Most interviews were recorded stereophonicly with the intention they be heard on home hi-fidelity stereophonic radio equipment. We recommend you listen to these downloadable audio files in this way. If you choose to listen with headphone or earbuds you may find the left-ear / right-ear effect unpleasant.
| BROADCAST DATE |
GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| April 7 | Leighton Farrell Corporate Relations and Public Affairs Manager Aussat Limited Sydney | Aussat and its operations. Company up for sale. Listen or Download (10 min 46 s - 10.1 MB) |
| April 14 | Kirby Iken Space Insurance Manager GIO Insurance Sydney | Space insurance. Listen or Download (12 min 58 s - 12.1 MB) |
| April 14 | Martin Kirkby Manager Australian Space Insurance Group Melbourne | Insurance loss when Anik E2 fails to deplay antenna. Listen or Download (5 min 57 s - 5.6 MB) |
| May 12 | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space technology Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Sydney | Powerhouse Museum's varied space display from China, Australia, USSR. Listen or Download (11 min 40 s - 10.9 MB) |
| May | Aaron Cohen Director Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | Preparations for STS 40 Spacelab Life Science mission. Physiological research; planning for humans to Mars; environental conditions in a closed space; role of a space station in Moon exploration; restructuring the design of Space Station Freedom; the JSC Bioreactor; possible Australian involvement in space station instrumentation; curation of the Apollo moon rocks; and possible use of lunar soil helium-3 in fusion reactors. Listen or Download (18 min 17 s - 17.3 MB) |
| Unknown date | Bill Barrett Manager Major Contracts OTC Ltd Sydney | OTC Antenna development, use of Intelsat system, antenna exports and use of Demand Assigned Multiple Access Network in the Pacific region. Listen or Download (10 min 24 s - 9.7 MB) |
| Unknown date | Bill Barrett Manager Major Contracts OTC Ltd Sydney | OTC Stations at Mooree and Ceduna. The October 20 podcast below incorporates this interview. |
| October 20 | Bill Barrett Manager Major Contracts OTC Ltd Sydney | OTC's involvement in the early days of satellite communications. Listening to Sputnik 1, the early Intelsat satellites, NASA links through Canarvon, building ground stations at Moree, Ceduna and Sydney's Oxford Falls. Listen or Download (14 min 45 s - 13.8 MB) |
| October 20 | Leighton Farrell Corporate Relations and Public Affairs Manager Aussat Limited Sydney | Aussat and its operations. Company up for sale. Effects of forthcoming era of Pay-TV. Listen or Download (4 min 57 s - 4.6 MB) |
| October 20 | Eugene Kopp Manager of Technology Development Space and Communications Group Hughes Aircraft Company Los Angeles | Direct broadcast satellites, video compression techniques. This was an extract from the full interview broadcast Nov 3 and 13. |
| November 3 | Eugene Kopp Manager of Technology Development Space and Communications Group Hughes Aircraft Company Los Angeles | Communications services into the 21st century. Part 1 Listen or Download (7 min 43 s - 7.2 MB) |
| November 3 | Jane Derwent VCE Student Ashwood College Ashwood | Work on using astronomical measurements to determine the mass of Saturn. |
| November 13 | Eugene Kopp Manager of Technology Development Space and Communications Group Hughes Aircraft Company Los Angeles | Communications services into the 21st century. Part 2. Listen or Download (8 min 35 s - 8.0 MB) |
| November 13 | Roger Franzen Space and Quality Assurance Manager Auspace Limited Canberra | Australian Launch Vehicle, possible payloads. Listen or download (15 min 58 s - 17.1 MB) |
| November 20 | Mark Blair Defense Science and Technology Organisation Salisbury South Australia and Co-ordinator Ausroc Projects Group | Part 1: Ausroc 2 project - Size, trajectory, Woomera launch site, range safety, telemetry, insurance and funding. Listen or Download Take 1 of Part 1 (5 min 10 s - 4.8 MB) Listen or Download Take 2 of Part 1 (3 min 17 s - 3.0 MB) Part 2: How Ausroc 1 was lost, chareacteristics of Ausroc 2 and plans for Ausroc 3. |
| November 27 | Mark Blair Defense Science and Technology Organisation Salisbury South Australia and Co-ordinator Ausroc Projects Group | Ausroc 1 project history. Advice for youngsters intersted in rocketry. Listen or Download (10 min 32 s - 9.8 MB) |
| November 27 | Tzu Pei Chen Ausroc Projects Group Melbourne | Computer control of Ausroc rocket. |
| November 27 | John Coleman Ausroc Projects Group Melbourne | Data command and telemetry on the Ausroc project. |
| November 27 | Bill Barrett Manager Major Contracts OTC Ltd Sydney | Anniversary of first television broadcast from Canarvon to United Kingdom. The advent and growth of international television via satellite. Reduced cost of telephony. Listen or Download (5 min 23 s - 5.0 MB) |
| November 27 | John Egan Commercial Space Consultant USA | Commercial Satellite Launch services, Industrial Space Facility, Spacehab, weather satellites. Listen or Download (15 min 57 s - 14.9 MB) |
| December 4 | Ed Roberts Major Projects Manager Auspace Canberra | The Global Positioning System. Listen or Download (9 min 41 s - 9.0 MB) |
| December 11 | John Egan Commercial Space Consultant USA | Space Commercialisation Listen or Download (6 min 54 s - 6.4 MB) |
| December 18 | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space technology Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Sydney | Space Station display. Listen or download (9 min 20 s - 8.7 MB) |
| December 18 | Ed Roberts Manager Major Projects Auspace Canberra | Global Positioning System applications Listen or Download (7 min 3 s - 6.6 MB) |
| Unknown date | David White Minister Manufacturing and Industry Development State Government of Victoria Melbourne | Aerospace in Victoria. Listen or Download (5 min 50 s - 5.4 MB) |
