Episodes
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NASA announces asteroid Bennu contains carbon and water, a comet explosion may have kick started agriculture in Syria and the light pollution from artificial satellites has now reached the point where the brightest stars in the night sky can't compete for our attention...
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A successful crash landing back to Earth. Seven years and a handful of days after it was launched, OSIRIS-REx returns home with the all important samples of asteroid Bennu. Within 90 minutes NASA teams had secured the payload and moved it to a temporary clean room at the Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City. There, it's under a constant bath of nitrogen - to avoid Earthly contamination.
Your deep dive into OSIRIS-REx, and the only podcast to speak with NASA scientists is right here on Trekzone's Talkin' Science. -
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Hydrogen surrounding NGC 4632 could make it a rare polar ring galaxy. A bubble of galaxies has been found - measuring a billion light-years across, and Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un meet at an east Russian cosmodrome seemingly to discuss space collaboration efforts…
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Second time's a charm. Chandrayaan-3 makes India the first country to reach the Moon's southern pole. Artificial Intelligence takes the pressure off … finding a Near Earth Asteroid has now gotten twice as fast… and Australia's three space launch providers have news to share. From a multi-year deal at ELA to permanent facility approval at Southern Launch and streamlining technology integration at Gilmour Space.
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Southern Launch's new corporate look, possible fingerprints of gravitational waves, a planet that shouldn't exist, and just what the heck is THAT on the moon?
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The 15th biannual space forum was recently held in Adelaide, the home of Australia's space industry. Trekzone was invited to attend and I spent the day learning about the incredible work being undertaken to advance Australia's sovereign space capabilities.
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It was a big April for our friends at Southern Launch. From signing a memorandum of understanding to retrieve payloads at Koonibba (and relaunch them from Whalers Way) to gearing up to building permanent structures at the Nullarbor Plains site and also receiving several nominations at the forthcoming Australian Space Awards.
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Southern Launch gears up to receive satellites at Koonibba, environmental groups sue the FAA over Starship, astronomers hunt for pulsars and Jupiter and Saturn may be contributing to their moons smooth surfaces..
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Starship delayed, the first solar eclipse to grace australian skies since 2014, a student led lunar rover and some fascinating news from deep out in the universe.
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When Artemis II flies next year and breaks free from Earth’s gravity, they’ll be talking via one of three relay stations in the Deep Space Communication Network. Goldstone in California, Madrid in Spain and the Aussies working at the Tidbinbilla Station in Canberra.
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A second coronal hole has been detected on the sun as Gilmour Space continues construction efforts at the Bowen Spaceport. Plus – NASA announces the Artemis 2 crew… our deep dive into the four person team who will take humanity back to lunar orbit next year. Who are they and what’s the Aussie connection?
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Dan Ilic is an Aussie comedian who has been spending his recent time creating his podcast A Rational Fear, in Brisbane for the World Science Festival we caught up with him to find out about that and his work as a panel moderator for conventions like the WSF…
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