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| BROADCAST DATE | GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown date | Chris Betteridge Trust Services Manager Earth Exchange Museum The Rocks Sydney | Meteorites at the Earth Exchange Museum. Listen or Download (13 min 40 s - 12.8 MB) |
| January | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space technology Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Sydney | Powerhouse displays: Goddard rocket, Roswell Museum Listen or Download (23 min 39 s - 22.1 MB) |
| January | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space technology Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Sydney | Powerhouse displays: space food, shuttle tiles, Skylab, medical kit. (See above for download) |
| January | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space technology Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Sydney | Powerhouse displays: moonrock, Gemini parts, McCracken's cosmic ray detector, Dintenfass' apparatus. (See above for download) |
| January | David Cole Director Ionosphereic Prediction Service Radio and Space Services Chatswood Sydney | The Sun, solar wind, shortwave radio reception, visiting Narribri facility. Listen or Download (10 min 29 s - 9.8 MB) |
| January 20 | Kelvin Wellington Research Scientist Division of Radiophysics CSIRO Ryde Sydney | The Radioastron satellite. The broadcast edits of the January 20, 27 and February 3 interview have been erased. Offered here is the unedited interview. Listen or Download (28 min 2 s - 26.2 MB) |
| January 27 | Kelvin Wellington Research Scientist Division of Radiophysics CSIRO Ryde Sydney | The Radioastron satellite. NOTE: See above for audio. |
| February 3 | Kelvin Wellington Research Scientist Division of Radiophysics CSIRO Ryde Sydney | The Radioastron satellite. NOTE: See above for audio. |
| February 10 | Billy-Anne Dangerfield Manager Woomera Heritage Museum Woomera | The Woomera Heritage Museum Listen or Download (11 min 32 s - 10.8 MB) |
| February 17 | David Jauncy Australia Telescope National Facility Canberra | Radio astronomy, interferometry, Australia Telescope, phasing signals, linking telescopes in Narribri, Canberra and Parkes, space based radio astronomy, Quasat, TDRSS, Radioastron, VSOP, lunar telescope. Listen or Download (30 min 15 s - 28.2 MB) |
| February 24 | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space technology Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Sydney | Powerhouse exhibits: Moon rock, Optus B, Dintenfass. Listen or Download (7 min 8 s - 6.6 MB) |
| March 3 | David Blair Associate Professor Physics Department University of Western Australia Perth | Characteristics of gravity waves. Listen or Download (9 min 12 s - 8.6 MB) |
| March 10 | Peter Daly Professor Satellite Communications Group Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds Leeds United Kingdom attached to University of Sydney Sydney | Glonass satellite navigation system and the Navstar Global Positioning System Listen or download (8 min 5 s - 7.5 MB) |
| March 31 | Peter Daly Professor Satellite Communications Group Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds Leeds United Kingdom attached to University of Sydney Sydney | Reason why he decided to work on studying Glonass, visit to Russia. Listen or download Mar 31, Apr 21 and Apr 28 full interview as one file (39 min 15 s - 36.8 MB) |
| April 7 | Peter Daly Professor Satellite Communications Group Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds Leeds United Kingdom attached to University of Sydney Sydney | Glonass satellite navigation system and why the Soviet Union needed it. Listen or download (7 min 42 s - 7.2 MB) |
| April 14 | Peter Daly Professor Satellite Communications Group Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds Leeds United Kingdom attached to University of Sydney Sydney | Glonass satellite navigation system, registration with the IFRB, decoding the signals, accuracy. Listen or download (15 min 53 s - 14.9 MB) |
| April 21 | Peter Daly Professor Satellite Communications Group Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds Leeds United Kingdom attached to University of Sydney Sydney | Glonass satellite navigation system, stability of clocks, cooperation with West, difference between Glonass and GPS time references, use to measure continental drift. Listen or download Mar 31, Apr 21 and Apr 28 full interview as one file (39 min 15 s - 36.8 MB) |
| April 28 | Peter Daly Professor Satellite Communications Group Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds Leeds United Kingdom attached to University of Sydney Sydney | Navstar Global Positioning System, improvements in navigation, US government plans, use by airlines, ensuring reliability, future GPS systems. Listen or download Mar 31, Apr 21 and Apr 28 full interview as one file (39 min 15 s - 36.8 MB) |
| May 12 | Don Koulaouzos Marketing Manager Telstra Sydney | Formation of Telstra, use of Intelsat and Inmarsat satellites, regulatory issues. Listen or Download (12 min 55 s - 12.1 MB) |
| May 26 | Graham Brown Manager Satellite Operations Optus Communications Sydney | Fate of Optus B2, future Optus B3 Listen or download interview and introduction (12 min 23 s - 11.6 MB) |
| June 9 | Year 11 Physics Students The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School South Melbourne | Issues concerning the placement of radioisotope thermoelectric generators in space. |
| June 16 | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space technology Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Sydney | Powerhouse exhibits: Goddard and the hoopskirt rocket. Listen or Download (5 min 42 s - 5.3 MB) |
