| BROADCAST DATE |
SUBJECT | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| January 5 | Webb Update | The progress to unfold the James Webb Space Telescope. |
| January 5 | Galileo Galilei - Part One | In word and music, a biography of Galileo Galilei. Included in full the sentence of the 1633 Inquisition and Galileo's abjuration. |
| January 12 | Galileo Galilei - Part Two | In word and music, a profile of Galileo Galilei. Included Act One of a rock musical. |
| January 12 | Stephen Hawking | Marking the 80th anniversary of his birth, Hawking's rendition of The Galaxy Song. |
| January 19 | Galileo Galilei - Part Three | In word and music, a biography of Galileo Galilei. Included Act Two of a rock musical |
| January 26 | JWST at L2 | Yesterday morning, the James Webb Space Telescope entered orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point. (Insert courtesy GSFC) |
| January 26 | Apollo 1 | Noting the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire with a memorial song. |
| Janaury 26 | Chris Hadfield | The music and sayings of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. |
| February 2 | Upulie Divisekera Ph.D. Student Monash University Clayton | A new era of space exploration. Her career as a molecular biologist; growing up in the Shuttle era; planetary missions and humans to Mars; the International Space Station; things we might need to take from Earth; desire for more Australian research into human spaceflight; consideration of who gets access to space and who owns it; the need for an Australian space agency. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne.)
Listen or download main talk (12 min 57 s - 12.4 MB) Listen or download response to question (2 min 7 s - 2 MB) * Photo: Upululie Divisekera |
| February 2 | JWST Poetry | Two poems about the James Webb Space Telescope.
Listen or download (2 min 53 s - 2.8 MB) |
| February 2 | Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory | The Swift astronomy satellite is in safe mode because one of its six reaction wheels has stopped working. A report on a finding of a stellar flare, and a song about Swift. |
| February 2 | Planet Earth 29 | The Australian Earth Science Roadmap (Enrico Palermo, Head, Australian Space Agency, Adelaide); Towards the Earth System Observatory (Karen St. Germain, Director, Earth Science Division, NASA HQ, Washington, D.C.); Planet A (Cédric David, Supervisor, Water and Ecosystems Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena); and Global Temperatures 2021 (Gavin Schmidt, Cimate Scientist / Director, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Maryland). (Inserts courtesy ASA, AGU, GSFC)
Listen or download (24 min 31 s - 23.5 MB) |
| February 9 | China's Five Year Space Plan | Some of the features of the report on the past five year plan and the intentions for the next five years.
Listen or download (6 min 32 s - 6.3 MB) |
| February 9 | Steven Hobbs University of New South Wales Sydney | Hands Off Field Work: A comparison of human and robotic methods for gathering terrain data using structure from motion. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne.)
Listen or download (9 min 41 s - 9.3 MB) |
| February 9 | JWST Poetry | Two poems about the James Webb Space Telescope.
Listen or download (3 min 4 s - 2.9 MB) |
| February 9 | ESA Preview 2022 | A preview of the planned activies of the European Space Agency in 2022. (Courtesy ESA) |
| February 9 | Naveen Kodikara Ph.D. Student RMIT Universtity Melbourne | The efficacy of global ionospheric maps to improve the performance of precise point positioning.
Listen or download (4 min 5 s - 3.9 MB) |
| February 9 | Planet Earth 30 | Tropics, the "Time Resolved Observations of Precipiation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats", with an overview by William Blackwell (Principal Investigator, MIT Lincoln Laboratory). (Inserts courtesy AGU, GSFC)
Listen or download (12 min 35 s - 12.1 MB) |
| February 16 | John Glenn Part One | Celebrating the 60th annivesary of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission in which John Glenn orbited the Earth three times. Included songs, a documentary of the mission, Glenn's speech to Congress, an oral history recording, and a nod to his STS 95 mission in 1998.
Listen or download (54 min 40 s - 52.5 MB) |
| February 23 | John Glenn Part Two | A chat with Simon Banks (musician and composrer, Canberra) about HR Arts Factory's "Splashown John Glenn", which was released to mark the 60th anniversary of the Mercury-Atlas 6 flight. Included the radio edit and the full version of the song. Also an oral history recording in which Glenn remarks on the progress in telephony since his childhood and a recollection of Scott Parazynski, and a comedy skit and a song about Glenn.
Listen or download Simon Banks only (33 min 51 s - 32.5 MB) Listen or purchase "Splashdown John Glenn" on Bandcamp Read about "Splashdown John Glenn" on official website Listen or download full John Glenn feature (46 min 43 s - 44.9 MB) |
| February 23 | Siddharth Pandey Mars Society Australia University of New South Wales | An astrobiology expedition to Ladakh.
Listen or download (4 min 58 s - 4.8 MB) |
| March 2 | Australian astronaut? Get Real!! | An analysis of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's claim that: "we are an astronaut nation" and that his funding is "getting Australians BACK into space." Included a potted history of Australia's refusals of offers to fly Australians in space, either aboard the Space Shuttle or the Soyuz. Also a summary of ISS astronaut ages compared to South Australian Premier's push to get young people involved.
