| BROADCAST DATE |
SUBJECT | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| January 4 | SkyKraft | The launch this morning of five Australian aeronautical satellites called SkyKraft. (Inserts courtesy SpaceX, SkyKraft and SkyNews)
Listen or download (9 min 6 s - 8.7 MB) |
| January 4 | Moon music | Songs, both literal and allegorical, about the Moon. |
| January 11 | The Moons Symphony 1 | Australian composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg and astronaut Nicole Stott describe the genesis of The Moons Symphony; Miranda and Ganymede.
Listen or download (55 min 40 s - 53.4 MB) |
| January 18 | The Moons Symphony 2 | Australian composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg and planetary scientists Linda Spilker and Ashley Davis discuss The Moons Symphony and the moons Io and Titan. Also some related poetry.
Listen or download (54 min 27 s - 52.3 MB) |
| January 25 | Glyn Lehmann Composer Adelaide | His song cycle Space Race, what inspired it, and his collaboration with writer Phil Cummings.
Listen or download (21 min 17 s - 20.4 MB) Link to the SongLibrary Glyn's website |
| January 25 | The Moons Symphony 3 | Australian composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg and planetary scientists Linda Spilker and Mark Sephton discuss The Moons Symphony and the moons Europa and Enceladus. Also some related poetry.
Listen or download (29 min 46 s - 28.6 MB) |
| February 1 | Moons Symphony 4 | Discussion about the "Earth Moon" movement of The Moons Symphony, and poetry about our Moon.
Listen or download (39 min 25 s - 37.9 MB) |
| February 1 | STS 107 | Marking the 20th anniversary today of the final tragic flight of the space shuttle Columbia.
Listen or download (12 min 23 s - 11.9 MB) |
| February 8 | Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway Astrophysicist Monash University Clayton Antoinette Daily Amanda Caples Kerrie Dougherty Rose Tasker | Panel discussion on gender balance in the space industry; prospects for an Australian astronaut; long term industry planning; STEM and Tasmania; Australian Space Agency and Space Industry Assocation. (Recorded at Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge, Federation Square)
Listen or download Part 1 (14 min 26 s - 13.9 MB) Listen or download Part 2 (17 min 41 s - 17.0 MB) |
| February 15 | Columbia | In song and poetry the history of the first Space Shuttle, Columbia, from maiden flight (STS 1) to the final tragic flight (STS 107).
Listen or download (35 min 25 s - 34.0 MB) |
| February 15 | Malcolm Davis Senior Analyst Australian Strategic Policy Institute Canberra | China's Space Dream - what China is doing in space, and its objectives over the next decade. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, South Melbourne)
Listen or download (14 min 1 s - 13.5 MB) |
| February 22 | Telstar | Marking the 60th anniversary of the demise of Telstar 1 with a 1962 pre-launch talk by Jean Felkar (Assistant Chief Engineer, AT&T), and with some of the music celebrating this first active communications satellite.
Listen or download (54 min 8 s - 52.0 MB) |
| March 1 | IBEX | How the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, which orbits the Earth, has been able to measure energetic neutral atoms to reveal the variable nature of the boundary between our heliosphere and the interstellar medium.
Listen or download (8 min 8 s - 8.8 MB) |
| March 1 | Communications Satellite Market Trends | Some of the leading movers and shakers in the Australian satellite communications industry discuss where the market technology is headed. (Recorded Space Industry Association of Australia, South Melbourne)
Listen or download (12 min 35 s - 12.1 MB) |
| March 1 | Satellite communications | How Starlink, OneWeb, AST Space Mobile and SpaceBEE are changing the face of satellite communications with low-Earth orbit constellations of thousands of satellites. |
| March 8 | Australian Female Astronaut | The news that dual Australian-British Katherine Bennell-Pegg has been selected for astronaut training at the European Space Centre.
