What causes Earth’s strongest lightning? | SpaceTime S26E121

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The Space News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 121
*The launch of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft delayed again
Mission managers have rescheduled the launch of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft to a metal asteroid for Thursday October 12th.
*What causes Earth’s strongest lightning
Scientists have found that the planet’s most powerful lightning events – known as super-bolts -- are more likely to strike, the closer a storm cloud’s electrical charging zone is to the land or ocean’s surface.
*The FAA releases its report on Blue Origin’s crash and burn
The US Federal Aviation Administration report into the mid-air failure which destroyed a Blue Origin New Shepherd rocket has ordered a list of 21 corrective actions which need to be undertaken before the company can fly again.
*The Science Report
The 2023 Nobel Prizes in Physics chemistry and Medicine awarded in Sweeden.
A new study is looking at people’s attitudes to Daylight Saving
The commercially available water additive that limits the reformation of plaque and tartar on dogs' teeth.
Skeptics guide anti-vax disinformation.

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