Listen or download (10 min 51 s - 10.4 MB) |
| March 2 | Poetry and music | Ukrainian song and poetry inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Listen or download (9 min 31 s - 9.1 MB) |
| March 2 | Suraj Bijjahalli Ph.D. Candidate RMIT University Melbourne | An augmentation system for navigation of reuseable space vehicles.
Listen or download (5 min 3 s - 4.9 MB) |
| March 2 | Belinda Nicholson Ph.D. Candidate University of Southern Queensland | Stars as proxies for studying the Sun's early history. (Recorded at 16th Australian Space Research Conference, Story Hall, RMIT University, Melbourne.)
Listen or download (13 min 1 s - 12.5 MB) |
| March 2 | Planet Earth 31 | Cartosat 2 mapping the planet; the Earth's core. (Inserts courtesy ISRO, SpacePlace) |
| March 9 | Andrew Sysouphat Principal Technologist BAE Systems Richmond NSW | Space Telescope Design: segmented folding mirrors; optical design;control system; cubesats research; aero engineer. Listen or download (5 min 58 s - 5.7 MB) |
| March 9 | Vasily Lobzin Space Weather Services Bureau of Meterology Haymarket Sydney | Automated solar flare prediction using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite. Listen or download (5 min 32 s - 5.3 MB) |
| March 9 | Kirco Arsov Space Weather Services Bureau of Meterology Haymarket Sydney | Space Weather Services: Ionosphere modelling as part of the Australian positioning system; requirement for both speed and accuracy; Geosciences Australia put plan into effect; incorporating different country's systems; determining the electron content of the ionosphere. Listen or download (8 min 56 s - 8.6 MB) |
| March 9 | Enrico Palermo Head Australian Space Agency Campbell Pegg | The plan to promote Australian industry involvement on the Artemis moon project with the Australian Services Rover. Listen or download (4 min 41 s - 4.5 MB) |
| March 9 | Carlos Espejel Mine Planner iSpace Luxembourg | A Business Case For Mining The Moon. Carlos' personal history; Cheng'e 4; NASA's Commercial to the Moon programme; Space IL; origin of iSpace; securing funding; precursor projects; rovers 2021; transport to the moon; refuelling at Lagrange; lunar rover; hiring staff. Listen or download (12 min 50 s - 8.6 MB) |
| March 9 | Peter Beck & Colleagues Rocket Lab | The second launch pad on the Mahia Peninsula. |
| March 9 | Planet Earth 32 | Rainbow Python, involving Spiral Blue of Sydney, Esper Satellite Imaging of Mulgrave and Optimus 1 satellite; Paulini celebrates planet Earth. Listen or download (8 min 0 s - 7.7 MB) |
| March 16 | Space Launch System Rollout Preview | From the Kenndy Space Center a media briefing to announce the rollout to the launch pad of the Space Launch System rocket to be used for the Artemis 1 mission. (Inserts courtesy KSC) |
| March 16 | James Webb Space Telescope | Poetry about the JWST Listen or download (8 min 0 s - 7.7 MB) |
| March 16 | Fergus Downey Ph.D. Candidate Space Science Technology Cetre Curtin University Western Australia | Binar 2 and Beyond.; Binar Prospector lunar spacecraft. (Recorded Space Association of Australia) Listen or download (5 min 36 s - 5.4 MB) |
| March 16 | Iver Cairns Professor CUAVA University of Sydney | The CUAVA 2/3 satellite (Courtesy CUAVA) Listen or download (9 min 1 s - 8.7 MB) |
| March 16 | Planet Earth 33 | Sea level rise predictions for 2050; Sea Level Monitoring software explained by Bob Hamlington (Lead, Sea Level Change Team, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena) Listen or download (7 min 45 s - 7.4 MB) |
| March 23 | Australian Defence Space Command Established | Some Australian space news, then Defence Minister Peter Dutton sets out the rationale for the Australian Defence Space Command. (Inserts courtesy ABC, SBS, Ch7, ADF) Listen or download (12 min 3 s - 11.6 MB) |
| March 23 | Ukraine and Space | Some of the impacts of the war in Ukraine, preceeded by a Ukrainian song. Listen or download (15 min 6 s - 14.5 MB) |
| March 23 | Space Launch System Rollout | NASA Administrator Bill Nelson's speech at the rollout to the launch pad of the Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis 1 fueling test. (Insert courtesy KSC) |
| March 23 | James Webb Space Telescope | Scott Acton (Wavefront Sensing and Controls Scientist, Space Telescope Institute, Baltimore) describes how the 18 primary mirrors of the telescope have been sucessfully aligned. (Insert courtesy STScI) |
| March 30 | Federal Budget 2022 | The space related parts of yesterday's Australian Federal Budget, and the numerous 'nfp' entries in the Budget Papers. Listen or download (9 min 33 s - 9.2 MB) |
| March 30 | Ukraine and Space | Angelo DiGrazia (Committee Member, Space Association of Australia) explains the affect of the war between Russia and Ukraine on the global space industry. Preceeded and followed by antiwar music. (Talk recorded at Space Association, South Melbourne) Listen or download (18 min 34 s - 9.2 MB) |