| June 23 | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space technology Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Sydney | Powerhouse exhibits: Space food, shuttle tiles, Beuliah balls, piece of Skylab wanted, medical treatment in space. Listen or Download (10 min 24 s - 9.7 MB) |
| June 23 | Bruce Forster Associate Professor School of Surveying and Director Centre for Remote Sensing University of New South Wales Sydney | Remote sensing satellites, data reception at Alice Springs, laboratory at UNSW, use of satellite images of Sydney, university post-graduate programmes, Asian involvement. Listen or Download (12 min 57 s - 12.1 MB) |
| June 23 | Matthew James Consultant in Space Education and Policy Canberra | Australian space activities, present and future. Listen or Download (9 min 36 s - 9.0 MB) |
| July | Nick Lomb Curator Astronomy Sydney Observatory Sydney | Sydney Observatory: location, timeball, atomic clocks, surveying New South wales, astrographic catalogue. Listen or Download (10 min 14 s - 9.5 MB) |
| August | Mike Roach Vice President South Australian Science Teachers' Association Adelaide | National Science Curriculum, and the astronomy component. Listen or download interview and introduction - part missing due to accidental erasure (5 min 2 s - 4.7 MB) |
| August 4 | Chris Rizos Senior Lecturer School of Surveying University of New South Wales Sydney | Geodesy from mythology and Greek experiment to satellites. Listen or Download (16 min 21 s - 15.3 MB) |
| August 4 | Susan Siew Year 12 Physics Student The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School South Melbourne | Calculations regarding the rotation of double asteroid Toutatis. |
| August 11 | Chris Rizos Senior Lecturer School of Surveying University of New South Wales Sydney | Reasons for needing to know the precise shape of the Earth, and how satellites determine that shape. Listen or Download (8 min 44 s - 8.1 MB) |
| August 18 | Bob Dyer Area Control Officer Defence Support Centre Woomera | Importance of Woomera in Australian history, and some of the projects done at Woomera, current activity, tourist park and museum. Listen or Download (14 min 41 s - 13.7 MB) |
| August 18 | Peter Nelson Variable Star Section Astronomical Society of Victoria Melbourne | Observing variable stars. |
| September 1 | Frank Papa Manufacturing Systems Engineering Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne | Robotics in space. |
| September 1 | Richard Tonkin Aerospace Ambassodors Melbourne | Visit to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, planned trip to see Long March 2E launch in China and Ariane launch in French Guiana. |
| September 15 | Chris Rizos Senior Lecturer School of Surveying University of New South Wales Sydney | How mariners navigated before satellites, the Transit Navy Navigation Satellite System, Navstar. Listen or Download (9 min 23 s - 8.8 MB) |
| September 22 | Chris Rizos Senior Lecturer School of Surveying University of New South Wales Sydney | Use of Navstar by the UNSW, potential use in navigating cars around city. Listen or Download (11 min 3 s - 10.3 MB) |
| October 6 | Johnathan Nally Editor Sky and Space Magazine Sydney | MACHOS: Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects as candidates for cold dark matter. Listen or Download (9 min 32 s - 8.9 MB) |
| October 6 | Johnathan Nally Editor Sky and Space Magazine Sydney | Astrofest - a star observing session for the puiblic in the Warrumbungles. Listen or Download (3 min 5 s - 2.9 MB) |
| October 13 | Ron Eckers Director Australia Telescope National Facility and David Allen Astronomer Anglo-Australian Telescope Ryde Sydney | Cooperation in seach for supernovae remnants using radio and infrared wavelengths that led to discovery of star in presupernova phase. Listen or download interview (12 min 1 s - 11.2 MB) |
| October 20 | Wilfred Walsh Research Student University of New South Wales Sydney | The search for cold dark matter, and his role in it. Listen or download interview (7 min 18 s - 6.8 MB) |
| October 20 | Johnathan Nally Editor Sky and Space Magazine Sydney | Reading for Radio for the Print Handicaped (3RPH). Listen or download interview and introduction (1 min 51 s - 1.7 MB) |
| October 27 | Chris Rizos Senior Lecturer School of Surveying University of New South Wales Sydney | Use of Navstar GPS by UNSW, tie in with communications and CD_ROM, encryption and clawback of accuracy, unreliability of Glonass, Inmarsat interest, niche services. Listen or Download (18 min 42 s - 17.5 MB) |
| October 27 | Ron Eckers Director Australia Telescope National Facility and David Allen Astronomer Anglo-Australian Telescope Ryde Sydney | Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 Listen or download interview (9 min 14 s - 8.6 MB) |
| November 10 | David Cole Director Ionosphereic Prediction Service Radio and Space Services Chatswood Sydney | Solar wind and its effect on spacecraft, ionospheric beacons (none on Optus B), visiting Narribri facility. Listen or Download (9 min 20 s - 8.7 MB) |
| December 8 | Simon Johnston Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics University of Sydney Sydney | Millisecond pulsars and their use in timekeeping applications. Listen or download interview (6 min 59 s - 6.5 MB) |
| December 15 | Michael Burton Lecturer in Astronomy University of New South Wales Sydney | Astronomy in Antarctica Listen or download interview (9 min 45 s - 9.1 MB) |
| Unknown date | Dick Manchester Astronomer Australia Telescope National Facility Narribri | An astronomy award and millisecond pulsars Listen or download interview (7 min 56 s - 7.4 MB) Listen or download pulsar 0437-4715 (34 s - 0.5 MB) Listen or download Pulsar 1937+21 Integrated (23 s - 0.3 MB) Listen or download Pulsar Crab Integrated (19 s - 0.3 MB) |
