The Space Show

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 12 October 2022:  Speaking at the Final Frontier Festival at Melbourne University, space historian Kerrie Dougherty ( @KerrieDougherty ) asks the question: “What’s space ever done for me?”  China’s involvement in the space field across the African continent .  BlueWalker 3 by AST SpaceMobile : A revolution in mobile telephony.  Space Show News:&...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 5 October 2022: National Space Council:  Scientific research on the International Space Station Space Traffic Awareness in low Earth orbit Chinese Moon exploration: Chinese scientists have discovered a new mineral in lunar samples they have called Changesite—(Y) Lunar Helium-3 analysis in lunar samples High pressure minerals in lunar regolith The identificatio...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 28 September 2022: NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully scores a direct hit on the asteroid Dimorphos:  Tom Slater, DART Program Scientist at NASA, describes the test objectives of the DART mission Elena Adams, DART Systems Engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory , answers questions from the media and takes us...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 21 September 2022: A conversation with the Space Association of Australia’s Angelo Di Grazia, reporting on his recent American space adventure including Vice President Kamala Harris’ remarks at her second National Space Council meeting in Houston and a visit to the SpaceX Starbase in Boco Chica.   See NASA Spaceflight’s 360 degree drive through of SpaceX Starb...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 14 September 2022: 60th anniversary of JFK’s a ddress at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort : NASA Administrator, Bill Nelson U.S. Representative, Brian Babin U.S. Representative, Al Green Greetings from astronauts aboard the International Space Station French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien and U.S. astronaut Shannon Walker Update on the status of Artemis I...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 7 September 2022: Angelo Di Grazia reports from the Kennedy Space Centre on the two scrubbed launch attempts for the Artemis I test mission Quinlan Buklap - A data scientist in space medicine takes us on a virtual journey to the Moon at the Moon Village Association conference MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) generates oxygen on the surfac...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 31 August 2022: Mike Sarafin (Artemis I Mission Manager, NASA) - Mission status Thomas Berger (Principal Investigator, German Aerospace Centre) - Helgar and Zohar Ramona Gaza (MARE Team Lead, NASA Johnson Space Centre, Houston) - Radiation experiments on Artemis I Shirit Schwarz (Director of Product Management, AstroRad at StemRad ) - AstroRad is personal protectiv...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 17 August 2022:  Artemis I mission milestones, priorities and science objectives Mike Sarafin (Artemis I Mission Manager) - Mission summary and priorities Bhavy Lal (TPS Associate Administrator) - Cubesats and Orion cabin science Sara Noble (Lead Lunar Scientist, NASA) - Lunar science - VIPER, LunaH-Map, Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter Pam Clark (JPL) - Lunar I...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 10 August 2022:  Part 2 of a two-part special episode marking the 10th anniversary of the Curiosity rover's landing in and exploration of Gale crater on Mars — in this episode we find out what the rover has been doing in the 10 years since it landed in August 2012. Announcing Lunar Science in the Artemis Era : a new series by The Space Show in which we discuss...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 3 August 2022: Part 1 of a two-part special episode marking the 10th anniversary of the Curiosity rover's landing in and exploration of Gale crater on Mars — we remember back to its landing day on 6 August 2012 and find out what it has been doing since. Announcing Lunar Science in the Artemis Era: a new series by The Space Show in which we discuss the scientific in...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 July 2022:   Space Show News: Lunar-VISE (Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer): NASA Selects New Instruments for Priority Artemis Science on Moon . VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) lunar rover: On 21 September 2021, NASA announced the landing site for its VIPER mission to the Moon’s south pole . On 19 July 2022, NASA resche...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 20 July 2022:  Planet Earth — Episode 44 The 50th Anniversary of the Landsat Earth Observation Program: The history of the Landsat satellites: a feature courtesy of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland The Space Show in conversation with David Hudson, Director of Satellite Programs for Satellite Land Imagery Collection at Geoscience Australia...