SOME ITEMS BROADCAST DURING 2025

FEATURES
compiled/written by Andrew Rennie

(Unless otherwise noted)
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)