| March 30 | Ingenuity | The 21st and 22nd flight of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity. Listen or download (18 min 34 s - 9.2 MB) |
| March 30 | James Webb Space Telescope | Some poems about the JWST. Listen or download (2 min 28 s - 2.4 MB) |
| March 30 | Planet Earth 34 | Algal blooms; protecting Earth from dangers; INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts). (Inserts coutesy ESA) Listen or download (13 min 30 s - 13.3 MB) |
| March 30 | Space Launch System Wet Countdown Test | Janet Petro (Director, Kennedy Space Center), and other officials, on the preparation of the Space Launch System rocket for the Wet Countdown Test this Friday. |
| April 6 | Sustaining Lunar Development | NASA seeks new proposals for Human Lunar Landers for use beyond the Artemis 3 mission. Space Launch System Wet Countdown Test strikes problems. (Insert courtesy NASA) |
| April 6 | James Webb Space Telescope | Some poems about the JWST. Listen or download (2 min 0 s - 1.9 MB) |
| April 6 | Planet Earth 35 | Australian Space Agency signs on to CLAREO-PF (Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder) and contracts Gilmour Space Technologies and LatConnect 60 to build hyperspectral imaging satellites; Sea level rise and flooding (John Englander, Executive Director, Carribbean Center for Rising Seas) - tidal cycles, coastal erosion, periods of stability, tide guages and satellites, accelerating rise, importance of Greenland and Antarctica as origin, and designing for the future. (Insert courtesy CCRS) Listen or download (27 min 38 s - 26.5 MB) |
| April 13 | Malcolm Davis Senior Analyst Australian Strategic Policy Institute | The civilian and military allocations in the 2022 Federal Budget; the reasons why the Australian Defence Command was formed; the aims of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Listen or download (21 min 59 s - 21.1 MB) |
| April 13 | Planet Earth 36 | ICESat 2; Alex Gardiner (Glaciologist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena) on the cryosphere - past, present and future - and what NASA scientists are doing to study it using satellites and ground observations. (Inserts courtesy JPL, GSFC) Listen or download (33 min 58 s - 32.6 MB) |
| April 20 | Nothing So Hidden Part One | Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission in the words of John Young and Charlie Duke, as recorded by The Space Show.
* Listen or download (54 min 23 s - 52.2 MB) * Photo: Duke in Studio (5.9 MB) * Photo: Duke and Rennie (5.6 MB) * Photo: Moon model, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (6.4 MB) * Photo: F1 engine from Saturn 5 first stage, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (7.1 MB) * Photo: John Young's training spacesuit, Queensland Museum (5.9 MB) * Photo: John Young's training spacesuit, Queensland Museum (7.2 MB) * Photo: John Young's training spacesuit, Queensland Museum (7.1 MB) * Photo: Emergency Air Pack which would have been used in the event of an emergency on the launch pad, Queensland Museum (7.8 MB) * Photo: Emergency Air Pack which would have been used in the event of an emergency on the launch pad, Queensland Museum (7.2 MB) * Photo: lunar module interior model, Queensland Museum (6.4 MB) * Photo: lunar module window, Queensland Museum (5.7 MB) * Photo: leg of lunar module, Queensland Museum (7.5 MB) * Photo: lunar module footpad, Queensland Museum (6.4 MB) * Photo: lunar module footpad, Queensland Museum (7.4 MB) |
| April 27 | Nothing So Hidden Part Two | Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission in the words of John Young and Charlie Duke, as recorded by The Space Show.
* Listen or download (55 min 45 s - 53.5 MB) * Photo: Duke, Aylward and Rennie (5.7 MB) * Photo: prototype lunar module ascent engine, Queensland Museum (7.0 MB) * Photo: prototype lunar module ascent engine, Queensland Museum (7.3 MB) * Photo: Lunar Roving Vehicle, Queenland Museum (5.9 MB) * Photo: Lunar Roving Vehicle, Queenland Museum (5.9 MB) * Photo: Lunar Roving Vehicle, Queenland Museum (5.9 MB) |
| May 4 | Nothing So Hidden Part Three | Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission in the words of John Young and Charlie Duke, as recorded by The Space Show. Also: Chiara Ferraris-Wong (Graduate Student, University of Hawaii) reports anorthosite recently discovered near the Apollo 16 landing site and describes the HyTI hyperspectral thermal imager; the story of the command module Casper at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center; Eric Jones (Editor, Apollo Lunar Surface Journal) recounts the genesis of the Journal and how the interviews were conducted; and John Saxon gives an audio tour of the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station as it existed during the Apollo missions.
