| BROADCAST DATE |
LECTURER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| February 14 | Paul Carter Researcher Melbourne University | A Snapshot Of Australia's First Space Programme. Upper atmosphere research; the International Geophysical Year and its impact; the inaction of the Menzies government; women and radar; Woomera and Peter Morton's Fire Across The Desrt; the end of the Long Tom era; the turf war for control of Australian space activities; revenue considerations meant Australia didn't need to do its own effort; the research at the University of Adelaide in the 1960's and 1970's. (Recorded at Melbourne Final Frontier Festival)
Listen or download (27 min 58 s - 26.9 MB) |
| February 28 | Andrea Boyd ISS Flight Controller European Astronaut Centre Cologne (ex Adelaide) | Space and Australia (Recorded at Lab 14, Carlton)
Listen or download (14 min 19 s - 13.8 MB) |
| March 7 | Lisa Stojanovski Space Educator Perth, W.A. | What Is It Really Like To Live In Space? Things you may have wondered about astronauts, and a few things you wish Lisa hadn't mentioned. (Recorded at Melbourne Final Frontier Festival)
* Listen or download (26 min 1 s - 24.5 MB) N.B. The recording has a mains hum due to a fault in the Melbourne University sound system. * Photo of Lisa |
| March 21 | Adena Silverstein Psychologist Sydney | The role of psychology in space; astronaut selection; how "the right stuff" has changed; windows needed in spacecraft; problems such as boredom and sensory deprivation; noise on the International Space Station; use of psychological questionaires; profiling mood states of individuals and groups; effect of an astronaut's prior experience and culture; supportive factors. (Recorded at Space Association, Elsternwick)
Listen or download (25 min 50 s - 24.8 MB) |
| March 21 | Kerrie Dougherty Space Historian former Curator Powerhouse Museum Sydney | Space technology that is used on Earth. (Recorded at Final Frontier Festival, Melbourne University)
Listen or download (4 min 12 s - 4.0 MB) Photo of Kerrie |
| April 4 | Andre Kuipers ESA Astronaut The Netherlands | His experience on two spaceflights to the International Space Station. (Courtesy ESA) |
| April 18 | John Glenn former astronaut and senator Buzz Aldrin Neil Armstrong | Their thoughts about the past and future of spaceflight as they mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. (Courtesy NASM) |
| April 25 | Christopher Kraft former Flight Diector Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | His experiences as a Flight Director during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. (Courtesy NASM) |
| June 20 | Roving Mars Episode 140 | A global dust storm has put the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity out of action, and is also affecting the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity. Opportunity's current science objectives. (Inserts courtesy JPL) |
| June 20 | Donald Trump President United States of America | Space Policy Objective 3 on orbital debris; Apollo 11; humans to Mars; and a proposal for a United States Space Force. (Inserts courtesy the White House) |
| June 27 | Upulie Divisekera PhD Candidate Monash University Clayton | Human verses Robotic Space Activity (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (2 min 2 s - 2.0 MB) |
| July 11 | Tim Parsons Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer Delta-V Space Alliance Melbourne | Entrepeneurship in Australian space activity. (Recorded at Lab 14, Carlton)
Listen or download (14 min 9 s - 13.6 MB) |
| July 11 | Alan Stern Associate Vice President Space Science and Engineering Division Southwest Research Institute Boulder Colorado | The Genesis of the New Horizons Mission: Why New Horizons was tracked from Canberra; the size of Pluto; discovery in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh; difficulty observing Pluto from Earth; reason for sending a spacecraft to Pluto; discoery of Kuiper Belt objects enhanced the case for a Pluto mission; competing proposals for a Pluto mission; New Horizons and Voyager 2 described; and powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generator. (Recorded at RMIT)
Listen or download (17 min 18 s - 16.6 MB) |
| July 18 | Alan Stern Associate Vice President Space Science and Engineering Division Southwest Research Institute Boulder Colorado | Journey To Pluto: His childhood interest in space; reason for using the Atlas rocket to launch New Horizons; fastest spacecraft; journey to Pluto via Jupiter; New Horizons team only 50 people; contingency cross-training; why it took 16 months to send the Pluto/Charon encounter data back to Earth. (Recorded at RMIT)
Listen or download (10 min 42 s - 10.3 MB) |
| July 25 | Alan Stern Associate Vice President Space Science and Engineering Division Southwest Research Institute Boulder Colorado | Pluto's Moons: New Horizons' approach imagery shows four small satellites of Pluto; why the satellites are bright is not known; origin of the moons; spinning moons; Charon revealed to be very old; ice expansion on freezing causing rifts; origins of colours at the poles; Pluto and Charon compared; and Stern's hope for future missions to Pluto. (Recorded at RMIT)
Listen or download (10 min 26 s - 10.0 MB) |
| August 1 | Enrico Flamini Agenzia Spaziale Italiana Rome Elena Petinelli Roberto Orosei | Subglacial Liquid Water On Mars: From the headquarters of the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana in Rome, the announcement of the apparent finding of liquid water under the south polar ice cap of Mars.
