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Japan’s Phobos mission is almost ready to launch and so is Roman, NASA needs help re-inventing the wheel, why Earth is inevitable, and on Space Bites+, melting diamonds to learn more about ice giant interiors. All this and more in this week’s Space Bites.

00:00 Intro
00:17 MMX Is Ready
03:18 Possible Origin of Deimos
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/marss-funky-moon-deimos-was-shaped-by-an-impact
05:36 Phobos Transit

Perseverance Captures Another Phobos Transit


07:09 Starship aboard https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:255286
08:40 SpaceX’s $100B expansion plan
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/spacex-intends-to-invest-up-to-100-billion-in-massive-louisiana-spaceport/
10:30 Reinventing the Wheel for NASA

NASA Challenge Tests Wheel Designs for Moon Base Mobility


13:20 Skyfall Drones
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-skyfall-mars-helicopters-will-feature-a-revolutionary-antenna-design
16:45 More Leads for Dark Matter
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-distant-stream-of-stars-may-offer-new-clues-to-dark-matter
18:56 Vote results
19:34 Earth is inevitable
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-solar-system-models-show-earth-is-no-fluke
21:33 Roman’s ready to launch
23:23 New image of Betelgeuse

ALMA Reveals Long-Lived Hotspots on Betelgeuse’s Bubbling Surface


25:06 More space news
26:17 Final thoughts

Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov

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