* Listen or download (57 min 33 s - 55.3 MB) * Listen or download Eric Jones interview by Peter Aylward (11 min 26 s - 11.0 MB) * Listen or download John Saxon talk (12 min 4 s - 11.6 MB) * Photo: John Saxon (left) and Hamish Lindsay at Honeysuckle Creek. * Photo: Tracking Apollo to the Moon Book dust jacket. * Photo: John Saxon and Hamish Lindsay at Honeysuckle Creek. Hamish points to himself at console, while John holds an album of memorabilia. * Photo: Ambassador and Mrs. Bleich with John Saxon. * Photo: Apollo survival kit to be used in event of an off-target splashdown on Earth (6.6 MB) * Photo: box used to bring lunar samples to Earth, Queenland Museum (7.2 MB) * Photo: Apollo 16 parachute, Queensland Museum (6.5 MB) * Photo: Apollo 16 parachute, Queensland Museum (6.3 MB) * Photo: Apollo 16 parachute, Queensland Museum (6.0 MB) * Photo: Apollo 16 parachute, Queensland Museum (5.7 MB) |
| May 11 | James Webb Space Telescope | Some poems about the JWST, and how the Gaia astrometry satellite has imaged the JWST. Listen or download (4 min 21 s - 4.2 MB) |
| May 11 | Planet Earth 37 | Aqua AIRS; COVID lockdowns affects atmosphere; OCO 2 and OCO 3; Gavin Schmidt (Acting Senior Climate Advisor, NASA); astronauts view Earth. (Inserts courtesy JPL, GSFC) Listen or download (31 min 47 s - 30.5 MB) |
| May 18 | Eurovision Song Contest 2022 | Samantha Christoforetti, Kalush Orchestra and Sam Ryder's Space Man. (Inserts Courtesy EBU) |
| May 18 | Sagitarius A* | The announcement of the imaging of the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. Speakers: Cassandra Eichner (National Science Foundation, Washington); Karen Marrongelle (Chief Operating Officer, National Science Foundation, Washington); Feryal Ozel (Professor Astronomy, University of Arizona); and Vincent Fish (MIT Haystack Observatory). (Courtesy NSF) |
| May 18 | James Webb Space Telescope | Some poems about the JWST. Listen or download (4 min 30 s - 4.3 MB) |
| May 18 | Planet Earth 38 | GOES 18, DSCOVR and Luca Parmitano. (Inserts courtesy ESA, NOAA)(Erronously introduced as Episode 37) Listen or download (14 min 33 s - 14.0 MB) |
| May 25 | Vale Vangelis | A tribute to Evangelos Papathanassiou, whose music has been used by The Space Show for 31 years. |
| May 25 | Alan Duffy Associate Professor Swinburne University of Technology Glenferrie Michael Pakakis Anna Moore Michael Smart Andy Koronios Jackie Carpenter | Future Space Industry Workforce: What Australian space workforce is required and how to develop it. (Recorded at Australian Space Industry Association, Melbourne) Listen or download (14 min 44 s - 14.1 MB) Developing The Future Space Industry Workforce: Industry involvement in education and the value of placement in industry. (Recorded at Australian Space Industry Association, Melbourne) |
| May 25 | James Webb Space Telescope | Some poems about the JWST and a description of the telescope's instruments. (Insert courtesy GSFC) Listen or download (5 min 14 s - 5.0 MB) |
| May 25 | Scott Carpenter and Mercury 7 | Marking the 60th anniversary of the second United States orbital human spaceflight, as told from the viewpoint of Donald Slayton. |
| May 25 | Lunar Plants | Anna-Lisa Paul describes how she grew plants in real samples of lunar regolith. (Insert courtesy NASA) |
| June 1 | Planet Earth 39 | Bushfire smoke detection from space; GOES 18; Deepest undeground life detected and its inplications for possible life on Mars. (Inserts courtesy GSFC, E&S) Listen or download (21 min 36 s - 20.8 MB) |
| June 1 | CAPSTONE | Briefing on the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, which is to be launched from New Zealand no earlier than June 13. (Insert courtesy NASA) |
| June 8 | Planet Earth 40 | Shoaib Iqbal (CEO, Esper Satellite Imagery, Mulgrave) describes his start-up company, the Over The Rainbow mission, hyperspectral imagers, his University activities, and the future plans for Esper. Listen or download (22 min 2 s - 21.2 MB) |
| June 8 | Troy McCann Moonshot X Melbourne | Entrepeneural Opportunities In Space. (Recorded at Lab 14, Carlton) Listen or download (14 min 4 s - 10.6 MB) |
| June 8 | CAPSTONE | A summary of the CAPSTONE mission, a comment by Jacinda Adern (Prime Minister, New Zealand) and a song. (Inserts courtesy NASA, Newshub) |
| June 8 | James Webb Space Telescope | First science images to be realeased July 12; poems; song. Listen or download (5 min 19 s - 5.1 MB) |
| June 8 | Roy McNeice Animator Lab 14 Carlton Connect Initiative Carlton | Motivating community engagement using space. (Recorded at Lab 14, Carlton) Listen or download (53 s - 0.8 MB) |
| June 15 | Lunar Orbit Rendezvous Decision | Marking the 60th anniversary of the 1962 June 7 Apollo mission mode decision. How the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous method won out over the Direct Ascent and Earth Orbit Assembly methods of travelling to the Moon.