Listen or download (11 min 24 s - 10.9 MB) |
| March 8 | Kerrie Dougherty Management Team Member Space Discovery Centre Adelaide | Celebrating Women In Space - Portrayal in movies; use as computers; female animals; the Mercury 13; and Tereshkova. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, South Melbourne)
Listen or download (22 min 22 s - 21.4 MB) |
| March 8 | Mriya | The first anniversary of the destruction of the Antonov AN-225 aircraft marked in song. |
| March 15 | RocketLab to Establish an Australian subsidiary company. | Plans to take advantage of the new opportunities in civilian and military space activity. Also launch status reports on two Electron missions. |
| March 15 | SkyKraft | The mystery of the Australian SkyKraft satellites launched on January 3. Some reports are wrong. (Insert courtesy Space Discovery Centre)
Listen or download (5 min 32 s - 5.3 MB) |
| March 15 | Planet Earth 46 | The NASA Earth System Observatory; Tianhe 6A and 6B; CTIM 1, ICEYE; GeoCarb; Grace FO; Landslide Hazards; SWOT. (Inserts courtesy NASA HQ, ICEYE, USRA, JPL)
Listen or download (32 min 26 s - 31.1 MB) |
| March 22 | Australian Lunar Rover & National Indigenous Space Academy | Contracts awarded to two consortia to define and build a prototype lunar rover. NASA to sponsor up to five indigenous interns at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, after they have been prepared at Monash University.
Listen or download (7 min 25 s - 7.1 MB) |
| March 22 | Sandra Connelly Deputy Associate Administrator Science Mission Directorate NASA HQ Lori Glaze Sue Smrekar and others | From the 2023 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, reports on NASA's budget decisions, the status of planetary missions, and a vigorous discussion on matters arising.
Listen or download (24 min 54 s - 23.9 MB) |
| March 22 | Anita Parbhakar-Fox Senior Research fellow Geoenvironmental Studies University of Queensland Carlos Espejel Bohan Deng Daniel Ricardo | Discussion on Lunar Mining and Robotics - Part 1 (Recorded Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge, Federation Square)
Listen or download (15 min 55 s - 15.3 MB) |
| March 22 | Planet Earth 47 | The Surface Water Ocean Topography satellite.
Listen or download (4 min 59 s - 4.8 MB) |
| March 29 | Gamma Ray Burst 221009A | The strongest burst ever detected has been reported in the scientific literature. Comments were written by Eric Burns (Louisiana State University) and Francis Reddy (Goddard Space Flight Center).
Listen or download (12 min 37 s - 12.1 MB) |
| March 29 | Ed Husic Federal Science Minister Canberra | Comment about space industry funding. (Courtesy National Press Club)
Listen or download (3 min 18 s - 3.2 MB) |
| March 29 | Bill Nelson Administrator NASA | Artemis 2 Crew and desire for an Australian astronaut. (Courtesy National Press Club)
Listen or download (2 min 24 s - 2.3 MB) |
| March 29 | Joel Kearns Deputy Associate Administrator Exploration Division NASA HQ Washington, D.C. | The status of the Artemis and supporting missions lunar science projects.
Listen or download (10 min 29 s - 10.1 MB) |
| March 29 | Yuri Gagarin | Marking the 55th anniversary of the death of the first cosmonaut, using archival audio and song.
Listen or download (7 min 46 s - 7.5 MB) |
| March 29 | Ingenuity | The race between the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and the Mars 2020 Rover Perseverance to the top of an ancient river delta, and confirmation that two helicopters will be used to retrieve the rock samples collected by Perseverance.
Listen or download (16 min 11 s - 15.6 MB) |
| April 5 | Artemis 2 Crew | The announcement of the crew for the Artemis 2 circumlunar mission. (Inserts courtesy NASA, CSA)
Listen or download (52 min 41 s - 50.6 MB) |
| April 5 | Space Shuttle Challenger | Noting the 40th anniversary of STS 6, the maiden flight of the orbiter Challenger. Listen or download (3 min 54 s - 3.7 MB) |
| April 12 | Nick Lomb Astronomer & Author Melbourne | A discussion about solar eclipses, the 2023 April 20 Exmouth eclipse, the excitement of seeing a total eclipse, the 2028 July 22 eclipse in New South Wales, and the Nick Lomb and Tomer Stevenson's book Eclipse Chasers, published by CSIRO Publishing in Clayton South. Also some music and a poem.
