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| BROADCAST DATE | GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| January 12 | Kate Doolan Freelance Journalist Melbourne | American Space Activities |
| January 19 | Simon Johnson Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics University of Sydney Sydney | An unusual pulsar - a millisecond pulsar seen from Parkes. Listen or download interview (7 min 1 s - 6.5 MB) |
| January 26 | Richard Tonkin Aerospace Ambassadors Melbourne | To mark Australia day, a discussion of Australian space activities. |
| February 2 | Mike Roach Vice President South Australian Science Teachers' Association Adelaide | International Space Camp held in Huntsville, Alabamba. |
| February 9 | Bruce Middleton former Executive Director Australian Space Office Canberra | Australian space instrumentation, including the Along Track Scanning Radiometers flown aboard the European Resources Satellites. Listen or download interview and introduction (8 min 36 s - 8.0 MB) |
| February 16 | Guillermo Lemarchand Physicist University of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires | The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the procedures for notifying the public if signals received. Listen or download interview (5 min 13 s - 4.8 MB) |
| February 16 | Ian Bryce Australian Space Research Institute Sydney | Eighth National Space Engineering Symposium - developments in rocketry. Listen or Download (9 min 2 s - 8.4 MB) |
| February 23 | Nick Lomb Curator Astronomy Sydney Observatory Sydney | Displays at the Sydney Observatory. Listen or Download (8 min 28 s - 7.9 MB) |
| March 23 | Thierry Phulpin Engineer CNES France | Use of AVHRR to determine sea surface temperature, monitor global vegetation. Vegetation monitor to fly on Spot 4 satellite. Listen or download interview (16 min 33 s -15.5 MB) |
| March 30 | Bruce Middleton former Executive Director Australian Space Office Canberra | Remote sensing - Australian involvement in ERS 1, ground stations. How to make data more available. Listen or download interview and introduction (6 min 10 s - 5.7 MB) |
| March 30 | Tom Delaney Litton Itek Optical Systems Lexington Massachusettes | Liason between Litton, Orbital Sciences and GDE Systems in planning the Eyeglass remote sensing satellite. Listen or download interview (11 min 59 s -11.2 MB) |
| April 6 | Michael Aubrey Managing Director Technical and Field Surveys Sydney | Government policy in the space arena, and ideas on how Australia might position itself in Earth observation. Listen or download interview (6 min 0 s -5.8 MB) |
| April 6 | Ian Bryce Australian Space Research Institute Sydney | Radar surveillance satellite proposed for Australia. Listen or Download (9 min 53 s - 9.2 MB) |
| April 6 | Alex Wylie Scientific Research Officer Remote Sensing Applications Centre Department of Land Administration Perth. | Using remote sensing satellites to plan and monitor the rehabilitation of the Montebello Islands after the nuclear weapons tersting and oil spills. Listen or download interview and introduction (7 min 39 s - 7.0 MB) |
| April 13 | Greg Ellevson Manager Corporate Communications Optus Communicatrions Sydney | Optus Mobilesat service via the Optus B satellites. Listen or download interview and introduction (7 min 3 s - 6.6 MB) |
| April 20 | Michael Aubrey Managing Director Technical and Field Surveys Sydney | Company projects, both in Australia and overseas. Aerial photography to Landsat. Environmental policy and the Rio Accord. Differences between French, American and Russian satellite data. Listen or download interview (9 min 26 s - 9.1 MB) |
| May 11 | Miss Wa Director Civil Programmes Operations Department China Aerospace Corporation Beijing | Start of China's space programme, communications satellites, recoverable satellites, heat shield not oak, animal in space, manned project, visiting China's space centres. Listen or download interview (16 min 10 s - 15.1 MB) |
| May 25 | Bruce Middleton former Executive Director Australian Space Office Canberra | Air Navigation and Space Funding, and possible Australian involvement. Listen or download interview and introduction - two minutes missing due to accidental erasure (7 min 38 s - 7.1 MB) |
| June 1 | John Lewis Space Services Department Radio Communication Bureau International Telecommunications Union Geneva | Allocation of position and frequencies to geostationary communications satellites. Listen or Download (8 min 3 s - 7.5 MB) |
| June 1 | Alex Wylie Scientific Research Officer Remote Sensing Applications Centre Department of Land Administration Perth. | Aircraft scanner for habitat mapping. Listen or download interview and introduction (2 min 54 s - 2.6 MB) |
| June 1 | Jim Davies Lewin Centre for Earth Observing Technologies Perth | The SeaWiFS sensor and its capabilities to map chlorophyll. Listen or Download (12 min 51 s - 12.0 MB) |
| June 22 | Duncan Steel Astronomer Anglo-Australian Observatory and Adelaide University Adelaide | Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 and his relationship with the Shoemakers and David Levy. Listen or download interview (10 min 55 s - 10.3 MB) |
| June 29 | Lister Staveley-Smith Astronomer Australia Telescope National Facility Ryde Sydney | Supernova 1987a and ongoing research about it. Listen or download interview (7 min 38 s - 7.1 MB) |
| June 29 | Duncan Steel Astronomer Anglo-Australian Observatory and Adelaide University Adelaide | Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9: discovery, naming, impact with Jupiter. Listen or download interview (14 min 41 s - 12.8 MB) |
