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Friday, September 5, 2025

🎥 What's new with the First Up video podcast

09/05/2025

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FIRST UP AUDIO - NEW FORMAT

Today's headline: NASA's Acting Administrator Is 'Angry'

We recently changed the format of our First Up Audio podcast on YouTube and our audience has noticed. Viewership increased significantly in August with more than 642 hours watched and more than 19,000 plays. The podcast is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts in audio format only.

The updated video version, only available on our YouTube channel, now includes related images for each news item making for a more compelling 10 minute or less weekday morning update.

WATCH TODAY'S EPISODE

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Nuclear Power in Space - Watch as experts discuss why the stakes on this issue are high, what's changed in the past year and whether this time the technology can finally leave the launch pad.
Space Based Solar Power - Catch up on the technical, economic and policy landscape of space-based solar power. Learn how this decades-old concept may soon become a key component of the global energy portfolio — and what steps are needed to get there.

SPACE MINDS PODCAST

Carbon Mapper and tracking super pollutants

In this week's episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Riley Duren, CEO of Carbon Mapper and veteran of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Duren discusses how his nonprofit is harnessing cutting-edge satellite technology to track methane and carbon dioxide emissions — the "super pollutants" driving climate change. He explains Carbon Mapper's mission to make greenhouse gas data visible and actionable, the technical innovations behind their hyperspectral satellites, and the incentives that motivate companies to reduce emissions.

Drawing from his decades at NASA, Duren highlights the shift from risk-averse institutional missions to an agile, public-private partnership model, and why moving fast is essential in the fight against climate change.

Read more: The full transcript for the episode.

🎧 Other Recent Episodes

How microgravity could transform pharmaceuticals - In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Will Bruey, CEO and co-founder of Varda Space Industries — a company developing in-space pharmaceutical manufacturing.
The future of space infrastructure - Al Tadros, chief technology officer at Redwire, joins David Ariosto to explore the future of space infrastructure and what that means for space companies.

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