Listen or download (32 min 33 s - 31.3 MB) Link to CSIRO Publishing |
| April 12 | JUICE | Preparations to launch tomorrow the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. (Insert courtesy ESA) |
| April 12 | Ingenuity and Descendants | As we await news of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter's 50th flight, a report on what has been achieved, and plans for the Mars Sample Return mission's use of helicopters. (Insert Courtesy JPL) |
| April 12 | Zhurong | Findings by the Zhurong rover about the subsurface of Mars. |
| April 12 | Panet Earth 48 | The launch on Good Friday of the Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution, or TEMPO, instrument as a piggyback payload aboard the Intelsat 40e communications satellite. (Incorrectly introduced as Episode 47)(Insert courtesy SpaceX)
Listen or download (6 min 55 s - 6.7 MB) |
| April 19 | Starship & Juice | The aborted attempt to launch Starship onto a near-orbital trajectory, and the successful launch on the penultimate Ariane 5 ECS of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. (Insert courtesy ESA)
Listen or download (12 min 5 s - 11.6 MB) |
| April 19 | Venus | SOFIA data shows no, or very little, phosphine on Venus, and Magellan radar data reinterpreted to show volcanic activity.
Listen or download (6 min 46 s - 6.5 MB) |
| April 19 | Ingenuity & Perseverance | The Mars Helicopter Ingenuity has made its 50th flight, while the Perseverance rover has cached some rock samples, and is following a river channel up out of Jezero Crater. (Insert courtesy LPI)
Listen or download (15 min 42 s - 15.1 MB) |
| April 19 | Planet Earth 49 | Rocket Lab to launch four TROPICS satellites; TEMPO is now in geostationary orbit.
Listen or download (7 min 24 s - 7.1 MB) |
| April 19 | Partial Solar Eclipse | How and where in Bentleigh to observe tomorrow's partial solar eclipse. |
| April 26 | Anita Parbhakar-Fox Senior Research fellow Geoenvironmental Studies University of Queensland Carlos Espejel Bohan Deng Daniel Ricardo | Discussion on Lunar Mining and Robotics - Part 2 (Recorded Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge, Federation Square)
Listen or download (16 min 44 s - 16.1 MB) |
| April 26 | Planet Earth 50 | SWOT and TEMPO (Inserts courtesy JPL, Smithsonian) |
| May 3 | Hakuto-R | The crash landing of the Hakuto-R spacercaft on the Moon's Lacus Somniorum.
Listen or download (26 min 42 s - 25.8 MB) |
| May 3 | Planet Earth 51 | About TEMPO (Troposheric Emissions Monotoring of Pollution) and SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography). (Inserts courtesy NASM, AGU, ESA, JPL)
Listen or download (29 min 13 s - 28.1 MB) |
| May 10 | Federal Budget 2023 | Last night's Federal Budget has made some cuts to the allocations for the Australian Space industry.