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 13 July 2022:  The James Webb Space Telescope's first images shed new light on the cosmos: with Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Bill Nelson and a little help from James E. Webb . Psyche : Mission objectives, mission team and mission postponement announcement. Planet Earth — Episode 43:   CYGNUS (Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System) : Estimating methane e...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 29 June 2022:  NASA successfully launched the first of three sounding rockets from Equatorial Launch Australia’s Arnhem Space Centre in East Arnhem Land on the weekend .  The rocket carried the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter, or XQC, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. XQC contained unique X-ray detectors, cooled to a frigid one-twentieth of a degree ab...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 June 2022:  Planet Earth - Episode 40 Esper Satellite Imagery is a Melbourne based space startup focusing on collecting hyperspectral imagery from micro satellite constellations to supercharge industries with environmental data. Esper Satellite Imagery is developing small satellites capable of hyperspectral Earth observation, to deliver intelligent data from...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 1 June 2022:  Space Show News: Ed Husic is sworn in as Minister for Industry and Science: Australia’s new “Space Minister”  Planet Earth - Episode 39:  Moon Bounce: The Hubble Space Telescope detects signs of life on Earth by looking at the Moon during an eclipse Bushfire smoke detection from space with the TERRA , CloudSat and Suomi satellites &nbsp...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 25 May 2022:  Vale Vangelis: For 31 years, The Space Show has used as its opening theme, “Motion of Stars” by Vangelis . The Space Show is sad to report the death of Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou last week, at the age of 79. The artist, known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek musician, composer, songwriter and producer of electronic, progressive, amb...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 18 May 2022:  Eurovision 2022 (yes, there are space/astrophysics links): Italian and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti ( @AstroSamantha ), aboard the International Space Station, sends her greetings to the Eurovision Song Contest being held in Turin, Italy  Sam Ryder ( @SamRyderMusic ) with “Space Man” , the United Kingdom’s entrant in Eurovision 2022,...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 11 May 2022:  Space Show News: NASA’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) spacecraft is in transit from California to Rocket Lab’s launch complex 1B on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand  A report on the first two years of Yutu-2 , the robotic lunar rover component of CNSA's Chang'e 4 mission t...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 4 May 2022: The third and final part of a series of special episodes celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission to the Descartes region of the lunar highlands in the words of Commander, John Young and Lunar Module Pilot, Charlie Duke, as recorded by The Space Show. Nothing So Hidden: " There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 April 2022: Part 2 of a three-part series of special episodes celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission in the words of Commander, John Young and Lunar Module Pilot, Charlie Duke, as recorded by The Space Show . In tonight’s episode, the Apollo 16 astronauts take their lunar roving vehicle for a spin in the first "Grand Prix" held on the Moon; di...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 20 April 2022: Part 1 of a three-part series of special episodes celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission in the words of Commander, John Young and Lunar Module Pilot, Charlie Duke, as recorded by The Space Show. Only twelve people have walked on the Moon. Only one (the 10th person) of that dozen has walked into the studios of Southern FM where The...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 13 April 2022: The Space Show interviews Dr Malcolm Davis , a Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). In a wide-ranging conversation, Dr Davis breaks down the 2022 Federal Budget and its implications for the Australian Space Agency, the Australian Defence Force, the Defence Space Command, sovereign space capability and more. The Strategi...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 30 March 2022: Space Show News: Australian Federal Budget 2022: $1.3 billion to grow the Australian space sector and space manufacturing industry. This includes $1.2 billion to establish a National Space Mission for Earth Observation to secure data streams, build Australia’s sovereign capability and enter agreements with international partners including for the pro...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 23 March 2022: Space Show News: Australian launch permit application fees abolished by the Australian Government Australian Space Agency tasked with developing a Space Strategic Update  Activation of the Australian Defence Space Command [ Note: A feature on the formation of the Australian Defence Force Space Division from the 12 May 2021 episode of The Space S...