Space Foxes, Space Cats & Space Naked Apes living together on the same planets? That's what the future holds for the Igarian Corporation. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTtjuT_rP9s

Closing out January with a handful of launches, SpaceX carry Cygnus to the orbit, the cargo space craft which is supposed to provide dissimilar redundancy to the commercial resupply services contract. The European LISA gravitational wave antenna gets officially adopted by ESA after 30 years of development. Iran's Simorgh rocket make it to orbit after 7 years of failed attempts. And much more. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWBDAfMtQRM

The last major addition to the International Space Station was in 2011, after that the forced retirment of the Space Shuttle meant that new hardware was necessarily small, but this year we're seeing a number of new pieces of hardware which will be attached to the station which will expand it and change the way it looks. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INiagI9MjvU

I had a rare opportunity to actually go into Meteor Crater (http://meteorcrater.com/) with scientists from the B612 Foundation and view this amazing structure from the inside. Meteor Crater in Arizona is the best example of an impact crater on Earth, there are larger and younger craters but none are so well preserved. As such it remains an important scientific site and access is extremely limited. There is a great public visitor center which has some great exhibits, crater viewing and guided tours of the crater rim if you are a space fan then this is a unique location http://meteorcrater.com/ The B612 Foundation is a non-Profit organization working in the field of asteroid defense, if you enjoyed this I urge you to donate to B612 https://b612foundation.org/ This was recorded during a short rest break at the bottom, I had one take and adlibbed the script from memory, but I do make a couple of mistakes. In particular when talking about the velocity of the impactor I should have said miles per second instead of kilometers per second. The camera is a Ricoh Theta S which uses a pair of fish eye lenses to take a full 360 degree video, the resolution is sadly quite low, but I felt that being surrounded on all sides by the crater walls represented a unique setting where the sacrifice was worth it. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDcmlbObqvw