| BROADCAST DATE |
LECTURER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| January 16 | Olivier Barnouin Co-investigator OSIRIS-REx | On the day of the arrival into orbit of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft around the asteroid Bennu, what is now known about this small asteroid. (Courtesy JHUAPL) |
| February 6 | Anthony Horton Australian Astronomical Observatory | The Australian Space Eye. A cubesat to study the history of galaxy formation. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (10 min 28 s - 10.1 MB) |
| February 6 | Nick Stacy Research leader Space Research Initiative Defence Science Technology Group | Pathfinder Missions for Australian Defence in the context of the Defence white paper and the Industry policy statement. N.B. This talk was given to the 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne, before the annoucement that Australia would form a Space Agency. Listen or download (10 min 55 s - 10.5 MB) |
| February 13 | Douglas Griffin Lead Australian Sace Research Centre University of New South Wales Canberra | A sustainable model for engineering Australian space flight programmes. Why he left Australia to work in Europe for 19 years, and why he returned. How the space industry is changing due to new developments, and how Australia can use these to advantage. (Recorded at the 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne.) Listen or download (29 min 9 s - 28.0 MB) |
| March 13 | Igor Rozenberg Member Space Association of Australia | New manned spacecraft, the Federation, to replace the 50 year old Soyuz. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Elsternwick) Listen or download (2 min 10 s - 2.1 MB) |
| March 13 | Eriita Jones Lecturer Division of IT, Engineering and the Environment University of South Australia Adelaide | Holistic Methodologies In The Search for Subsurace Water on Mars and Other Planets. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (30 min 38 s - 24.9 MB) |
| March 20 | Ian Whitchurch Neumann Space Systems Brampton Adelaide | The Barsoom Express. How to use a Neumann drive to travel from Earth orbit to Mars orbit in three months by solar electric propulsion. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (19 min 50 s - 19.0 MB) |
| March 29 | Mike Pence Vice President United States of America Washington D.C. | The speech in which he announced President Trump's directive to NASA to land humans on the south pole of the Moon within five years. Also NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein's response. (Audio courtesy MSFC) |
| April 3 | Tracey Sletten Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences Monash University Clayton | Circadian misalignment and sleep disruption during long-term analog space missions. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (19 min 9 s - 18.4 MB) |
| April 3 | Jim Bridenstein Administrator NASA Washington, D.C. | The NASA 2020 Budget request for Mars exploration. (Audio courtesy KSC) |
| May 1 | Karen Andrews Minister Industry, Science and Technology Australian Federal Government Canberra | The Australian space industry. (Recorded at Australian Space Industry Association, Melbourne)
Listen or download (2 min 19 s - 2.2 MB) |
| May 1 | Anthony Murfett Deputy Head Australian Space Agency Adelaide | The Australian Space Agency; its logo; purpose; what it has done in past six months; its roles both domesticly and internationaly. (Recorded at Australian Space Industry Association, Melbourne)
Listen or download (20 min 57 s - 20.1 MB) |
| May 15 | Peter Moar Engineering Department La Trobe University Bundoora | Fire detecting satellites (Recorded at Engineers Australia)
Listen or download (1 min 36 s - 1.6 MB) |
| May 15 | Gary Quinn Chief Engineer ES and S Richmond | Career starting at CSIRO; satellite receiving systems; fire monitoring. (Recorded at Engineers Australia)
Listen or download (6 min 11 s - 6.0 MB) |
| May 15 | Amanda Caples Lead Scientist Victorian Government | Australian Space Agency; Victoria's advantages; use of Hawaiian telescopes; DESIS and new agreement; advanced manuafacturing; the Nova rover; Melbourne Space Program. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Federation Square)
Listen or download (10 min 8 s - 9.7 MB) |
| May 22 | Robert Norman RMIT Space Research Centre RMIT University Melbourne | The origins of the RMIT Space Research Centre; funding; goals; consortium members; and projects. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (4 min 34 s - 4.4 MB) |
| June 5 | Michael Vincent Payload Systems Engineer New Horizons | How he got involved in the New Horizons mission; the instruments on the spacecraft; how the Deep Space Network tracking station at Tidbinbilla was crucial in the radio science experiment that measured the atmosphere of Pluto. N.B. Audio not optimal because speaker did not use lapel microphone. (Recorded at RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (12 min 28 s - 12.0 MB) |
| June 5 | Naomi Mathers Space Industry Association Canberra Andrea Boyd Mike Thompson | The new Australian Space Agency and why have one; Australia's long involvement in space; shifting from government to industry led model for space activity; and space education and motivation. (Recorded at Science Works Museum, Spotswood) Listen or download (13 min 12 s - 12.7 MB) |
| June 12 | Alice Gorman Archaeologist Flinders University Adelaide | How heritage sites on the Moon might be preserved. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge) * Listen or download (19 min 53 s - 19.1 MB) * Image of Alice Gorman |
| June 19 | Alan Stern Principal Investigatot New Horizons Southwest Research Institute Boulder Colorado | The objectives of the New Horizons team as the spacecraft heads on out into the Kuiper Belt. (Courtesy SwRI) |
| June 19 | Robert Pike Pro-Vice Chancellor College of Science, Health and Engineering La Trobe University Bundoora Peter Moar | University space and other projects. Speaking on the eve of the launch of a hyperspectral camera called DESIS - the DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer. (Recorded at Engineers Australia)
Listen or download (5 min 42 s - 5.5 MB) |
| June 26 | Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway Astronomer Monash University Clayton | The origin of the Moon; the song Sleeping Satellite by Tasmin Archer to give an insight into the failure to not follow-up on the Apollo missions. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge)
* Listen or download (12 min 58 s - 12.5 MB) * Image of Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway |
| June 26 | Helen Brand Beam Line Scientist Australian Synchrotro Clayton | Her work as a geologist; the geology of the Moon; resources on the Moon. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge)
Listen or download (10 min 52 s - 10.4 MB) |
| July 3 | Cara Wiseman Office of Victorian Government Architects Melbourne | Lessons learnt from colonisation on Earth and how they might be applied to the Moon. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge)
Listen or download (6 min 55 s - 6.6 MB) |
| July 10 | Carlos Espejel Mine Planner iSpace Luxembourg | A self introduction; lunar resource utilisation. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge)
Listen or download (13 min 9 s - 12.6 MB) |
| July 17 | Bohan Deng CEO Spherospace Sydney | Why Mine The Moon? The Lunat X-Prize; lunar resources and how they could be processed; valuable products; the convergence between industrial and government space activities; recent enabling technology; the use of cis-lunar space; economic impacts predicted; human settlement of the Moon. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge)
Listen or download (10 min 8 s - 9.7 MB) |
| July 17 | Mike Collins Command Module Pilot Apollo 11 | His thoughts on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, and his role in it. (Courtesy NASM) |
| August 7 | Peter Beck Chief Engineer Rocket Lab Auckland | Announcing that Rocket Lab has a project to recover for re-use the first stage of the Electron Rocket. (Courtesy Rocket Lab) |
| August 7 | Eugene Kranz Aerospace Engineer / Mission Controller Houston Texas | An autobiography. (Courtesy NASM) |
| August 14 | David Williams Executive Director Digital, National Facilities and Collections Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation former Chief Executive | CSIRO and the Australian Space Industry: Training and mentoring; getting science out into the community; what CSIRO can do to help industry; Lab 22 3D printing; sensor development; farming and water monitoring; remote handling of cattle; lunar base and Australia's experience in remote mining. (Recorded at Australian Space Industry Association, Melbourne)
Listen or download (9 min 57 s - 9.6 MB) |
| August 14 | Alan Duffy Associate Professor Swinburne University of Technology Hawthorn | An Overview of Australian Space Research and Development - what astronomers can contribute. (Recorded at Australian Space Industry Association, Melbourne)
Listen or download (12 min 55 s - 12.4 MB) Photo of Alan Duffy |
| August 21 | Eugene Kranz Aerospace Engineer / Mission Controller Houston Texas | An autobiographical account of the Apollo 11 mission as experienced in the Mission Control Room of the Manned Spacecraft Center. (Courtesy NASM) |
| August 28 | Arden Albee Planetary Geologist | What we learned of the Moon from the Apollo missions. (Courtesy JPL) |
| August 28 | John Cassani Scientist Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena | How it was considered to send dogs to the Moon ahead of the manned Apollo missions. (Courtesy JPL) |
| September 11 | Igor Rozenberg Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Vostochny Cosmodrome. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Elsternwick) Listen or download (19 min 26 s - 2.1 MB) |
| September 18 | Tim Parsons Co-founder X-Lab Melbourne | Should Australia develop a domestic space launch capability? (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Elsternwick) Listen or download (1 min 23 s - 1.3 MB) |
| October 2 | John Le Marshall Senior Principal Research Scientist Bureau of Meteorology Melbourne | How Earth observations from space are factored into preparing Australian waether forecasts. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (9 min 36 s - 9.2 MB) |
| Not broadcast | John Le Marshall Senior Principal Research Scientist Bureau of Meteorology Melbourne | Earth observation and Australian bureaucracy. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (7 min 27 s - 7.2 MB) |
| October 9 | Russell Boyce Chairman National Committee for Space and Radio Science Australian Academy of Scienceb Canberra | Outreach and STEM (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (1 min 47 s - 1.7 MB) |
| October 9 | Andrea Boyd International Space Station Flight Controller European Space Agency Gail Isles | Human Space Flight. Career paths; the Lunar Orbital Platform; Mars step-by-step; uses of lunar regolith; health effects of space flight. Moderated by Kate Bsrnard of Museums Victoria. (Recorded at Science Works Museum, Spotswood)
Listen or download (13 min 5 s - 12.6 MB) |
| October 16 | Alexey Leonov Cosmosnaut USSR | Alexey Leonov describes his spacewalk during the Voskhod 2 mission. Broadcast to mark his death.
Listen or download (23 min 20 s - 22.4 MB) |
| October 16 | Nobel Prize Committee Swedish Academy of Sciences Stockholm Sweden | The announcement of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. (Courtesy Nobel Prize Committee) |
| October 16 | James Peebles Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus Princeton University New Jersey | His autobiography, his work in cosmology, and reaction to winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. (Courtesy Princeton University) |
| October 23 | Adena Silverstein Psychologist Sydney | Using psychology select out astronaut candidates. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Elsternwick)
Listen or download (0 min 43 s - 0.7 MB) |
| October 23 | Rowena Christiansen The Melbourne Medical School University of Melbourne Melbourne | Human Research Roadmap - The 33 Key Issues for Human Health and performance in Space. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (14 min 5 s - 13.5 MB) |
| November 6 | Brian Schmidt Vice Chancellor Australian National University Canberra Karen Andrews Anna Moore James Carouso Valentin Merino Villeneuve Daniel Shaddock | The launch of the Australian National university's "InSpace" initiative. Preparations to analyse samples from the Hayabusa 2 mission to asteroid Ryugu. Laser on the Grace Follow-on satellites. (Inserts courtesy ANU) Listen or download (20 min 18 s - 19.5 MB) |
| December 18 | David Williams Executive Director Digital, National Facilities and Collections CSIRO former Chief Executive | The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's space roadmap is described. (Recorded at Australian Space Industry Association, Melbourne)
Listen or download (8 min 33 s - 8.2 MB) |
