The Space Show

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...