* Listen or download (52 min 36 s - 50.5 MB) * View the 2019 PowerPoint Show version of this talk (No audio - 239.5 MB) |
| June 22 | Tim Parsons Co-founder delta-V new Space Alliance Troy McCann Carly Scott Jeremy Hallett Mark Ramsay | The role of small to medium enterprises in the growth of the Australian space industry. (Recorded SIAA, Melbourne Exhibition Centre) Listen or download (28 min 41 s - 33.1 MB) |
| June 22 | An Improbable Yarn | The story of how the song Fly Me To The Moon flew at least twice to the Moon, and the yarn that Buzz Aldrin told to Quincy Jones. Listen or download (9 min 43 s - 9.3 MB) |
| June 22 | Planet Earth 41 | The astronaut and the aquanaut. How Landsat 1 was used to do bathymetry of the shallow oceans. (Insert courtesy GSFC) |
| June 29 | Much-Ado-About-Very-Little | What was reported about the Black Brant 9 suborbital rocket launched from the Arnhem Space Centre was not necessarily so. (Inserts courtesy ELA, Sky, Ch9, ABC) Listen or download (17 min 18 s - 16.6 MB) |
| June 29 | CAPSTONE Launch | The launch of the CAPSTONE lunar orbiter from New Zealand. (Inserts courtesy Rocket Lab and NASA) Listen or download (10 min 41 s - 10.3 MB) |
| June 29 | Planet Earth 42 | NISAR, CYGNSS and TROPICS. (Inserts courtesy JPL) Listen or download (14 min 52 s - 14.2 MB) |
| July 6 | Telstar 1 | Marking the 60th anniversary of the launch of Telstar 1. Variants of Joe Meeks' tune; the Goonhilly Ground station; Robert Gough (Head of Business Development, Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd, Goonhilly Downs, Helston, Corwall); Early Bird; Muse. (Insert courtesy BT)
* Listen or download full programme (54 min 37 s - 52.4 MB) * Listen or download Robert Gough only (8 min 0 s - 7.7 MB) |
| July 13 | The Big Reveal | The public release of the first science images from the James Webb Space Telescope, with comments by Kamala Harris (Vice President, USA), Joe Biden (President, USA) and Bill Nelson (Administrator, NASA). Also, songs and poems. |
| July 13 | Psyche | The postponement of the launch of the Psyche mission to asteroid 16 Psyche, and details of the spacecraft and its mission. (Inserts courtesy JPL) |
| July 13 | Planet Earth 43 | CYGNSS, SMOS, Samantha Christophoretti and music. (Inserts courtesy ESA) Listen or download (13 min 19 s - 12.8 MB) |
| July 20 | Planet Earth 44 | Landsat and EMIT: This week is the 50th anniverary of the launch of Landsat 1 and the 40th anniversary of Landsat 4. A history of Landsat; a chat with David Hudson (Director of Satellite Programs, Satellite Land Imagery Collection, Geoscience Australia) about Australia and Landsat; Landsat 9; Jeff Masek (Project Scientist, Landsat 9); and EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation). (Inserts courtesy GSFC, JPL)
* Listen or download full feature(46 min 47 s - 44.9 MB) * Listen or download Hudson interview only (22 min 49 s - 21.9 MB) |
| July 27 | Space Industry Workforce Panel | Future Australian space industry issues in education discussion. (Recorded SIAA, Melbourne Exhibition Centre) Listen or download (12 min 12 s - 11.7 MB) Listen or download full discussion, including this part and previously broadcast parts. (34 min 31 s - 33.1 MB) |
| July 27 | Iver Cairns Professor ARC Training Centre for Cubesats, UAVs and their Applications University of Sydney Sydney | Future cubesats and CUAVA. (Recorded Space Association of Australia, South Melbourne) Listen or download (4 min 6 s - 3.9 MB) |
| July 27 | Psyche and JUICE | The the objectives and delay of the Psyche asteroid mission and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. (Inserts courtesy JPL and ESA) |
| August 3 | Curiosity's Decade - Part One | Marking the tenth anniversary of the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory in Gale Crater. Replay of events at the Victorian Space Science Education Centre in Strathmore, poetry and songs, and Part One of a JPL documentary about Curiosity.
