7 Big Ideas from Kole’s Twitter (twitter.com/kolelutz). Explore carbon capture near airports and wildfire smoke, remote sensing to image wet wood, CO2 clouds, and energy efficient wind turbines. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/frontier-space/support ..read more

Dive into research, materials and progress of reflective materials to prevent ice melting with Dr. Leslie Field, Founder of Bright Ice and Arctic Ice Project (https://www.arcticiceproject.org/) Learn about Arctic Ice Project, and Bright Ice a nonprofit that plans to inhibit glacial melting by adding a safe, reflective material to the surface of dirty ice and water to brighten (www.brighticeinitiative.org) Explore >10um Si microspheres such as 3M™ Glass Bubbles materials, dynamics, lifespan, , and environment savings with potential to mitigate 1.02°C rise and sea ice volume mitigation of abo ..read more

Explore GuardTop’s CoolSeal Reflective Coating to reflect 30% more sunlight, reduce asphalt surface temperatures by 10-25 degrees Fahrenheit, and save millions in thermal/energy costs. Dive into solar-activated engineered pigment, material properties, challenges such as UV light, microcracks, and also the environment/energy/cost savings, growth and potential to overcome global warming and cool planet Earth. Speakers Davis Koleas, Director of Sustainability,CoolSeal by GuardTop Michael March, Director, Technical | Product Management, Research and Development, GuardTop https://www.coolseal.com ..read more

Explore five mysteries in materials science, engineering and defects. Glimpse into emerging research projects as we gander into the world of nanoparticles and nanotechnology. This video was created from UVA's MSE 3060 Defects & Microstructures course. Chapters: 0:00 Divacancies 1:33 Oxygen Vacancies 2:20 Armor Shield 3:00 Space & Crystal Lattice 4:13 Dark Matter antiparticles --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/frontier-space/support ..read more

A dialogue with Egbert Edelbroek, CEO at SpaceBorn United, on the mission to enable human reproduction in space, Mars, and beyond Earth. At the heart of the conversation is SpaceBorn's Lotus mission to launch and operate an embryo incubator by 2025 onboard a recoverable biosatellite on a five-day conception mission. We explore the details and challenges involved with reproduction beyond Earth in orbit, Mars and in alternative gravity, assistant reproductive technologies(ART), and SpaceBorn's childbirth mission. Other topics include a vitro fertilisation (IVF), artificial wombs, cryogenic stora ..read more

For September's episode, we hear from Bill Stone, CEO and Founder at Stone Aerospace, a U.S.-based aerospace startup developing their Valkyrie cryobot, alien-hunting submarine, underwater UAV's, surface space bots, and more. In pondering about the potential aphotic cellular lifeforms under the 20km ice shell of Europa, the smallest of 79 moons orbiting Jupiter, Bill provides a mission overview of the 300 kg Crybot, innovations such as the hot water laser drill system, and key challenges related to ice penetration, mobility, power, communication, and thermal constraints of the cryobot. We dive ..read more

Join us as we hear from our guest Jim Keravala, Cofounder and CEO at OffWorld, a startup developing a robotic workforce that plans to mine, manufacture, and build on the Moon, asteroids, LEO, Mars, and beyond. Key topics of discussion include extraction, construction on the lunar surface, terrestrial mining, NASA Artemis, reinforcement learning and specs for spacebots, lunar dust, and building fabrication facilities at L1. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/frontier-space/support ..read more

Explore Ten Ideas on Biological Evolution from Top Engaged Tweets from Twitter (https://twitter.com/kolelutz) in 2022 0:13 Unexplored Space Biology on ISS, 0:45 Cambrian Explosion Earlier, 1:06 Before humans Advanced Civilisation, 1:24 Access Digital Calendar, 1:36 Higher Intelligence Underwater, 1:56 Dolphins from Wolves, 2:12 Growth of Winged Species, 2:32 Dogs Speaking Words, 3:06 Enhancing Dog Species, 3:32 Animals Identify Edible Plants --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/frontier-space/support ..read more

Learn about Minimass from Andy Coward on the mission to create low-carbon, low-cost, 3d printed concrete beams with 78% reduction in concrete, and 50% reduction in material costs. Approach holds potential to 3D print any compression carrying material for buildings and bridges on Earth and beyond. Topics include: 3D printing with mortar in-situ, sawtooth beam design, materials science <2-10mm aggregates, and more. Andy Coward of Net Zero Projects (NZP) Limited, holds a 1st class degree in Civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Cambridge and has over 15 years of experience in ..read more

Dive behind the scenes at AIAA's SciTech 2023 Forum with Taylor Fazzini, Principal Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman. AIAA SciTech hosted a  record breaking 5,800 researchers/professionals, 30+ exhibitors 2500+ technical panels/sessions, 70+ different companies participating  at National Harbor, MD now that forum is back in person,  Learn More https://virtualscitech.aiaa.org/ Frontier Space Podcast https://anchor.fm/frontierspace --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/frontier-space/support ..read more