The Space Show

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...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 20 October 2021: Mythodia by the Greek composer Vangelis : Music dedicated to the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission celebrating 20 years mapping Mars Lucy : NASA’s mission to investigate the Trojan Asteroids launches successfully - Hal Levison , Lucy Principal Investigator Soyuz MS-18 returns to Earth from the ISS with a cosmonaut, a Russian actress and film director aboar...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 13 October 2021: Australia signs a deal with NASA to be part of a future Moon mission: The Australian Space Agency has reached an agreement with NASA for an Australian-made rover to be part of a future lunar mission, possibly as early as 2026, leveraging the nation's skills and experience in the resources sector. Leading Australian businesses and researchers will c...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 6 October 2021: Rocket Lab signs a dedicated launch contract with Astroscale Japan for the ADRAS-J (Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan) satellite   Rocket Lab awarded US$24.35 million contract with the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command for development of the upper stage of the company’s new Neutron launch vehicle Soyuz MS-19 launches a Russian cosm...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 29 September 2021: Dr Chris Boshuizen , a former NASA engineer at the Ames Research Centre and co-founder of Planet Labs ( now Planet ), is set to become only the third Australian to go to space when he launches aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard 18 suborbital mission, which is scheduled for October 14. Soyuz MS-19 crewed mission to the International Space Station is...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 22 September 2021: Space Show News: Update on Hapith I launch campaign from Southern Launch’s Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex in South Australia; Black Sky Aerospace weekend launch attempt of a sounding rocket; Gilmour Space static test fire of its hybrid rocket engine ; Inspiration4 crew plays Kings of Leon’s “Time in Disguise” NFT (Non-Fungible Token) music in...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 15 September 2021: The puzzle of the Australian satellites M2-A and M2-B: These satellites were launched on 2021 March 22 as one satellite, and separated last Friday, 10 September at 2:55 pm AEST. But M2-B has been given a NORAD number dated from March 22-24 period, not the range being allocated last week! SpaceX Inspiration4 mission: first-ever non-government, hum...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 September 2021: International Space Station: visible passes & cracks aboard the ISS Asteroids named including Asteroid (551014) Gorman for Dr Alice Gorman aka @DrSpaceJunk in the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature Bulletin (vol. 1 no. 7 p. 10) on 2 September 2021 Lunar environment panel discussion  GRAIL launch 10...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 1 September 2021: CUAVA-1 with Iver Cairns et al from the Centre for Cubesats, UAVs & their Applications at the University of Sydney  Binar-1 with Stuart Buchan and Fergus Downey from the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin University NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) controversy with Angelo Di Grazia Peter Beck , Founder, President & CEO of...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 25 August 2021: Doug Forrest , Space Artist Adam Gilmour, Co-Founder & CEO of Gilmour Space Episode 19 in our Planet Earth series: a weather report from Greenland; SMOS - an ESA satellite monitoring climate change; North American wildfires; Paul Davies on how life on Earth began; and the FORUM satellite Space news and more...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 18 August 2021: Antoinette Dailey , Executive Director, Operations and Communications, Australian Space Agency NASA Explorer program (circa 1991) Episode 18 in our Planet Earth series: ECOSTRESS, PACE, IceSat 2, greening Earth, IPCC scary story, methane on Earth and Mars, SMOS Space news and more...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 11 August 2021: Stan Anderson, Facilities Manager at ARIA ( Apollo/Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft ) Control answering questions from secondary school students Virtual Reality Flight Simulators (circa 1991) SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) Episode 17 in our Planet Earth series Space news and more...