Listen or download. (55 min 40 s - 53.4 MB) |
| August 10 | Henry Lourey & Daniel Ricardo Monash University Clayton | The Nova Rover for the University Rover Challenge. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne)
Listen or download (10 min 19 s - 9.9 MB) |
| August 10 | Curiosity's Decade - Part Two | Marking the tenth anniversary of the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory in Gale Crater. Poetry and songs, Part Two of a JPL documentary about Curiosity and Henry Lourey & Daniel Ricardo (Monash University, Clayton) describe their Nova Rover.
Listen or download. (56 min 0 s - 53.4 MB) |
| August 17 | Artemis 1 - Part 1 | What Artemis is;
Mike Sarafin (Artemis 1 Mission Manager, NASA HQ, Washington, D.C.) with mission summary and objectives; Bhavya Lal (Associate Administrator, Technology, Policy and Strategy, NASA HQ, Washington, D.C.) on Artemis 1 science; Gordon Cable (Specialist Aerospace Medicine, University of Adelaide) on biomedical aspects of lunar flight; NEA Scout; Pam Clark (Principal Investigator, Lunar Ice Cube, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena) on using Lunar Ice Cube satellite to look for evidence of water on the Moon; Craig Hardgrove (Luna-Hmap Principal Investigator, Arizona State University) on looking for hydrogen as an indicator of the presence of water; and Sarah Noble (Lead Lunar Scientist, Planetary Science Division, NASA HQ, Washington, D.C.) on the progess in lunar science. (Inserts courtesy NASA, JPL) Listen or download. (53 min 2 s - 50.9 MB) |
| August 17 | Gordon Cable Specialist Aerospace Medicine University of Adelaide | Biomedical challenges of deep space missions, such as radiation, partial gravity, bone and muscle atrophy, lunar dust and pressure transitions. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne) (N.B. included in the above recording.)
Listen or download (14 min 40 s - 14.1 MB) |
| August 24 | Artemis 1 - Part 2 | The cubesats.
Lunar science payloads (Jacob Bleacher, Chief Exploration Scientist, NASA HQ); LunaH-map (Craig Hardgrove, Principal Investigator, Arizona State University); LunIR (Joseph Shoer, Architect for Small Satellite Missions, Lockheed Martin); Lunar Ice Cube (Ben Malphrus, Principal Investigator); OMOTENASHI (Tatsuaki Hashimoto, Project Manager, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency); EQUULEUS (Ryu Funase, Project Manager, JAXA); Team Miles (Wesley Faler, Team Lead); NEA Scout (Julie Castill-Rogez, Principal Science Investigator, JPL and Les Johnson, Principal Technology Investigator, Marshall Space Flight Center); CuSP (Mihir Desai, Principal Investigator; Cubesat Solar Particles, Southwest Research Institute); and ArgoMoon (Rafaele Mugnuolo, Program Manager, Italian Space Agency). (Inserts courtesy NASA) Listen or download (56 min 0 s - 53.8 MB) |
| August 31 | Artemis 1 - Part 3 | The aborted countdown;
recovery plan (Mike Sarafin, Artemis 1 Mission Manager, NASA HQ); Helga and Zohar (Thomas Berger, Principal Investigator, MARE, German Aerospace Center and Ramona Gaza, MARE Science Team Lead, Johnson Space Center, Houston); AstroRad (Cherie Swartz, AstroRad Director, Stem Rad) Radiation effects on men and women (Ramona Gaza, MARE Science Team Lead, Johnson Space Center, Houston); Biosentinel and yeast (Sergio Santa Maria, Biosentinel Lead Scientist, Ames Research Center, Mountain View California); Manikin (Dustin Gohmet, Project Manager, Orion Crew Survival Systems, Johns Space Center, Houston); Alexa and CISCO (Rob Chambers, Director, Commercial Civil Space Strategy, Lockheed Martin); Emotional effects of going to the Moon (Omar Eduardo Rodriguez, Neuroradiology Registrar, Royal Melbourne Hospital). (Inserts courtesy NASA) Listen or download (56 min 05 s - 55.8 MB) |
| August 31 | Omar Eduardo Rodriguez Neuroradiology Registrar Royal Melbourne Hospital Melbourne | History of moon flights, emotions of going to the Moon, depression and living in confined space. Introduction by Marc Turblum. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne) (N.B. included in the above recording.)
Listen or download (10 min 53 s - 10.5 MB) |
| September 7 | Artemis 1 - Part 4 | Scrub of the second launch attempt; Angelo Di Grazia reports from the Kennedy Space Center; Quinlan Buchlak (Data Scientist, Space Medicine) describes a future trip to the Moon; Curiosity and Solar Orbiter; and music.
Listen or download (59 min 8 s - 56.8 MB) |
| September 7 | Angelo Di Grazia Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | The Space Launch System; what went wrong on the two launch attempts of Artemis 1; where to from here for Artemis 1; the flight termination system; personal impression of the SLS; and meeting NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. (N.B. included in the above Artemis 1 recording.)