Listen or download (2 min 16 s - 2.2 MB) |
| May 10 | Planet Earth 52 | The TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats) satellites launched from New Zealand after a delay caused by an atmospheric river. (Inserts courtesy TV1, NewsHub, RocketLab)
Listen or download (11 min 55 s - 11.4 MB) |
| May 10 | Skylab 1 | Marking the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Skylab space station, detailing the realisation that there were serious problems. Comments (recorded at the Space Association of Australia, South Melbourne) by Skylab 2 astronaut Joe Kerwin. (Inserts courtesy JSC)
Listen or download (40 min 49 s - 39.2 MB) |
| May 17 | Katherine Bennell-Pegg Director Space Technology Australian Space Agency Adelaide introduction by | Innovation Lecture. Space as high ground; four segments of space industry; space and Australia; Space Agency roadmaps; Earth observation; access to space; exploration services; Trailblazer lunar rover; innovation cycle; workforce; and questions and answers. (Inserts courtesy Warren Centre)
Listen or download (53 min 18 s - 51.2 MB) |
| May 24 | Skylab 2 | The Skylab 2 mission was one of the great 'saves' of the space age. The story is told in mission audio and the words of astronaut Joe Kerwin (recorded at the Space Association of Australia, South Melbourne).
Listen or download (50 min 32 s - 48.5 MB) |
| May 31 | Rowen Christiansen Medical Educator Melbourne Medical School Melbourne Joe Kerwin | The challenges of clinical medicine in space. Preceeded by news that there are a record of 17 people orbiting the Earth, and comments by Skylab 2 astronaut Joe Kerwin, the second medical doctor to fly in space. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, South Melbourne, and Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge, Federation Square)
Listen or download (23 min 3 s - 22.1 MB) |
| May 31 | Planet Earth 53 | Tropics 3 & 4 Launch; RainCube; freshwater lakes dwindling; U.S. Space Council reports from USGS, NOAA and Dept. of Agriculture; and MARVEL. Listen or download (25 min 6 s - 24.1 MB) |
| June 7 | Carla Haden Librarian of Congress Washington, D.C. Ada Limón | A conversation about and reading of a poem to be placed aboard the Europa Clipper that will be sent to Jupiter. Also details of how you can send your name to Jupiter with that poem. (Insert courtesy NASA) Listen or download (12 min 49 s - 30.8 MB) |
| June 7 | Spirit - Part One | Marking the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and of the Mars Express in verse. (Insert courtesy ESA) Listen or download (43 min 47 s - 105.1 MB) |
| June 14 | Andrew Seedhouse Chief National Security and Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Defence Security and Technology | The Defence Science and Technology Roadmap. Accessing space; satellite technologies; assurance of access to space; satellite constellation options; space situational awareness; space cloud service; and the Roadmap. (Recorded Space Industry Association, South Melbourne) Listen or download (15 min 10 s - 14.6 MB) |
| June 14 | Spirit - Part 2 | Marking the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in verse and song. (Insert courtesy GSFC) Listen or download (30 min 30 s - 29.3 MB) |
| June 21 | Women In Space | Marking the 60th anniversary of Valentina Tereshkova's Vostok 6 flight and the 40th anniversary of Sally Ride's STS-6 mission, a celebration of several female astronauts in song. Also, a talk, recorded at the Space Asscociation of Australia, South Melbourne, by Kerrie Dougherty (Management Team Member, Space Discovery Centre, Adelaide) mentioning many other female astronauts. Listen or download full feature (44 min 55 s - 43.1 MB) Listen or download Dougherty talk only (14 min 5 s - 13.5 MB) |
| June 28 | Planet Earth 54 | Gamba grass and WorldView 3; UK Space Agency; New Zealand and Australian fire mapping; COVID and South-East Asian smoke; Thomas Pesque (ESA Astronaut) and climate research from the International Space Station; Canada's WildFireSat; crop monitoring during COVID 19; ERS 1; GPM 1; GLAM; contrails; and Landsat 1 and Virginia Norwood. Listen or download (53 min 52 s - 51.7 MB) |
