Spacetime With Stuart Gary

The astronomy and space science news podcast.Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com/spacetime (mobile friendly).  SpaceTime 20190726 Series 22 Episode 56 *ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019Astronomers have confirmed that Asteroid 2006 QV89 won’t hit the Earth when it makes its close approach on September 9th. *A planetary defence exercise sharpens both scientists and emergency teamsA recent planetary defence exercise designed to see whether the Earth really could protect itself from a major asteroid impact didn’t do so well -- with scientists failing to save New York City from a major asteroid impact. *SpaceX Dragon test failure find faultInvestigators have blamed a leak of propellant due to the failure of a titanium check valve -- for the explosion which destroyed a Crew Dragon 2 capsule during tests at Cape Canaveral in April. *Russian Spektr space telescope launchedThe Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has successfully launched Moscow’s new Spektr-RG X-ray space Telescope. *T