Listen or download (21 min 33 s - 20.7 MB) Screen grabs off NASA TV of Angelo at KSC. Grab 1 Grab 2 Grab 3 Grab 4 Grab 5 |
| September 7 | Quinlan Buchlak Data Scientist Space Medicine | A future trip to the moon: training; launch; Orion spacecraft; radiation; Lunar Gateway; effects of microgravity; EVA; lunar habitat design and construction; transporting injured astronaut; lunar dust in eyes; surgical tools; and return to Earth. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne) (N.B. included in the above Artemis 1 recording.)
Listen or download (11 min 31 s - 11.1 MB) |
| September 14 | "We Choose To Go . . ." | From the stadium at Rice University, Houston, an event to mark the 60th anniversary of U.S. President John Kennedy's Moon speech. Bill Nelson (NASA Administrator); Brian Babin (Representative, Texas); Al Green (Representative, Texas); ISS astronauts; Jean-Loup Chrétien (French Astronaut); Shannon Walker (NASA astronaut); and Avalon Hogans (Youth Poet Laureate, Houston). (Inserts courtesy NASA) |
| September 14 | Artemis 1 - Part 5 | The revised plans for the launch of the Artemis 1. (Inserts courtesy NASA) |
| September 14 | DART nears impact. | Lindley Johnson (Planetary Protection Officer, NASA) and Nick Moskovitz (Planetary Astronomer, Lowell Observatory) describe the Double Asteroid Redirection Test and the LICIACube spacecraft as they close in on an impact with asteroid Diomorphus on 2022 September 27 (AEST). (Inserts courtesy NASA, TED) |
| September 14 | Voyager | Noting the 45th anniversary of the launch of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, with comments by Project Scientist Ed Stone and greetings messages from the Voyager Interstellar Record. |
| September 21 | Angelo Di Grazia Member Space Association Of Australia Melbourne | His visit to the U.S.A.; the Artemis 1 launch attempt; the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center; The American Space Museum; a helicopter flight over Port Canaveral and Merrit Island; Kamela Harris (Chair, U.S. National Space Council) on the commitment to Artemis, the ISS and commercial space stations; the Johnson Space Center; Boca Chica and Starship; and forthcoming Space Association meeting.
Listen or download (45 min 47 s - 44.0 MB) |
| September 21 | DART | The pending impact of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test with asteroid Dimorphos. (Insert courtesy JHU) |
| September 28 | DART | The approach to and impact with Dimorphos by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft. (Inserts courtesy JHU) |
| September 28 | Rocket Man | United States President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden welcome Sir Elton John to the White House, and John peforms "Rocket Man." (Courtesy TWH) |
| September 28 | Space Council | Kamala Harris (Chair, U.S. Space Council) and Monica Medina (Assistant Secretary, U.S. State Department) commit to not carry out direct ascent antisatellite tests; Jessica Rosenworcel (Chair, U.S. Federal Communication Comission) on proposal to legislate U.S. licensed low Earth orbit satellites to be de-orbited within five years, not the current 25 years; and Harris issues three directives to NASA and the Department of Transport. (Inserts courtesy TWH) |
| October 5 | ISS Science | A report to the U.S. Space Council on the science being done aboard the International Space Station. (Courtesy TWH) |
| October 5 | Changesite-(Y) | The discovery of a new mineral in the lunar samples brought to Earth by the Chang'e 5 mission. (Inserts courtesy CGTN) |
| October 5 | Magellan-Elcano Voyage 500th Anniversary | The Voyage begun by Ferdinand Magellan and completed by Sebastián Elcano, its relevance to modern spaceflight, and modern 'flat-earthers'. (Insert courtesy DW)
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| October 5 | InSight and Zhurong | The detection by the InSight lander of meteors in the atmosphere of Mars, and their subsequent crater forming impacts. The Zhurong rover used a ground penetrating radar to measure through the regolith of Utopia Planitia and determine the strata to a depth of 100 metres.
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| October 5 | Malcolm Davis Senior Analyst Australian Strategic Policy Institute Canberra | Potential for a lunar land grab conflict. (Recorded Space Association of Australia, South Melbourne)
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| October 12 | Kerrie Dougherty Space Historian former Curator PowerHouse Museum Sydney | What's Space Ever Done For Me? NASA innovations; communications satellites; first television broadcast out of Australia; Vietnam war television; globalisation of trade; distance education; telemedicine; global positioning system; and movie making. (Recorded Final Frontier Festival, Melbourne University)
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| October 12 | Sam Stranges Vocalist, Rythym Guitarist and Songwriter Lipstereo Melbourne | The song Little Spaceships and the photograph of the 1950 July 24 launch of Bumper 8 from Cape Canaveral.
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| October 12 | BlueWalker 3 | The BlueWalker 3 satellite due to unfurl to 64 square metres, and likely to become the brighter than Venus or Jupiter. (Insert courtesy AST SpaceMobile)
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| October 12 | DART Result | The Double Asteroid Redirection Test changed the orbital period of Dimorphos by 32 ± 2 minutes.
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| October 12 | NASA Cubesats | What a cubesat is, and some recent NASA cubesat missions.