| July 5 | Euclid | The purpose of the European Space Agency's Euclid mission, and the role of the Western Australian New Norcia Space Tracking Station. |
| July 5 | Opportunity - Part 1 | Marking the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Mars Explorations Rover Opportunity, the story of the first five years of the mission, as told in verse, song and narration. Listen or download (40 min 42 s - 39.1 MB) |
| July 12 | Opportunity - Part 2 | Marking the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Mars Explorations Rover Opportunity, the story of the first five years of the mission, as told in verse, song and narration. Listen or download (57 min 51 s - 55.5 MB) |
| July 19 | Chandrayaan 3 | The mission plan for India's Chandrayaan 3 lunar orbiter, lander and rover, followed by launch commentary from the launch site. Also report from Australia that the venting of the spent upper stage of the launch vehicle was seen. (Inserts courtesy ISRO, Ch9) |
| July 19 | James Webb Space Telescope | James Webb Space Telescope's first year of science discussion. (Courtesy GSFC) |
| July 19 | Eric Jones Editor Apollo Lunar Surface Journal Woodonga | A guide through the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, and how it was built up over many years. (Interviewer: Peter Aylward) Listen or download (12 min 12 s - 11.7 MB) |
| July 26 | Australian Space News | Moon-to-Mars Funding grants; Skykraft; Neumann Drive; Transporter 8; Space Inventor Edison; CyanoSat 1.0; and Space Machines. Listen or download (23 min 47 s - 22.8 MB) |
| July 26 | Stewart Gangell Member Space Association of Australia | Space Tourism. A recent visit to the Kennedy Space Center, its attractions and meeting astronauts; the American Space Museum in Titusville; Sands Space History Museum in Port Canaveral; and seeing SpaceX rocket and capsule. Listen or download (31 min 12 s - 30.0 MB) |
| August 2 | Planet Earth 55 | Acadia; plant efficiency; DSCOVR; GEDI; Ecostress; Landsat AI; Arctic Weather Satellie Mission; TEMPO; and EMIT. Listen or download (48 min 52 s - 46.9 MB) |
| August 9 | Aeolus Reentry | The assisted re-entry of the Aeolus wind measuring satellite; the Aeolus woodwind data sonation; Russia's skyshow over Melbourne (reentry of RD-0110 third stage of a Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat-M); ESA policy on debris mitigation (Holger Krag, Head, Space Safety Office, European Space Agency); and Australian and New Zealand debris finds. Listen or download (26 min 52 s - 25.8 MB) |
| August 9 | Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena | The testimony of David Grusch to the United States Congress on UAPs, their possible origin, a dozen retrieved crashed UAPs, and non-human biologics; Ryan Graves on a 100 yard square UAP allegedly seen at Vandenberg Air Force Base; and commentary by Andrew Rennie. Listen or download (21 min 33 s - 20.7 MB) |
| August 16 | Harrison Schmitt Geologist Apollo 17 | Recommendations on where Artemis should land, the science questions and priorities to be addressed, and the sample mix that should be collected. Listen or download (7 min 32 s - 7.2 MB) |
| August 16 | Naomi Mathers Space Industry Association of Australia Andrea Boyd Mike Thompson | Australia And Space. Will Australia build its own global positioning system; should Australia do niche projects or be a jack-of-all-trades; space science; space situational awareness; what caused the rapid growth in the space industry; defence uses of space; building things to leave Earth-orbit; will global players set up Australian branches; and the internet. (Recorded at Science Works Museum, Spotswood) Listen or download (22 min 13 s - 21.3 MB) |
| August 16 | Mars Observer | Marking the 30th anniversary of the explosion of the Mars Observer spacecraft as it was about to enter orbit about Mars. |
