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| BROADCAST DATE |
GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| January | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space Technology Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Sydney | Space Camp, Alabamba. Listen or download (14 min 17 s - 13.3 MB) |
| January | Greg Ellis Director Centre for Remote Sensing and Deputy Head Department of Land Information Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne | Landsat, Spot, MicroBRIAN, seagrass mapping. Listen or Download (8 min 2 s - 7.5 MB) |
| January | Greg Ellis Director Centre for Remote Sensing and Deputy Head Department of Land Information Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne | Geographic Information System, mapping fire grass hazard. Listen or Download (8 min 24 s - 7.8 MB) |
| January | Peter Ellis Director Centre for Remote Sensing and Deputy Head Division of Information Technology Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Wellington New Zealand | Remote sensing in New Zealand. Note: The broadcast edit of this discussion has been erased. The discussion was never intended for broadcast. It was recorded on a small portable tape recorder as a note taker in preparation of an article published in Space Association News (SpAN 45, 1988 June). Most of this recording is not up to broadcast standard, and is offered here for those patient listeners with an interest in the deveopment of remote sensing in New Zealand in the mid-1980s. Listen or Download (47 min 27 s - 44.4 MB) |
| January | Willem Bouma Division of Atmospheric Research CSIRO Aspendale | Pressure sensor development and lidar for satellites. Listen or Download (5 min 55 s - 5.6 MB) |
| January | John Page University of New South Wales Sydney | Cape York and Woomera launch sites, light satellites, aerospace industry as exporter, HDX helicopter. Listen or Download (9 min 34 s - 7.1 MB) |
| January | John Page University of New South Wales Sydney | Australian Lightsat and possible launch vehicles. Listen or Download (7 min 19 s - 6.8 MB) |
| February | Robert McNaught Astronomer Siding Springs Observatory Coonabarabran | Discovery of most distant asteroid. Listen or Download (6 min 31 s - 6.1 MB) |
| February | Ed Roberts Major Projects Manager Auspace Canberra | Australia's Endeavour payload and its instrumentation Listen or download (6 min 0 s - 5.6 MB) |
| February 5 | Maxim Ross | ? |
| February 12 | Maria Tickle Assistant Staff Manager FTL Company Gold Coast | Full scale Shuttle model, NASA photo and Aboriginal art display. Listen or Download (4 min 39 s - 4.3 MB) |
| February 12 | John Whiteoak Deputy Director Australia Telescope National Facility Narribri | Australia Telescope and its research activities. Listen or Download (5 min 51 s - 5.4 MB) |
| February 12 | David Blair Associate Professor Physics Department University of Western Australia | Promoting his talk about gravity waves from black holes and quasars. Listen or Download (7 min 1 s - 6.5 MB) |
| February 26 | Ian Bryce Technical Director Australian Space Engineering Research Association Sydney | ASERA and the Ausroc project. Listen or Download (5 min 36 s - 5.2 MB) |
| March 4 | Maria Tickle Assistant Staff Manager FTL Company Gold Coast | Shuttle display, including freeze dried food, space suits, toilet. Listen or Download (5 min 44 s - 5.3 MB) |
| May 20 | Jim Blanksby Astronomical Society of Victoria Melbourne | Description of an aurora seen from Melbourne. Listen or Download (1 min 56 s - 1.8 MB) |
| May 20 | Norman Visandthan Senior Fellow Australian National University Canberra | Cold Dark Natter, Origin of Universe, the COBE results. Listen or Download Part 1 (4 min 8 s - 4.0 MB) Listen or Download Part 2 (5 min 59 s - 5.5 MB) |
| May 20 | Ian Bryce Technical Director Australian Space Engineering Research Association Sydney | ASERA satellite project Listen or Download (10 min 37 s - 9.9 MB) |
| June 10 | Vinod Modi Department of Mechanical Engineering University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada | Tethered Satellites, the Shuttle Tethered Satellite Listen or Download Part 1 (7 min 42 s - 7.2 MB) Listen or Download Part 2 (12 min 32 s - 11.7 MB) |
| June 17 | Mike Roach Physics Teacher Marion High School Clovelly Park South Australia | Australian International Space School in Sydney and International Space Camp in Huntsville. |
