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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 4 December 2024:
Australian Space Industry 2024 - Part 19
Tim Parsons, Co-Founder X-Lab:
We take a look back at the state of the Australian space industry before the establishment of the Australian Space Agency — has much changed?
* Changing global space trends; start-up companies questioning space regulatory requirements; and educational needs.
* Defence space in Australia.
(Recorded at a meeting of the Space Association of Australia, Elsternwick)
Twinkle:
The University of Southern Queensland is involved in the commercial Twinkle astronomy satellite planned for launch in 2025. (Inserts courtesy BSSL, USQ)
Hypersonic test vehicles:
* The Hypersonix Launch Systems DART hypersonic test vehicle is to be launched on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket.
* Meanwhile, Gilmour Space is entering the hypersonics market with its own hypersonic flight test service scheduled to launch in 2025.
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 November 2024:
Australian Space Industry 2024 - Part 18:
iLAuNCH UK-Australia Space Bridge Myriota.(Inserts courtesy ABC, BNSC, SMC, iLAuNCH, Grundfos)
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 20 November 2024:
Solar System Missions — Part 3:
A survey of the currently active spacecraft studying our Solar System. Today, Jupiter, Kuiper Belt and Uranus.
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 13 November 2024:
Try SCE to Aux:
Marking the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 12 mission, with a detailed account of the lightning strikes during ascent, and profiles of astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean.
When Shirley Bassey met Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad.
A brief history of space tracking in Australia by space historian, Colin MacKellar.
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 6 November 2024:
Australian Space Industry 2024 — Part 17:
Southern Launch's Whalers Way launch site approved Gilmour Space receives Eris orbital launch permit JP9102 project for a military geostationary communications satellite cancelled STaR Shot overview (Rod Smith, Leader, STaR Shot, DSTG, Adelaide) Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG’s) small satellite programme Skykraft forges ahead with its aeronautical satellite constellation.(Audio inserts courtesy ABC, Sky, DSTG, SIAA)
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 30 October 2024:
Solar System Missions - Part 2:
A survey of the currently active spacecraft studying our Solar System. Today Mars, Asteroids and Jupiter.
Australian Space Industry 2024 - Part 16:
Buccaneer Main Mission due as Buccaneer Risk Mitigation Mission reenters on 2024 October 4 SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre and New Zealand joint projects SatPing Takahe Mission Centauri satellites. -
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 23 October 2024:
Australian Space Industry 2024 - Part 15:
* Scott Morrison joins Space Centre Australia
* Equatorial Launch Australia signs up Sirius Space Services
* Neuman Space teams with Inovor
* Space Machines' Optimus 2 to be launched by New Space in 2026
* Australian Defence Force Space Command takes up residency at Adelaide's Lot 14.
Solar System Missions — Part 1:
A survey of the currently active spacecraft studying our Solar System. Today, the Sun, Mercury and Venus.
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 16 October 2024:
Astrophysics miscellany:
* Gamma-ray bursts
* Chandra X-ray Observatory sees big explosion
* Black hole outflow
* NuSTAR.
What sedimentary rock layers can reveal about the evolution of the solar system with Prof. Walter Alvarez UC Berkley, California (Courtesy UA)
Large space structures: Dr Alexey Kondyurin, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Physics, University of Sydney, discusses large space structures of volume 7000 cubic metres made of composite materials cured in space.
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is designed to discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest dwarf stars in the sky (Inserts courtesy CXC, GSFC, NASA)
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 9 October 2024:
Fram2 Polar Mission — Part 2: Greenland & Polar Orbit
The strange and convoluted story of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Fram2 private polar orbiting space mission and of its crew members. Eric Philips, an Australian polar explorer, is on the crew of Fram2.
Space Show News:
Presidential candidate and ex-president Donald Trump wants the U.S. to send a crewed mission to Mars by 2028!
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 2 October 2024:
Space Show News:
* Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: Having emerged intact from behind the Sun, it is now being observed from Australia and may become a daytime comet.
* A French-China cooperative satellite, the Space Variable Objects Monitor or SVOM, has been placed into orbit to monitor gamma-ray bursts.
From The Space Show Archive:
The Fermi satellite with MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cerenkov) experiment and VERITAS (the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System).
Early findings of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have been revised:
According to a new study in the Astronomical Journal led by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Katherine Chworowsky, early galaxies are in fact much less massive than they first appeared in the JWST data. Black holes in some of these galaxies make them appear much brighter and bigger than they really are.
Fram2 Polar Mission — Part 1: One More Orbit
The strange and convoluted story of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Fram2 private space polar orbiting mission, and of its crew members.
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 25 September 2024:
Space Show News:
* Asteroid 2024 PT5 — The tiny asteroid 2024 PT5 will be temporarily 'captured' by Earth's gravity and become a ‘mini-Moon’.
* MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission orbits Mars for 10 years.
* Perseverance continues to investigate Mars, collect and cache rock samples.
Mars and Europa — Ocean Worlds?:
Debunking reports that the InSight lander has discovered Mars has a subterranean global ocean, and how the Europa Clipper mission will characterise the suspected global ocean beneath the frozen crust on Jupiter’s moon, Europa.
From the archives: What do we know about galaxy formation from the Chandra X-ray Observatory?
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: Having emerged intact from behind the Sun, it is now being observed from Australia and may become a daytime comet.
Fourteen Day Limit Busted! — Cosmonauts return to Earth after 373 days, further disproving a Soviet scientist's 1965 claim that the limit for human spaceflight would be fourteen days.
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa by Ada Limón, dedicated to NASA's Europa Clipper mission.
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 18 September 2024:
Starlink and the Ionosphere:
An alarming scientific paper by Sierra Solter points to possible disastrous effects on the Earth's magnetosphere caused by Starlink and other satellite constellations.