| August 23 | Australian Space News | Equatorial Launch Australia signs up Innospace; entX prototype radioisotope heater; Plants for Space; Neumann Space and CarbSAR; and Southern Launch planning permit for Koonibba. Listen or download (14 min 38 s - 14.1 MB) |
| August 23 | China Spies On Australia | Reports that China's Yaogan and Jilin satellites are 'spying' on Australian naval exercises; Malcolm Davis (Senior Analyst, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra) on Chinese space activities. (Inserts courtesy ABC; recorded Space Association of Australia, South Melbourne) Listen or download (16 min 49 s - 16.2 MB) Listen or download Malcolm Davis only (8 min 51 s - 8.5 MB) |
| August 23 | Luna 25 Failure | The Luna 25 mission joins a long list of failures in the Luna programme; some poetry about the Moon and Jodrell Bank. Listen or download (17 min 14 s - 16.6 MB) |
| August 23 | Voyager 2 | The saving of Voyager 2. Listen or download (5 min 38 s - 8.5 MB) |
| August 30 | Blue Moon | On the evening of a blue supermoon, a recounting of the landing of India's Vikram from the Chandrayaan 3 mission on the Southern Hemisphere of the Moon, the musical items performed at the launch of Luna 25, and some poetry and music. (Inserts courtesy ISRO, Roscosmos) Listen or download (41 min 37 s - 40.0 MB) |
| August 30 | NASA At Arnhem Space Centre 1 | The launch campaign for NASA sounding rockets at the Arnhem Space Centre, and a poem about exoplanet Proxima b. (Inserts courtesy GSFC) Listen or download (13 min 41 s - 13.1 MB) |
| September 6 | NASA At Arnhem Space Centre 2 | The launch campaign for NASA sounding rockets at the Arnhem Space Centre, and a poem about exoplanet Proxima b. (Inserts courtesy GSFC) Listen or download (20 min 23 s - 19.6 MB) |
| September 6 | Ashburton Space Balls | Remnants of Cosmos 482 (Venera 9a - 1972 023A) landed near Ashburton, in New Zealand's South Island. One is now on display in the Ashburton Aviation Museum. (Insert courtesy RNZ) Listen or download (14 min 51 s - 14.3 MB) Cosmos 482 Image 1 Cosmos 482 Image 2 Cosmos 482 Image 3 Cosmos 482 Image 4 Cosmos 482 Image 5 Cosmos 482 Image 6 Cosmos 482 Image 7 Cosmos 482 Image 8 Cosmos 482 Image 9 Cosmos 482 Image 10 |
| September 6 | Joe Kerwin Scientist-Astronaut Skylab 2 | Skylab 2 astronaut Joe Kerwin desribes the genesis of the Skylab project. Preceeded by a song used to wake up the Skylab 3 crew. (Interviewer Peter Aylward) Listen or download (17 min 52 s - 17.2 MB) |
| September 13 | Andrew Rennie Member Space Association of Australia | Lunar Orbit Rendezvous: The options for the Apollo lunar landing mode, and how the decision was reached. (Re-recorded from Space Association, South Melbourne) Listen or download (38 min 41s s - 37.1 MB) |
| September 13 | NASA At Arnhem Space Centre 3 | The culmination of the launch campaign for NASA sounding rockets at the Arnhem Space Centre (Inserts courtesy GSFC) Listen or download (13 min 12 s - 12.7 MB) |
| September 20 | Life on Exoplanet Kepler K2-18b? | Nikku Madhusudhan (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University) reports the discovery of methane, carbon dioxide and possible detection of biomarker dimethyl sulphide on an exoplanet, using the James Webb Space Telescope. (Insert courtesy STScI) Listen or download (10 min 17 s - 9.9 MB) |
| September 20 | OSIRIS-REx Journey's End | A summary of the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a smaple of asteroid Bennu, and plans for Sunday's landing in Utah. Also some songs about asteroids. (Insert courtesy GSFC) |
| September 20 | Hubble Tension | The age of the Universe is estimated by two main methods: Locally (Parallax-Cepeids-Supernovae-Redshift) and Cosmic Microwave Background (COBE, Planck). The problem is they give two measures for the Hubble Constant, and hence the age of the Universe. This feature looks back on COBE, and has a talk by Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess on his use of the James Webb Space Telescope to refine the measure of the Hubble Constant. (Inserts courtesy NASA, STScI) Listen or download (22 min 11 s - 23.1 MB) |
