option to acquire the AI coding company Cursor for $60 billion ahead of Cursor’s planned IPO. The move signals how deeply AI tools are expected to shape future spacecraft design, simulation, and autonomous operations. ... AI Disclosure:

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Ep 55: Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already...

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2026/04/20

# Fascinating Frontiers **Date:** April 20, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already discovered 11,000 new asteroids before its main survey even begins. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **Vera Rubin Observatory finds 11,000 new asteroids** — Universe Today The observatory has catalogued 11,000 previously unknown asteroids during its early commissioning phase. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated

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09:36

Ep 54: NASA picks Falcon Heavy for ESA’s Rosalind...

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2026/04/18

# Fascinating Frontiers **Date:** April 18, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** NASA picks Falcon Heavy for ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover despite its own proposed budget cut. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **NASA selects Falcon Heavy for ESA Mars rover** — SpaceNews NASA has chosen SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover in late 2028. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses

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Ep 53: NASA's SPHEREx has mapped vast "interstellar...

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2026/04/16

**HOOK:** NASA's SPHEREx has mapped vast "interstellar glaciers" of ice stretching more than 600 light-years across the Milky Way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **SPHEREx Maps Galactic Ice Regions: 16 April 2026 • Phys.org** NASA's SPHEREx mission has mapped interstellar ice inside giant molecular clouds across regions more than 600 light-years wide in our galaxy. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis

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15:18

Ep 52: Theoretical models now link core magnetism in...

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2026/04/14

# Fascinating Frontiers **Date:** April 14, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** Theoretical models now link core magnetism in red giants to fossil fields on white dwarfs, illuminating our Sun’s eventual fate. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis (ElevenLabs) for audio production.

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Ep 51: Artemis II crew prepares for high-stakes...

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2026/04/10

# Fascinating Frontiers **Date:** April 10, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** Artemis II crew prepares for high-stakes re-entry and Pacific splashdown after journey beyond the Moon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis (ElevenLabs) for audio production.

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Ep 50: Artemis II has broken the Apollo-era human...

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2026/04/08

**HOOK:** Artemis II has broken the Apollo-era human distance record from Earth while looping around the Moon’s far side. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **Astroscale Clears CDR for UK Cubesats: 08 April 2026 • SpaceNews** Astroscale has completed the critical design review for two cubesats scheduled to launch next year for the British military. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis (ElevenLabs) for audio

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Ep 49: Artemis II astronauts have entered the Moon's...

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2026/04/06

**HOOK:** Artemis II astronauts have entered the Moon's sphere of influence, marking humanity's return to lunar space. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **Artemis II Reaches Lunar Space: 06 April 2026 • Space.com** The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 mission entered the lunar sphere of influence early on April 6. This sets up the first crewed lunar flyby since 1972 and paves the way for future landings. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but

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Ep 48: Artemis 2 astronauts have successfully...

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2026/04/02

**HOOK:** Artemis 2 astronauts have successfully repaired their toilet during the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **Artemis 2 Crew Fixes Toilet in Orbit: 02 April 2026 • Astronomy Magazine** The four-person crew of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission troubleshot and repaired their broken toilet on the first flight day. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis (ElevenLabs) for

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11:52

Ep 47: SpaceX is preparing to loft 119 small...

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2026/03/30

# Fascinating Frontiers **Date:** March 30, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** SpaceX is preparing to loft 119 small satellites in one rideshare launch from California this morning. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **SpaceX Transporter-16 Readies 119 Payloads: DD March 2026 • Spaceflight Now** SpaceX will launch the 21st mission in its smallsat rideshare program aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 4:02 a.m. PDT.

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Ep 46: [Slow News Edition] Mars-like exoplanets...

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2026/03/28

**HOOK:** Mars-like exoplanets orbiting M-dwarfs could lose their atmospheres in just millions of years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **Mars-like Worlds Near M-Dwarfs May Lose Air** • 28 March 2026 • Universe Today New modelling shows how a Mars-like exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star would lose its atmosphere through atmospheric escape processes. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis (ElevenLabs) for audio

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Ep 45: [Slow News Edition] Hubble has caught a tiny...

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2026/03/26

**HOOK:** Hubble has caught a tiny comet slowing its spin and then reversing direction entirely. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **Nearby Rocky Worlds for Life Search: 26 March 2026 • Universe Today** A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has identified 45 rocky exoplanets with potential for life out of the 6,281 currently known. These nearby candidates could become prime targets for future observations seeking signs of biology. ... AI

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Ep 44: Giant craters on metallic asteroid Psyche...

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2026/03/24

**HOOK:** Giant craters on metallic asteroid Psyche could finally confirm if it's the exposed core of a destroyed protoplanet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **Giant Craters Hint at Psyche's Core Origin: 24 March 2026 • Universe Today** New analysis suggests massive craters on asteroid 16 Psyche may preserve evidence of whether it is the metallic remnant of a protoplanet's core. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice

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Ep 43: Researchers are investigating how Mars gravity...

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2026/03/22

# Fascinating Frontiers**Date:** March 22, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** Researchers are investigating how Mars gravity will change astronauts' skeletal muscle. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **Martian Gravity and Muscle Loss: 22 March 2026 • Universe Today** Marie Mortreux at the University of Rhode Island is collaborating on an international study examining the effects of Martian gravity on skeletal muscle. ... AI

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Ep 40: Blue Origin has filed plans for a massive...

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2026/03/20

**Fascinating Frontiers** **Date:** March 20, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** Blue Origin has filed plans for a massive constellation of up to 51,600 satellites to host data centers in orbit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **Blue Origin enters orbital data center race: 20 March 2026 • SpaceNews** Blue Origin filed plans for a constellation of up to 51,600 satellites dedicated to orbital data centers. ... AI Disclosure: This

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Ep 41: The vernal equinox arrives today at 10:46 A.M....

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2026/03/20

**Fascinating Frontiers** **Date:** March 20, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** The vernal equinox arrives today at 10:46 A.M. EDT, marking astronomical spring as the Sun crosses directly over Earth’s equator. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **Spring Begins in the Northern Sky: March 20-27** • Astronomy Magazine The vernal equinox occurs today at 10:46 A.M. EDT with the Sun standing directly over Earth’s equator. ... AI

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Ep 42: ESA will charter its own dedicated SpaceX Crew...

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2026/03/20

# Fascinating Frontiers**Date:** March 20, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** ESA will charter its own dedicated SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the ISS to expand astronaut flight opportunities. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **ESA Charters Dedicated Crew Dragon to ISS: 20 March 2026 • SpaceNews** The European Space Agency plans to charter a SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station. ... AI Disclosure: This

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Ep 40: NASA astronauts are heading out for a...

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2026/03/18

**# Fascinating Frontiers** **Date:** March 18, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** NASA astronauts are heading out for a spacewalk today after the first-ever medical evacuation from the ISS. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis (ElevenLabs) for audio production.

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Ep 39: NASA confirms readiness for Artemis 2,...

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2026/03/14

# Fascinating Frontiers**Date:** March 14, 2026 🚀 **Fascinating Frontiers** - Space & Astronomy News **HOOK:** NASA confirms readiness for Artemis 2, targeting a crewed lunar orbit no earlier than April 1. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ### Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories 1. **Spring galaxy season lights up northern skies**: 14 March 2026 • Space.com Spring in the northern hemisphere unveils prime views of distant galaxies through backyard telescopes. This seasonal shift highlights accessible

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