The Space Show

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...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 16 March 2022: SLS Artemis 1 rollout and wet dress rehearsal: Artemis 1 , is a planned uncrewed test flight for NASA's Artemis program. It is the first flight of the agency's Space Launch System super heavy-lift launch vehicle and the first flight of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Binar-2 and beyond including outreach to schools and the amateur radio communi...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 2 March 2022: Space Show News: The Space Show takes a dig at Prime Minister Scott Morrison by giving him a lesson on the history of Australians in space Ukrainian singer Alena Vinnitskaya performs “ Stargazer (Astrologer) ”  Suraj Bijjahalli (RMIT University): Augmenting global navigation systems Belinda Nicholson (University of Southern Queensland): Stars as...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 23 February 2022: “Splashdown, John Glenn” , a new song celebrating the 60th anniversary of the flight of Friendship 7 by the HR Arts Factory . An interview with Simon Banks , an Australian composer and musician, about his song, five years in the making, about John Glenn. Siddharth Pandey (Mars Society Australia): An Astrobiology Expedition to Ladakk, India.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 16 February 2022: A special edition of The Space Show commemorating the 60th anniversary of the first United States human orbital spaceflight by John Glenn in his Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft. The program will feature a 1962 audio documentary about the flight, a  portion of Glenn's 2013 oral history recording, Glenn's 1962 speech to a joint sitting of the U...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 9 February 2022: An update on the Swift Observatory satellite, together with a feature about one of its findings: a stellar tidal disruption event, courtesy of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. China's Five Year Space Plan . Steven Hobbs (University of New South Wales, Sydney) - Hands-off Field Work: Comparing human and robotic methods of gath...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 2 February 2022:  Upulie Divisekera (Monash University) - A New Era of Space Exploration   James Webb Space Telescope - The next-generation infra-red observatory has entered orbit around L2, the second Lagrange Point    Swift Observatory enters safe mode - Also, a feature from the Goddard Space Flight Centre, in Greenbelt, Maryland describes one...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 December 2021: Launch coverage of Soyuz MS-20 : a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station launched on 8 December 2021. Soyuz MS-20 is commanded by a single professional cosmonaut, Alexander Misurkin, and carries two space tourists, Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano for the space tourism company Space Adventures . NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 1 December 2021: Aussie movers and shakers: Self-profiles by some of Australia's space industry's leaders. Australian based Saber Astronautics has signed a deal with private U.S. spaceflight company Axiom Space to create an Australian presence on the International Space Station. Ben Greene, Group CEO, Electro-Optics Systems , Canberra on 'Sovereign Space Situationa...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 24 November 2021: Planet Earth: Global Rising Sea Levels Sentinel 6 satellite one year anniversary Sea level rise Glaciers driving sea-level rise Land subsidence High tide flooding Australian buildings at sea level El Nino and La Nina Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite “Rising Seas” by the Australian band Midnight Oil (song) Josh Willis, Lead Scientis...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 17 November 2021: The United States has condemned a Russian anti-satellite missile test: The U.S. State Department has accused Russia of jeopardising the safety and security of space exploration following the launch of an anti-satellite missile against one of its own targets, the defunct Cosmos 1408 satellite. Planet Earth - Episode 26  Global Methane Pledge a...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 10 November 2021: A leaky toilet on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft has forced NASA to ask it's Crew 2 astronauts returning to Earth to use absorbent 'undergarments' – also known as 'adult diapers' for the eight-hour trip home.     LeoLabs to construct space radars in Western Australia: LeoLabs has announced it will construct two phased-array space r...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 3 November 2021: NASA's SpaceX Crew 3 mission : The launch of the next commercial crew mission to the International Space Station, already postponed by weather, has been further delayed by what NASA calls a “minor medical issue” with one of its four astronauts. Lucy mission : Spacecraft in cruise mode but solar panel remains unlatched and only partially deployed Ma...