| September 20 | Trolls, UAPs and NASA | The internet trolls made NASA initially suppress the name of the director of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena research. (Insert courtesy NASA) Listen or download (15 min 52 s - 15.2 MB) |
| September 27 | Shuttle Return To Flight | The 35th anniversary of the STS 26 mission by the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery, the first since the STS 51-L Challenger disaster, told in music, poetry and word. (Inserts courtesy NASA) Listen or download (58 min 50 s - 56.5 MB) |
| October 4 | NASA's 65th Anniversary | Noting the anniversary of the formation of NASA, and the first decade of manned spaceflight (Mercury to Apollo 8), in spoken feature, poetry and song. Listen or download (49 min 53 s - 47.9 MB) |
| October 11 | Angelo Di Grazia Councillor Space Association of Australia Melbourne | The problems in launching the Artemis 1 circumlunar mission; the mission plan for the Artemis 3 human lunar landing; and the mission risks associated with the Starship architecture. Also some related music. Listen or download (40 min 57 s - 39.3 MB) |
| October 11 | Lindy Elkins-Tanton Pricipal Investigator Psyche Arizona State University | The scientific objectives of the Psyche mission to the asteroid 16 Psyche. |
| October 18 | Psyche Launched | The launch of the Psyche spacecraft, and how it will study asteroid 16 Psyche. (Inserts courtesy JPL) |
| October 18 | Walter Ciningham Apollo 7 Astronaut | The splashdown of the first manned Apollo mission 55 years ago. (Insert courtesy AAB) |
| October 18 | Gail Illes RMIT University Melbourne Andrea Boyd | Human Spaceflight in the age of private spaceflight; space beer from Australia; food; mental health; astronaut qualifications. (Recorded at Sienceworks, Spotswood) Listen or download (16 min 22 s - 15.7 MB) |
| October 18 | Mark Kirasich Deputy Associate Administrator Artemis Campaign Development Division NASA HQ Washington, D.C. Prasun Desai | The Artemis 3 mission plan; technology development; powering Artemis; contingencies. (Inserts courtesy NASA) |
| October 25 | Planet Earth 56 | Earth Information Center; COVID, cars and temperatures; Landsat observes Amazon deforestation; EMIT observes mineral dust; astronaut Nicole Stott observes thunderstorms; CALIPSO decommissioned; SuomiNPP and NOAA 20 observe "milky sea" bioluminescence; Gavin Schmidt (Director, Goddard Institute for Space Sciences) on the 2023 July Global Temperature Report; MAIA to be launched next year; PolSIR approved; "Flat Earth" satire; atmospheric ozone primer. (Inserts courtesy GSFC, NASA, AGU) Listen or download (52 min 36 s - 50.5 MB) |
| November 1 | Phoenix | Marking the 15th anniversary of the last contact with the Phoenix Mars Lander, the story of the mission told in spoken features and poetry. (Inserts courtesy CSA) Listen or download (46 min 36 s - 45.0 MB) |
| November 8 | Ken Mattingly | Noting the death of astronaut Ken Mattingly, who flew Apollo 16, STS 4 and STS 51-C. (Inserts courtesy AAB) Listen or download (10 min 10 s - 9.8 MB) |
| November 8 | Alan Stern Associate Vice president Space Science and Engineering Division Southwest Reasearch Instirute Boulder Colorado Michael Vincent | Answers to audience questions about the New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt object Arokoth. (Recorded at RMIT University, Melbourne) Listen or download (18 min 30 s - 17.8 MB) |
| November 8 | New Horizons | Plans for the New Horizons mission beyond Pluto and Arokoth as told in the writings of Alan Stern (Principal Investigator) and poets. Listen or download (26 min 0 s - 25.0 MB) |
| November 15 | Frank Borman | Noting the death of Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman. (Inserts courtesy NZBC and Andrew Rennie) Listen or download (14 min 22 s - 13.8 MB) The astronauts in Auckland Photographs taken by Andrew with an Agfa "Clack" camera using black&white 120 roll film, scanned from prints.
