| BROADCAST DATE |
SUBJECT | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| January 1 | Comedy and music | Vintage space comedy and space songs. |
| January 8 | Perseverance and Percy | From NASA HQ, Bill Nelson (Administrator) and Nicky Fox (Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate) out line a new plan to retrieve the Mars surface samples collected by the Perseverance rover; and part one of a fictional musical about "Percy". (Inserts courtesy NASA) |
| January 15 | Blue Ghost | The launch this afternoon of Blue Ghost 1 and Hakuto R M2 towards the Moon, and a description of Blue Ghost 1's ten NASA experiments. Listen or download (36 min 18 s - 34.9 MB) |
| January 15 | Australian Space Industry 2025 Part 1 | The launch this morning of the Transporter 11 mission, carrying Australian satellites Centauri 7 and Centauri 8, and satellites carrying Australian parts. These included: Impulse 2 with a Holmes-007 camera from HEO Robotics; and Edison with Neuman Space's ND-50 second generation electric thruster. Also launched was the U.S. Varda's Winnebago 2 pharmaceutical manufacturing satellite, built by Rocket Lab, and which will be landed in Koonibba, South Australia. Listen or download (12 min 40 s - 12.2 MB) |
| January 22 | Australian Space Industry 2025 Part 2 | The Australian involvement in the Transporter 12 mission, including statements from Fleet Space, HEO Robotics, Impulse Space, Varda Space Industries and Dawn Aerospace. Listen or download (50 min 48 s - 48.8 MB) |
| January 29 | Perseverance and Percy | The Perseverance rover has left Jezero Crater and what the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is doing now it is unable to fly; and parts two and three of a fictional musical about "Percy". (Inserts courtesy AGU) |
| February 5 | Stellar Events | Coronal mass ejections and the SunRISE satellites; stellar flares seen by Fermi; novae and T Coronae Borealis; supernovae, SN1987a and Eta Carinae; SPHEREx; poems and songs. (Inserts courtesy GSFC, CXC) |
| February 12 | Astronomical Time Warp 1 | From our archive, some astronomical events both old and new. (Inserts courtesy GSFC, CXC, NASA and ESO) |
| February 19 | Astronomical Time Warp 2 | From our archive, some astronomical events both old and new. (Inserts courtesy GSFC, CXC, NASA and ESO) |
| February 26 | Athena | The Intuitive Machine's second lunar mission, Athena with a NASA PRIME-1 (a payload consisting of a drill and mass spectrometer), the Micro Nova Hopper "Gracie", Lunar Outpost's Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) and Dymon's Yaoki rover. (Insert courtesy NASA HQ) |
| February 26 | PUNCH | A briefing on the four Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere satellites. (Insert courtesy NASA HQ) |
| February 26 | Lunar Trailblazer | Bethany Ehlmann of Caltech describes the goals and objectives of the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft which aims to distinguish water types on the Moon. |
| February 26 | Blue Ghost | As Firefly's Blue Ghost nears it lunar landing, a progress report on the mission. (Inserts courtesy Firefly and NASA) |
| March 5 | Elaine Hyde | The suborbital spaceflight of Melbourne raised but now Florida resident Elaine Chia Hyde aboard the New Shepard 30 mission; biography, interviews and an analysis of comments posted on Channel 9's Instagram page. Listen or download (27 min 21 s - 26.3 MB) |
| March 5 | Australian Space Industry 2025 Part 3 | Neumann thruster successfully tested aboard the Edison satellite; Varda's Winnebago 2 parachutes into Koonibba; and the Transporter 11 mission with the Inovor built Buccaneer Main Mission satellite and the U.S. Turion Space Droid 02 satellite bearing two cameras from HEO Robotics has been postponed for several days. Listen or download (6 min 36 s - 6.3 MB) |
| March 5 | Changing the guard and language at NASA | NASA to "dominate" rather than "lead" in lunar space; Administrator change. Listen or download (7 min 53 s - 7.6 MB) |
| March 5 | PUNCH and SPHEREx | An overview of the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere satellites and the SPHEREx observatory. (Inserts courtesy GSFC and JPL) |
| March 12 | SPHEREx and PUNCH | The launch of the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere satellites and the SPHEREx observatory. Listen or download (2 min 24 s - 2.3 MB) |
| March 12 | Athena Crash | The crash landing of the Athena spacecraft on Mons Moutan in the South Polar region of the Moon, and the purpose of the Hopper Gracie and Trident drill. Listen or download (20 min 39 s - 19.8 MB) |
| March 12 | Lunar Trailblazer Lost | Bethany Ehlman (Principal Investigator, Caltech) describes the Lunar Trailblazer and a series of status reports following its loss of attitude control. Listen or download (13 min 38 s - 13.1 MB) |