| July 6 | John Lewis Space Services Department Radio Communication Bureau International Telecommunications Union Geneva | Getting agreement to locate a communications satellite in geostationary orbit. The Olympus 1 incident. Disagreement between Asiasat and Thaicom, and between Tongasat and Palapa Pacific 1. Listen or Download (9 min 43 s - 9.1 MB) |
| July 6 | Duncan Steel Astronomer Anglo-Australian Observatory and Adelaide University Adelaide | Professional observations planned of Comet Shoemaker-Levy -9. Listen or download interview (10 min 53 s - 10.2 MB) |
| July 13 (repeat of 1993 Oct 27 interview) | Ron Eckers Director Australia Telescope National Facility David Allen | Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 Listen or download interview (9 min 14 s - 8.6 MB) |
| July 20 | Wendy Whiting Mission Director Kuiper Airborne Observatory USA | The Kuiper Airborne Observatory, the reason for its visit to Melbourne to observe Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9, and her job as mission director. |
| July 20 | Richard Tonkin Aerospace Ambassadors Melbourne | Memories of the Apollo days. |
| August 17 | Ian Bryce Australian Space Research Institute Sydney | Eighth National Space Engineering Symposium - developments in Australian satellites. Listen or Download (4 min 54 s - 4.5 MB) |
| August 17 | Ron Cross Sat-track Australia Freemantle | The Global Positioning System and products being developed to use it. Listen or Download (16 min 43 s - 15.6 MB) |
| August 31 | Sue Flannigan United Kingdom Fellow Association for Science Educatgion United Kingdom | Ideas on exchange of space education between teachers in United Kingdom and Australia. Related experiences at a Science Teacher Workshop at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. |
| September 14 | Johnathan Nally Editor Sky and Space Magazine Sydney | The Sun, and the study of it from Australia, around the world and by satellite. Listen or Download (9 min 19 s - 8.6 MB) |
| September 21 | Carl Meade NASA Astronaut Houston | Experiences as astronaut, training and flights. Why he chose to be mission specialist rather than pilot. Listen or Download (5 min 20 s - 5.0 MB) |
| October 5 | Steve Saunders Magellan Project Scientist Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena | Exploration of Venus by Magellan spacecraft, and what was discovered. Listen or Download (14 min 51 s - 13.9 MB) |
| October 12 | Carol Tempel Coordinator Maths, Science and Technology Charleston County School District Charleston South Carolina | Student experiments on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. Student payload on STS 57. |
| October 12 | Steve Saunders Magellan Project Scientist Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena | Further discussion of the Magellan spacecraft and its discoveries. The cancelled VOIR mission. Radar mapping and altimetry. Listen or Download (9 min 38 s - 9.0 MB) |
| October 19 | Alex Foley and Lucinda Kimpton Students St Catherines School Toorak Melbourne | Impressions after meeting NASA Astronaut Rhea Seddon. Listen or download interview (1 min 48 s - 1.7 MB) |
| October 26 | Rhea Seddon NASA Astronaut Houston | Toys In Space. Recorded at Teacher Seminar, Toorak. Listen or download interview (1 min 24 s - 1.3 MB) |
| October 26 | Jim Gower Institutge of Ocean Sciences Sydney Canada | Methods of studying the Pacific Ocean level from space, the GEOS satellite, radar altimetry, reasons for irregularities in sea level. Listen or Download (9 min 33 s - 8.9 MB) |
| November 2 | Taso Tuzioumif Research Scientist Australia Telescope National Facility Ryde Sydney | Active galaxies, black holes, Centaurus A, Australia Telescope. Listen or download interview (10 min 15 s - 9.6 MB) |
| December 7 | Martin Platt Project Leader Clouds and Radiation Project Division of Atmospheric Physics CSIRO Aspendale | Lidar, the Lidar In Space Technology Experiment (LITE), flight experiment on Space Shuttle, results, including pass over Melbourne. Listen or download interview (21 min 29 s - 20.1 MB) |
| December 14 | Dean Graetz Ecologist Division of Wildlife and Ecology CSIRO | The Book "Looking Back Australia: what book is about, CD_ROM, positive and negative trends in landcare, cities seen from space, availability of book and CD_ROM. Listen or download (14 min 52 s - 13.9 MB) |
| December 14 | Nick Lomb Curator Astronomy Sydney Observatory Sydney | Instrumentation at Sydney Observatory, educational activities. Listen or Download (8 min 15 s - 7.7 MB) |
| December 21 | John Lewis Space Services Department Radio Communication Bureau International Telecommunications Union Geneva | His career starting in Melbourne leading to work with the ITU in Geneva. Drafting regulations at the ITU. Listen or Download (6 min 25 s - 6.0 MB) |
| December 28 | Tom Galasky Mission Manager Randy Smith | Flight planning, data display and storage onboard aircraft. |
| December 28 | Alan Myers Crew Member Kuiper Airborne Observatory | Telescope observations from aircraft, infrared spectrometer. |
| December 28 | Herman Reisaigal Crew Chief Kuiper Airborne Observatory | Describes his job of keeping aircraft going. |
| December 28 | Wendy Whiting Mission Director Kuiper Airborne Observatory | Kuiper description, Convair 990, reason for having telescope on aircraft, overcoming air turbulence and aircraft vibration, observations of Halley, Uranus, and Shoemaker-Levy-9, her job as Mission Director. |