Polaris Dawn mission:
* Comparing the full extra vehicular activities by Alexi Leonov and Ed White with the stand-up EVA on the Polaris Dawn mission.
* Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, visits SpaceX to meet with the Polaris Dawn crew. (Inserts courtesy NZBC, VOA, SpaceX)
* Music from space: The Harmony of Resilience.
Australian Space Industry 2024 - Part 14:
The Bogong thruster flown on an Australian Skykraft 3 satellite.
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 11 September 2024:
Australian Binar satellites:
* A detailed report on the fate of Curtin University's Binar-1 cubesat in 2021
* The deployment of the Binar-2, Binar-3 and Binar-4 cubesats on 29 August 2024
* Plans for Binar Prospector
Europa Clipper mission:
* After rigorous testing of suspect transistors, it has been decided to proceed with the launch next month of the Europa Clipper spacecraft to fly the originally planned trajectory to the icy moon of Jupiter. (Insert courtesy NASA HQ)
Polaris Dawn crew:
* Profiles of the crew of the privately funded Polaris Dawn mission in a rented SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. (Insert courtesy SpaceX)
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 4 September 2024:
Space Show News:
* Boeing, boing, boing — strange pulsing noise emanates from the speakers on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner.
A collection of reports from The Space Show archive about astronomy and space science:
European Southern Observatory HARPS telescope discovers a Solar twin in an open cluster hosting exoplanets. A look back at the discovery of the first Earth-like exoplanet. Hubble Space Telescope used to observe the formation of young stars with dynamic gas jets. Research into stellar magnetism reveals the origins of geo-magnetic storms on Earth. Secrets of the super-massive black hole Sagittarius A* orbiting the centre of our Milky Way galaxy revealed. -
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 28 August 2024:
Space Show News:
* Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test update —Starliner to return uncrewed and the crew to return on Crew Dragon 9 in February 2025
Astronomical Miscellany:
ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre Array) — European Southern Observatory, Chile HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) — European Southern Observatory Europa Clipper being prepared for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Luna H-Map results JWST discovers most distant galaxy Solar spicules ESA’s Solar Orbiter sheds light on solar wind Plasma oscillations around Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko The van Allen Radiation belts Exoplanets(Audio inserts courtesy JSC, ESO, JPL, ASU, GSFC)
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 21 August 2024:
SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter 11 rideshare mission:
The launch of Kanyini, CUAVA-2, and Waratah Seed 1 (Inserts courtesy SpaceX)
An update on the University of Melbourne’s SpIRIT satellite tests of the Neuman Drive.
Findings from the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) crash into the double asteroid have been published and reveal Didymos and Dimorphos' origin.
Space Show News:
* Binary star system fuels pulsar transformation
* VIPER cancellation impact on Artemis 3 landing site selection
* AROSE Moon rover design revealed.
Astrobotic mobility service for planetary surfaces and Cube Rover explained.
Jupiter-sized exoplanet experiences atmospheric erosion due to X-ray bursts from its nearby parent star.
Vice President Kamala Harris discusses three space priorities of the United States National Space Council.
A development update on the Neutron rocket and its Archimedes engine with Peter Beck, CEO, Rocket Lab. (Courtesy Rocket Lab)
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 14 August 2024:
Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN):
SouthPAN is a joint initiative of the Australian and New Zealand Governments that provides Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) for position, navigation and timing services for Australia and New Zealand.
Geoscience Australia as the Australian Government lead agency, is working in collaboration with Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand on the development, deployment, and operation of SouthPAN, the first SBAS in the Southern Hemisphere.
SouthPAN is comprised of reference stations, telecommunications infrastructure, computing centres, signal generators, and satellites that provide improved positioning and navigation services in Australia, New Zealand, and its maritime region.
A trio of Aussie cubesats
KANYINI — South Australian Space Services Mission:
SmartSat CRC (Cooperative Research Centre)Myriota Inovor Technologies Government of South Australia: South Australian Space Industry CentreCUAVA 2: ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for CubeSats, UAVs, and their Applications (CUAVA)
Waratah Seed 1
SpaceMAITRI.
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 7 August 2024:
Boeing Starliner Crewed Flight Test:
The details of the Starliner CFT and some of the headlines and stories about it. Also, scheduling of traffic at the International Space Station. (Inserts courtesy JSC)
Satellite-based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) for Position, Navigation and Timing
SBAS panel session recorded at the Space Industry Association of Australia Conference, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, chaired by Roger Franzen:
Roger Franzen, Principal, Earthspace John Dawson, Section Leader, National Positioning Infrastructure Branch, Geoscience Australia Andrew Anderson, Co-chair SBAS Sub-group, Australian Strategic Air Traffic Management Group Julia Mitchell, SBAS Test-Bed Project Manager, Frontier SI Alan Smart, Senior Consultant, ACIL Allen ConsultingSouthern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN)
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 31 July 2024:
The cancellation of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover or VIPER mission:
Details of the rover's objectives and instrumentation by Anthony Colaprete (Project Scientist, VIPER, Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California), and the cancellation announcement and explanation by Niki Fox and Joel Kearns (NASA HQ, Washington). (Inserts courtesy NASA)
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 17 July 2024:
Remembering Joe Engle:
To mark the death last week of Joe Engle, a recounting of his experiences flying the X-15 and the Space Shuttle.
Searching for Skylab:
Remembering the 45th anniversary of the crash of Skylab near Esperance in Western Australia, Skylab 2 astronaut Joe Kerwin and Australian filmmaker Dwight Steven-Boniecki discuss Skylab and the documentary film Searching For Skylab. Kerwin discusses his time in Australia as NASA representative. (Interviewer: Peter Aylward).
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