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| October 12 | Hubble Reboost | The announcement of a study into whether a SpaceX Crew Dragon could be used to raise the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope. (Courtesy NASA) |
| October 19 | Sussan Ley Federal Shadow Minister Small and Family Business Australian Parliament | The space industry funding priorities of the former Liberal / National Government, and concerns that the Labour Government will not continue past initiatives, and the detrimental effect that would have on the fledgeling Australian space industry . Note to overseas listeners: To you a backflip is a backward somersault done in the air with the arms and legs stretched out straight. The backflipper ends up facing in the same direction as they began. See animation. When an Australian politician says "backflip" they mean 'reversed policy', 'policy U-turn' or 'about turn.' Listen or download (11 min 32 s - 11.1 MB) |
| October 19 | Jenny Mitchell Director Civil Space Policy Australian Space Agency introduced by Patrick Grave | Her first space awareness at seeing Comet Halley; careers opportunities; Australian Space Agency priorities; the $1.2 billion Earth Observation programme; the Arnhem Space Centre; space industry skills shortage; and training and workforce development. (Recorded Melbourne University)
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| October 19 | Malcolm Davis Senior Analyst Australian Strategic Policy Institute Canberra | Australian Strategic Space Policy. (Recorded Space Association of Australia, South Melbourne)
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| October 19 | Andrew Dempster Director Australian Centre For Space Engineering Research University of New South Wales Sydney introduced by Grace Lai | The Economy and Space 2.0. Australia lagging in space activities; the inadequacy of past government policy; the need for a space agency. (Recorded Lab 14, Carlton, 2017)
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| October 26 | Planet Earth 45 | The Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20 and JPSS. Inserts courtesy AGU, GSFC)
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| October 26 | Federal Budget 2022 October | An analysis of last night's Budget. |
| October 26 | Peter Moar La Trobe University Bundoora Mark Fittock Rebecca Allen Mathew Bricali | Victorian Space Opportunities. (Recorded at Engineers Australia, Melbourne)
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| November 2 | InSight Detects Crater Formation | How the InSight lander and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter combined to detect the origin of a new crater on Mars. Also the impending demise of InSight. (Inserts courtesy JPL)
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| November 9 | No Programme | No show this week due to an electric power failure in the district in which the studio is located. |
| November 16 | Artemis 1 and Apollo 4 | This afternoon's launch of the first Space Launch System rocket on the Artemis 1 lunar mission, and a look back 55 years and 1 week to the first Saturn 5 launch, Apollo 4. Also Lunar Flashlight due to launch on a mission to search for water ice on the Moon. (Inserts courtesy NASA, VOA)
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| November 23 | Aremis 1and the Cubesats | Artemis 1's Orion has rounded the Moon, and the sad story of the cubesats. In support of the Artemis Accords, Australia to host a research centre for Excellence In Plants for Space. (Inserts courtesy JSC, JPL, ASU)
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| November 2 and 30 | Voyager and Ed Stone | To mark the retirement of Ed Stone after 50 years as the Voyager Project Scientist, a review of the Voyager 1 and 2 missions, an interview by "The Space Show" with Ed, and some related poetry and music. (Inserts courtesy JPL)
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| November 30 | Artemis 1 and the Cubesats | The flight of Artemis 1, and reports on the fates of some of the ten cubesats. (Inserts courtesy JPL, SkyWatch, IPS6)
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| December 7 | Hakuto-R | The Japanese lunar lander Hakuto-R, the UAE rover Rashid and the supporting music of Sakanation.
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| December 7 | Artemis 1 and the Cubesats | Orion is on its way back to Earth; some of the biological experiments aboard; and an update on the fate of the Artemis 1 cubesats. (Inserts courtesy NASA)
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| December 7 | Apollo 17 - Part One | On the day of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17, the mission story in music, and in the words of Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. (Portions recorded in Frankston)
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| December 14 | Apollo 17 - Part Two | Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt describe their voyage to the Moon, and a discussion between Harrison Schmitt (ANGSA Principal Investigator), Charles Shearer (ANGSA Co-Lead, Research Scientist, University of New Mexico) and Clive Neal (Planetary Geology Researcher, University of Notre Dame). Also news of the Artemis 1 return to Earth and the launch of Hakuto-R and Lunar Flashlight. (Portions recorded in Frankston and Redback Brewery Hotel, North Melbourne; inserts courtesy LPI)
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| December 21 | Apollo 17 - Part Three | Jim Lovell, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt discuss their experiences in flying to the Moon. Also songs, a poem read by Schmitt, and other poems. (Insert courtesy Adler)
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| December 28 | Apollo 17 - Part Four | Roberta Flack's The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face used to wake Apollo 17 crew, plus some other Moon music.
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| December 28 | Danuri | How Korea's Danuri spacecraft took the scenic route to the Moon, broadcasting the BTS K-pop song Dynamite on the way, and arriving into lunar orbit on December 14.
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