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Earth and Orbit
Every morning at about 6:30 Central, three minutes on what happened in space and on this planet - the launches, the discoveries, the storms and the science - with an eye on the St. Louis sky. Written and narrated automatically from public sources, with a synthetic voice; no clickbait. Part of the stluker.com network.
Episodes
Earth and OrbitNov 11: Typhoon Cempaka Weakens as Tropical Storm Pena Strengthens
Typhoon Cempaka loses strength while Tropical Storm Pena gains some, Manam and Krakatau volcano reports, a fire delays Germany's simulated Moon greenhouse…
Earth and OrbitNov 10: Typhoon Cempaka Tracked East of Okinawa
Typhoon Cempaka and Tropical Storm Pena in the Pacific, new activity at Krakatau and Manam, ESCAPADE's Earth flybys on the way to Mars, and Isar Aerospace's…
Earth and OrbitNov 9: Solomon Islands Quake and Hera Reaches Didymos
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake in the Solomon Islands, Hera's first close look at Didymos, dwarf galaxies short on oxygen, the end of a 378-day Mars simulation…
Earth and OrbitNov 8: NASA Funds Moon Base Rover and Deliveries
NASA's Moon Base awards, including the nuclear-powered PROMISE rover, plus mid-October eruption reports from Manam, Marapi, Krakatau and Nevados de Chillan…
Earth and OrbitNov 7: Moon Meets Venus, Hidden Star Proposed
The Moon passes close to Venus before sunrise, a physicist argues for a hidden red dwarf in the Oort Cloud, and volcano reports from Indonesia, Papua New…
Earth and OrbitNov 6: Tropical Storm In-fa and Three Restless Volcanoes
Tropical Storm In-fa south of Tokyo, new activity at Krakatau, Marapi and Manam, Avio scaling back its reusable rocket demonstrators, and fall sky targets…
Earth and OrbitNov 4: Super Typhoon In-fa and Cyclone Murasu Tracked
Super Typhoon In-fa east of Okinawa and Cyclone Murasu near Chennai, city lights from the space station, ash from Manam and Krakatau, and Venus beside Spica in…
Earth and OrbitNov 2: Moon Meets Mars and Jupiter, Van Gogh's Sky
The Moon passes close to Mars and Jupiter, a study dates Van Gogh's Starry Night sky to a pre-dawn morning in 1889, and October ash and seismic logs from…
Earth and OrbitNov 1: Super Typhoon In-fa Weakens as Volcanoes Keep Erupting
Super Typhoon In-fa weakens north of Guam, Manam, Marapi and Krakatau keep erupting at low levels, and November's sky guide points to Saturn at dusk. Clocks…
Earth and OrbitOct 31: Super Typhoon In-fa and Hera's Two Asteroids
Super Typhoon In-fa north of Guam, ash from Manam and Krakatau activity, Hera resolving the Didymos pair, radio telescopes and neutrino sources, and tonight's…
Earth and OrbitOct 30: Champi From Orbit, Voyager's Grand Tour, Mars in Leo
A Sentinel-3 image of Super Typhoon Champi, Voyager's grand tour of the outer planets, Mars moving into Leo with the Moon passing by, and a week of volcanic…
Earth and OrbitOct 29: Super Typhoon In-fa Weakens While Crossing the Pacific
Super Typhoon In-fa loses a little strength east of Guam, Vance and Arnab fade, a magnitude 6.4 quake hits near Easter Island, and Reid Wiseman joins JPL…
Earth and OrbitOct 28: Typhoon In-fa Strengthens as Curiosity Changes Rocks
Typhoon In-fa's 140 mile per hour winds lead a look at four tropical systems. Curiosity picks a new drill site at Nazca, a study doubts comets seeded life, and…
Earth and OrbitOct 26: Tropical Storm Vance Weakens as Fire Reports Go Stale
Tropical Storms Vance and Champi both weakened since the last update, two wildfire reports are days old, and solar flare ribbons help locate hidden energy…
Earth and OrbitOct 25: Bonin Islands Quake and Weakening Storms Champi and Vance
A magnitude six point five quake near Japan's Bonin Islands, weakening Tropical Storm Champi and Hurricane Vance, a stale Florida wildfire report, solar flare…
Earth and OrbitOct 24: Twin Vanuatu Quakes and a Weakening Typhoon Champi
Two strong earthquakes near Vanuatu, Super Typhoon Champi weakening near Taiwan, Hurricane Vance in the Pacific, NASA's faster Moon plans, and Mercury's turn…
Earth and OrbitOct 23: Magnitude 7 Quake in China, Champi Nears Taiwan
A magnitude 7 earthquake near Nagqu, China, and Super Typhoon Champi closing on Taiwan, plus Agueda weakening, Webb's lopsided exoplanet, and a Moon-Neptune…
Earth and OrbitOct 22: Typhoon Champi Weakens Near Taiwan, Agueda Strengthens
Super Typhoon Champi drops in wind speed southeast of Taiwan while Tropical Storm Agueda strengthens, two California fires have no update, Iapetus passes…
Earth and OrbitOct 21: Orionid Meteors Peak as Typhoon Champi Nears Okinawa
The Orionid meteor shower peaks this morning, Super Typhoon Champi and two other storms are tracked, and SpaceX posts a quarterly profit. Also a look at ESA's…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 18, 2026
Tonight is about translation: taking something real and rendering it in a form a person can take in, whether that's a moon crossing a planet, a nebula turned…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 17, 2026
Three storms are spinning over open Pacific water, and a lot of what's in the sky today is about seeing something from a distance versus getting close enough…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 16, 2026
Some things in the sky keep appointments, and today's stories are about the appointments, and the people trying to make them more frequent.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 15, 2026
Two Pacific storms are running side by side off Mexico, and two older storm reports have gone quiet.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 14, 2026
Today is about the difference between how a thing first looks and what it turns out to be, and how much depends on where you happen to be standing when you…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 13, 2026
Today is a day about who gets to look after the places where things happen, and what it takes to keep a place running: orbit's next tenants, a launch pad being…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 12, 2026
Some things get rehearsed before they happen, and some just happen.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 11, 2026
Three storms are spinning in the Pacific with real strength behind them, and a handful of space stories today are about the same trick: learning something by…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 10, 2026