Listen or download (26 min 45 s - 25.7 MB) |
| August 8 | Alan Stern Associate Vice President Space Science and Engineering Division Southwest Research Institute Boulder Colorado | What Have We Learnt Of Pluto?: False colour and real colour imagery; nitrogen glaciers; mountains of water ice; nitrogen cycle; age of glacier; cellular pattern reveals convection; new and old terrains; snow capped mountains; ice volcanoes; evidence that atmosphere has changed; and rivers. (Recorded at RMIT) Listen or download (12 min 24 s - 11.9 MB) |
| August 24 | David Willson Research and Development Engineer Space Science and Astrobiology Division Ames Research Center Mountain View California | How the finding by the Kepler spacecraft of numerous Earth-like planets is impelling a search for extraterrestrial life. (Recorded at Space Association meeting) Listen or download (1 min 11 s - 1.1 MB) |
| September 19 | Alan Stern Associate Vice President Space Science and Engineering Division Southwest Research Institute Boulder Colorado | New Horizons : Future and Public Impact: Exploring the Kuiper belt; the planned 2019 January 1 flyby of 2014 MU69 (later dubbed Ultima Thule); the emotional experience of the Pluto encounter; reports in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. (Recorded at RMIT)
Listen or download (7 min 11 s - 6.9 MB) |
| October 24 | Luke Dixon Lieutenant-Commander Future Submarine Program Royal Australian Navy | Human Factors In Hostile Environments. Projecting 102 years of experience in Australian submarines to long haul space missions. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne)
* Listen or download talk (19 min 16 s - 18.5 MB) * Listen or download Additional remarks (5 min 41 s - 5.5 MB) |
| October 31 | Graham Dorrington School of Engineering RMIT University Melbourne | Reconnaissance of Lunar and Martian Pit-voids: Pits on the Moon; sink holes on Earth; lava tubes and skylights; getting into lunar and martian tubes. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne)
Listen or download (11 min 49 s - 11.3 MB) |
| November 21 | Peter Nikoloff Nova Systems Adelaide Alice Gorman | Tracking space debris; 2010 agreement on space surveillance; ageing radars; how Australia could contribute to space surveillance; and keeping space safe.
Listen or download (4 min 02 s - 3.9 MB) |
| November 21 | Robert Norman RMIT Space Research Centre RMIT University Melbourne | The SRC at RMIT; building on Australian expertise to track and move orbital debris; the dangers of debris; types of satellites; the Kesler Syndrome; and RMIT's four research programmes. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (6 min 29 s - 6.2 MB) |
| November 21 | Gordon Frazer Reseach Leader Defence Science Technology Group Adelaide | Why space surveillance is necessary; China's 2009 antisatellite test; end of mission management; open skies policy; missile defence; treaty failure; future management of space; and warfare in space. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (11 min 19 s - 10.9 MB) |
| December 5 | Robert Norman RMIT Space Research Centre RMIT University, Melbourne | Using laser photon pressure to move orbital debris and so avoid collisions. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne)
* Listen or download photon pressure (0 min 33 s - 0.5 MB) * Listen or download collision avoidance (0 min 44 s - 0.7 MB) |
| December 5 | Gordon Frazer Reseach Leader Defence Science Technology Group Adelaide | Wide Field of View Sensing for Space Surveillance of Space. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne)
Listen or download (7 min 57 s - 7.6 MB) |