| March 12 | Australian Space Industry 2025 Part 4 | Launch due for Buccaneer Main Mission for the Australian Defence Force; Droid 02 and LizzieSat 3 to carry HEO Robotics's cameras; Varda's Winnebago 3 to follow Winnebago 2 to land in the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. Listen or download (11 min 17 s - 10.8 MB) |
| March 19 | Blue Ghost Completes Mission | The successful conclusion of the Blue Ghost 1 lunar landing mission, with a description of the experiments carried. (Inserts courtesy NASA and Firefly) |
| March 19 | Athena Volatiles. | The objectives of the Volatile Contamination experiment on the failed Athena lunar lander. (Insert courtesy IM) |
| March 19 | Suni and Butch | Marking this morning's return of the Crew 9 Dragon with the Starliner Crew Flight Test crew, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, after nine mounths in orbit. |
| March 19 | Australian Space Industry 2025 Part 5 | The launch of Buccaneer Main Mission for the Australian Defence Force; Droid 02 and LizzieSat 3 carrying HEO Robotics's cameras; and Varda's Winnebago 3. Listen or download (8 min 28 s - 8.1 MB) |
| March 26 | Federal Budget 2025 - 2026 | Some space and astronomy aspects of yesterday's Australian Federal Budget. The feature included Professor Peter Quinn (Director, International Centre for Radio Astronomy research, Perth) answering questions about the Square Kilometre Array, and a feature on Landsat and Landsat Next. (Quinn recorded at Space Association meeting) Listen or download (17 min 49 s - 17.1 MB) |
| March 26 | Maria Xygkaki Senior Business Developer Saber Astronautics Adelaide | Discussion of a potential Australian astronaut programme with Axiom. (Recorded Space Association meeting) Listen or download (8 min 8 s - 7.8 MB) |
| March 26 | Australian Space Industry 2025 Part 6 | Warratah Seed 1 sucessfully completes six months in orbit; and a progress report on the ELO2 lunar rover Roo-ver. Listen or download (13 min 33 s - 13.0 MB) |
| March 26 | Planet Earth 65 | Season 6 of our Planet Earth series begins with a report from New Zealand on control of the MethaneSAT. Listen or download (12 min 14 s - 11.7 MB) |
| March 26 | Fram 2 | The pending launch of the Fram 2 polar orbiting mission with Australian Eric Philips as pilot. Listen or download (2 min 43 s - 2.6 MB) |
| April 2 | Fram 2 | Australian Eric Philips becomes the third Australian to orbit the Earth as a crew member of the Fram 2 polar orbiting space flight. Crew profiles, aim of the flight and plans to grow oyster mushrooms. (Inserts courtesy SpaceX) Listen or download (15 min 21 s - 14.7 MB) |
| April 2 | ISAR Spectrum | The German ISAR company's Spectrum rocket fails to reach orbit. |
| April 2 | Winnebago 2 | Varda Space's Winnebago 2 recovered from orbit at Koonibba. (Insert courtesy Varda, Rocket Lab and Southern Launch.) |
| April 9 | Wind Back Time | 60 years ago Early Bird 1 was launched and later used to relay television of the splashdown of Gemini 6; and in 1966 the Lambda 4S-1 was launched in failed attempt to launch Japan's first satellite. Listen or download (15 min 21 s - 14.7 MB) |
| April 9 | Dawn Aerospace Aurora | Joshua Rea (Business Development Manager, Dawn Aerospace, Christchurch) and Stefan Powell (CEO, Dawn Aerospace, Christchurch) describe their progress in developing a reuseable aerospace launch vehicle, Aurora. (Recorded Space Association of Australia, insert courtesy Stuff) Listen or download (15 min 21 s - 14.7 MB) |
| April 23 | Apollo 13 - Part One | Starting with some recordings off the Voice Of America, then our own chats with Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise, capsule communicator Joe Kerwin, Australian trackers Mike Dinn and John Saxon, and supplemented by two poems, the story of the return to Earth of the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft. (Interviewer Peter Aylward) Listen or download (52 min 54 s - 50.8 MB) Colin Mackellar's web pages about Apollo 13 on the Honeysuckle Creek tribute website. |
| April 30 | Apollo 13 - Part Two | Continuing with our own chats with Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise, capsule communicator Joe Kerwin, Australian trackers Mike Dinn and John Saxon, and supplemented by two poems and songs, the story of the successful return to Earth of the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft. (Interviewer Peter Aylward) Listen or download (36 min 6 s - 34.7 MB) Listen or download unbroadcast segment in which Gene Kranz describes reentry. (3 min 15 s - 3.1 MB) Colin Mackellar's web pages about Apollo 13 on the Honeysuckle Creek tribute website. |
| April 30 | Jared Isaacman | The U.S. President's nominee for the position of NASA Administrator makes his pitch to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transporation. Tomorrow we wil learn if the nomination is successful. (Insert courtesy U.S. Senate) |
| April 30 | Wind Back Time | The 55th anniversary of the launch by China of Dong Fang Hong 1, and reports from 2020 and 2025 of the completion of the BeiDou 3 navigation and positioning system. (Inserts courtesy CGTN) |