Overnight, the ground under one part of Panama would not settle, and the rest of today's stories are about things that stay put, or finally get back to ground…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 9, 2026
Plans bend, and a few of the stories coming in right now are about exactly how they bend: a crew that came home on a different timetable than first imagined, a…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 8, 2026
Today's sky stories keep circling back to the same practical question: what does it actually take to see something clearly, whether that something is ninety…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 7, 2026
What ties today's sky stories together is that the most violent things out there turn out to be the ones doing the building.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 6, 2026
What's different about today isn't any one event, it's how unevenly certain we get to be about each of them.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 5, 2026
Start with the heat shield story, because it's the clearest version of that idea.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 4, 2026
Today's got one station getting fuller and one space agency quietly working out how to build a second one, plus a theoretical world that doesn't need the kind…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 3, 2026
Today's thread is about shelter - where it's being sought, where it isn't available at all, and where none was ever an option to begin with.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 2, 2026
Today the throughline is about what a surface hides versus what's actually underneath it - a rock that looks like one object but isn't, a cloud bank that looks…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- October 1, 2026
Today the thread running through the science is revision - things we thought we had measured correctly turning out to be a little different once better…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 29, 2026
Today isn't built around one big event so much as a handful of things getting quietly reclassified - a black hole that might build galaxies instead of just…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 28, 2026
Today's thread is energy, in every form we've got a story about - the wind driving four different storms at four different strengths, the thrust waiting to…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 27, 2026
Today is mostly about things that are bigger, older, or stranger than they first appear once someone actually goes looking closer.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 26, 2026
Today's got two very different kinds of movement in it - things stuck waiting on somebody's signature, and things going ahead whether anyone signs anything or…
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Earth and Orbit -- September 25, 2026
Today's got an odd little thread running through it: a lot of watching, done by very different kinds of eyes.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 24, 2026
We're watching a strange split in what we can actually do in space right now.
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Earth and Orbit -- September 23, 2026
We have a congestion problem that's not in traffic but in orbit, and it's the kind of problem that solves itself only badly if we don't intervene first.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 22, 2026
A century ago, a hurricane hit Miami and changed how we forecast weather.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 21, 2026
You're looking at a moment when space technology is solving two completely different problems at once, and they're pulling in opposite directions.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 20, 2026
We've got a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Papua New Guinea this morning, about forty-nine kilometers north-northeast of Kainantu, and while the numbers alone…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 19, 2026
We're watching impacts reshape what we think we know about small moons, while on Earth right now, fire and water are moving faster than anyone's definitions…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 18, 2026
Incoming gas flowing toward a triple star system is aligning with the star's outer ring in a way that suggests something deeper about how planets form around…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 17, 2026
A planet that's barely a million years old is teaching astronomers what the first moments of a planetary system actually look like.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 16, 2026
A star is compressing millions of years of stellar aging into a timescale human instruments can actually watch.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 15, 2026
We're tracking what happens when people start planning their exits from the places they were supposed to stay.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 14, 2026
There's a particular kind of longevity at work in today's material - not the dramatic kind where a spacecraft keeps going against the odds, but the kind where…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 13, 2026
There's a strange symmetry in today's material between what we've already seen and what we're only now learning we saw.
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 12, 2026
There's a split in today's material between things that broke in the past and things that are still breaking now - some of it ancient history in space terms…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 11, 2026
We've got a day that splits between Earth moving and space waiting - two very different kinds of momentum happening at scales that don't usually get compared…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 10, 2026
We've got a day where the infrastructure we build to protect things and the infrastructure we build to understand them are finally working in opposite…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 9, 2026
Space exploration and Earth observation are both revealing something about the infrastructure we build to notice things - and about the gaps between noticing…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 8, 2026
We're looking at a day where space infrastructure and Earth observation are both revealing something about detection itself - about what we see when we're…
Earth and OrbitEarth and Orbit -- September 7, 2026
You're looking at a Wednesday where everything's in motion at once, but the motion isn't random - it's constrained by the same invisible ceiling in two…