| June 17 | Fiona Forsyth Magda Kay Year 11 Students The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School South Melbourne | Issues surrounding the placement of radioactive materials into space. |
| June 17 | Vicki Clarke Year 11 Student The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School South Melbourne | Radiation concerns for a manned trip to Mars. |
| June 24 | Kirby Iken Director Spaceguard Sydney | Space debris proliferation Listen or Download (10 min 48 s - 10.1 MB) |
| June 24 | Vinod Modi Department of Mechanical Engineering University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada | Shuttle Tethered Satellites Listen or Download Part 1 (8 min 14 s - 7.7 MB) Listen or Download Part 2 (7 min 32 s - 7.0 MB) |
| August 5 | Liesl Homes Year 11 Student The MacRobertson Girls' High School South Melbourne | Operation Morning Light - the Cosmos 954 incident |
| August 12 | Norman Visandthan Senior Fellow Australian National University Canberra | Large (14 m) new astronomical telescope planned for the Flinders Ranges. Listen or Download Part 2 (6 min 52 s - 6.4 MB) |
| August 19 | Norman Visandthan Senior Fellow Australian National University Canberra | Expansion of universe, age of universe, Big Bang models, Dark Matter, fate of Universe, Big Attractor and Geat Walls. Listen or Download Part 2 (19 min 24 s - 18.1 MB) |
| August 26 | John Coleman President Space Association of Australia and Member Ausroc Projects Group Melbourne | Ausroc 1 and 2. |
| August 26 | Brian Greig Southern Skies Astronomy Centre Melbourne | ISY Astronomy exhibition at Herbarium. |
| September 2 | Bill Tango Senior Lecturer Physics Department Sydney University Sydney | Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI) Listen or Download (8 min 54 s - 8.3 MB) |
| September 9 | John Whiteoak Deputy Director Australia Telescope National Facility Narribri | Using the Australia Telescope to map the Milky Way Galaxy, Visitor Centre open. Listen or Download (7 min 21 s - 6.8 MB) |
| September 23 | Peter Backus Radio Astronomer SETI Institute Mountain View California | Evolution of life on Earth, no life elsewhere in Solar System, use of Aricebo to search for intelligent life, possibility that intelligent species self destruct. Listen or Download (10 min 23 s - 9.7 MB) |
| September 30 | Peter Backus Radio Astronomer SETI Institute Mountain View California | Efforts being made to search for extraterrestrial intelligence, use of Parkes Radio Telescope, radio frequencies, advising the world if signal found. Listen or Download (13 min 46 s - 12.9 MB) |
| October 7 | Peter Backus Radio Astronomer SETI Institute Mountain View California | SETI Institute Educational programmes. Listen or Download (6 min 36 s - 6.1 MB) |
| October 14 | Geoff Alshorn Helena Roberts Space Association of Australia Melbourne | E.T. and Friends - a discussion of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence as portrayed in science fiction. |
| November 4 | David Cartwright Research Leader Surveillance Systems Opto-Electronics Division Defence Science and Technology Organisation Salisbury South Australia | The Jindalee surveillance system and synthetic aperture radar on satellites. Listen or Download (17 min 2 s - 15.9 MB) |
| November 4 | Dianna Greenslade Research Student Ocean Technology Group University of Sydney Sydney | Radar satellites in oceaography. Listen or Download (8 min 19 s - 7.8 MB) |
| November 18 | Cindy Gabbett Year 11 Student The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School South Melbourne | Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators in space. |
| November 25 | David Blair Associate Professor Physics Department University of Western Australia | Gravity waves Listen or Download Nov 25 and Dec 9 parts combined (22 min 17 s - 20.8 MB) |
| December 9 | David Blair Associate Professor Physics Department University of Western Australia | Detector of Gravity waves planned for Australia Listen or Download Nov. 25 and Dec. 9 parts combined (22 min 17 s - 20.8 MB) |
| December 16 | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space Technology Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Sydney | Dr Leopold Dintenfass and his blood experiment on the Shuttle. Listen or Download (7 min 54 s - 7.3 MB) |