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| November 15 | Skylab 4 | Marking the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Skylab 4 mission through the recollections of astronuts Walter Cunningham and Joe Kerwin. (Inserts recorded by Peter Aylward, Space Association of Australia, Melbourne) Listen or download (40 min 54 s - 39.3 MB) |
| November 22 | Kennedy's Final Space Year | The public speeches United States President John Kennedy delivered and the private White House conversations reveal his conflicted attitude to space activity, particularly the Apollo manned lunar landing, during 1963 as he looked toward the 1964 Presidential election. Also some songs and poetry. (Inserts courtesy Kennedy Library) Listen or download (1 h 21 min 34 s - 78.3 MB) |
| November 29 | InSight | Noting the 5th anniversary of the landing of the InSIGHT spacecraft on Mars, with actuality, poetry and song. (Inserts courtesy BBC, DLR) |
| November 29 | Australian anniveraries. | With the launch of Melbourne University's SpIRIT satellite pending, a look back to the launch, 56 years ago, of Wresat and six years ago of Buccaneer, and of other Australian satellites. (Inserts courtesy DST) Listen or download (18 min 53 s - 18.1 MB) |
| December 6 | SpIRIT Launched | The Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal satellite, SpIRIT, launched for Melbourne Space Laboratory by a Falcon 9 rocket after pre-launch secrecy. (Inserts courtesy Melbourne University, SpaceX, Neumann Space) Listen or download (23 min 47 s - 22.8 MB) |
| December 6 | Resilient MultiMission Space Cancelled? | Reports that the Defence Science Technology Group's RMS satellites have been cancelled without public announcement after two satellite buses had been built. Rod Smith (Leader, Resilient Multi-mission Space STaR Shot, DST, Adelaide) explains the project's rationale. (Inserts courtesy Sky, DST) Listen or download (27 min 36 s - 26.5 MB) |
| December 6 | Mars Climate Orbiter | Noting the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Mars Climate Orbiter that crashed into Mars due to a navigation error. |
| December 13 | Kitty Hawk | Marking the 120th anniversary of the four flights by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk and how it led to today's aviation industry, and how parts of the Flyer went to the Moon and Mars. Told in song, poetry, diary entries and narration. Listen or download (26 min 36 s - 25.7 MB) |
| December 13 | Planet Earth 57 | How the European Space Agency is contributing to the Global Stocktake for the Paris Climate Accords meeting in Dubai. (Insert courtesy ESA) Listen or download (6 min 53 s - 6.6 MB) |
| December 13 | Skylab 4 | Skylab 2 astronaut Joe Kerwin sets the record straight on the so-called Skylab 4 'strike' that occured 50 years ago. (To be continued next week). (Insert recorded by Peter Aylward, Space Association of Australia) Listen or download (7 min 36 s - 7.3 MB) |
| December 20 | Planet Earth 58 | Launch of iQPS-SAR-5, otherwise known as Tsukuyomi 1, by an Electron rocket from New Zealand, to use a synthetic aperture radar to collect high-resolution images of the Earth. Listen or download (6 min 37 s - 6.4 MB) |
| December 20 | Skylab 4 | Continued from last week, how the three crewmen earned the one-aarmed paper-hanger's award, played midwife to some moths, and made observations of Comet Kohoutek and talked to Lubos Kohoutek. Listen or download (24 min 54 s - 23.9 MB) |
| December 20 | Apollo 8 | The outbound flight, lunar orbit and Christmas Day. The significance of the mission and profile of the crew. Listen or download (27 min 13 s - 26.1 MB) |
| December 27 | Apollo 8 | The return to Earth, President Johnson's remarks, and tributes in poetry and music. Listen or download (41 min 42 s - 40.0 MB) |
| December 27 | SLIM and Peregrine 1 | The arrival into lunar orbit of Japan's SLIM lunar lander, and a description of the instruments aboard Astrobotic's Peregrine 1 lunar lander that is due to be launched next month. (Insert courtesy NASA) |
