The Space Show

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 15 January 2025: Australia and Transporter 12 The launch this morning of the Transporter 12 mission, carrying Australian satellites Centauri 7 and Centauri 8 from Fleet Space, and satellites carrying Australian parts, including: * Impulse 2 with a Holmes-007 camera from HEO Robotics * Edison with Neuman Space's ND-50 second generation electric-ion thruster. Also la...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 15 January 2025: Blue Ghost 1 by Firefly & Hakuto R M2 by ispace 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.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 January 2025: Mars Sample Return Mission: From NASA HQ, Bill Nelson (Administrator) and Nicky Fox (Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate), outline a new plan to retrieve the Mars surface samples collected by the Perseverance rover. Mars Sample Return , is a joint campaign being planned by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), which would see mu...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 18 December 2024: Australian Space Industry 2024 — Part 21 (final) * DSTG Buccaneer liquid lens * Australia - New Zealand Collaborative Space Program * Varda to land in Koonibba test range in South Australia * Duckweed in space * Starlink satellites interfere with the Square Kilometre Array * Australia - Greece space agreement * Lunasa to fly its StarLogic Rendezvo...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 11 December 2024: Space Show News: * Artemis II and Artemis III delayed to no earlier than 2026 and 2027 respectively Australian Space Industry 2024 — Part 20: * Fleet Space Technologies and its involvement in the SEVEN SISTERS project – Australia’s First Lunar Exploration Mission * HEO Robotics * Impulse Space * Rio Tinto * Kanyini * Paladin Space * Australian Spa...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 4 December 2024: Australian Space Industry 2024 - Part 19 Tim Parsons, Co-Founder X-Lab: We take a look back at the state of the Australian space industry before the establishment of the Australian Space Agency — has much changed? * Changing global space trends; start-up companies questioning space regulatory requirements; and educational needs. * Defence space in...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 November 2024: Australian Space Industry 2024 - Part 18: iLAuNCH UK-Australia Space Bridge Myriota. (Inserts courtesy ABC, BNSC, SMC, iLAuNCH, Grundfos)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 20 November 2024: Solar System Missions — Part 3: A survey of the currently active spacecraft studying our Solar System. Today, Jupiter, Kuiper Belt and Uranus.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 13 November 2024: Try SCE to Aux: Marking the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 12 mission, with a detailed account of the lightning strikes during ascent, and profiles of astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean. When Shirley Bassey met Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad. A brief history of space tracking in Australia by space historian, Colin MacKellar.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 6 November 2024: Australian Space Industry 2024 — Part 17: Southern Launch's Whalers Way launch site approved Gilmour Space receives Eris orbital launch permit JP9102 project for a military geostationary communications satellite cancelled STaR Shot overview (Rod Smith, Leader, STaR Shot, DSTG, Adelaide) Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG’s) small satellite...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 30 October 2024: Solar System Missions - Part 2: A survey of the currently active spacecraft studying our Solar System. Today Mars, Asteroids and Jupiter. Australian Space Industry 2024 - Part 16: Buccaneer Main Mission due as Buccaneer Risk Mitigation Mission reenters on 2024 October 4 SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre and New Zealand joint projects SatPing Tak...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 23 October 2024: Australian Space Industry 2024 - Part 15: * Scott Morrison joins Space Centre Australia * Equatorial Launch Australia signs up Sirius Space Services * Neuman Space teams with Inovor * Space Machines' Optimus 2 to be launched by New Space in 2026 * Australian Defence Force Space Command takes up residency at Adelaide's Lot 14. Solar System Missions...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 16 October 2024: Astrophysics miscellany: * Gamma-ray bursts * Chandra X-ray Observatory sees big explosion * Black hole outflow * NuSTAR . What sedimentary rock layers can reveal about the evolution of the solar system with Prof. Walter Alvarez UC Berkley, California (Courtesy UA) Large space structures: Dr Alexey Kondyurin , an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 9 October 2024: Fram2 Polar Mission — Part 2: Greenland & Polar Orbit The strange and convoluted story of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Fram2 private polar orbiting space mission and of its crew members. Eric Philips , an Australian polar explorer, is on the crew of Fram2. Space Show News: Presidential candidate and ex-president Donald Trump wants the U.S. to send a c...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 2 October 2024: Space Show News: * Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS : Having emerged intact from behind the Sun, it is now being observed from Australia and may become a daytime comet. * A French-China cooperative satellite, the Space Variable Objects Monitor or SVOM , has been placed into orbit to monitor gamma-ray bursts. From The Space Show Archive: The Fermi satellite w...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 25 September 2024: Space Show News: * Asteroid 2024 PT5 — The tiny asteroid 2024 PT5 will be temporarily 'captured' by Earth's gravity and become a ‘mini-Moon’. * MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission orbits Mars for 10 years. * Perseverance continues to investigate Mars, collect and cache rock samples. Mars and Europa — Ocean Worlds?: Debunking re...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 18 September 2024: Starlink and the Ionosphere: An alarming scientific paper by Sierra Solter points to possible disastrous effects on the Earth's magnetosphere caused by Starlink and other satellite constellations. Polaris Dawn mission: * Comparing the full extra vehicular activities by Alexi Leonov and Ed White with the stand-up EVA on the Polaris Dawn mission. *...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 11 September 2024: Australian Binar satellites: * A detailed report on the fate of Curtin University's Binar-1 cubesat in 2021 * The deployment of the Binar-2, Binar-3 and Binar-4 cubesats on 29 August 2024 * Plans for Binar Prospector Europa Clipper mission: * After rigorous testing of suspect transistors, it has been decided to proceed with the launch next mo...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 4 September 2024: Space Show News: * Boeing, boing, boing — strange pulsing noise emanates from the speakers on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner. A collection of reports from The Space Show archive about astronomy and space science: European Southern Observatory HARPS telescope discovers a Solar twin in an open cluster hosting exoplanets. A look back at the discovery o...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 28 August 2024: Space Show News: * Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test update —Starliner to return uncrewed and the crew to return on Crew Dragon 9 in February 2025 Astronomical Miscellany: ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre Array) — European Southern Observatory, Chile HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) — European Southern Observatory Europa Clipper b...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 21 August 2024: SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter 11 rideshare mission: The launch of Kanyini, CUAVA-2, and Waratah Seed 1 (Inserts courtesy SpaceX) An update on the University of Melbourne’s SpIRIT satellite tests of the Neuman Drive. Findings from the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) crash into the double asteroid have been published and reveal Didymos and Dimor...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 14 August 2024: Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN): SouthPAN is a joint initiative of the Australian and New Zealand Governments that provides Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) for position, navigation and timing services for Australia and New Zealand. Geoscience Australia as the Australian Government lead agency, is working in collaborat...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 7 August 2024: Boeing Starliner Crewed Flight Test: The details of the Starliner CFT and some of the headlines and stories about it. Also, scheduling of traffic at the International Space Station. (Inserts courtesy JSC) Satellite-based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) for Position, Navigation and Timing SBAS panel session recorded at the Space Industry Association of Au...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 31 July 2024: The cancellation of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover or VIPER mission: Details of the rover's objectives and instrumentation by Anthony Colaprete (Project Scientist, VIPER, Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California), and the cancellation announcement and explanation by Niki Fox and Joel Kearns (NASA HQ, Washington). (Inser...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 17 July 2024: Remembering Joe Engle: To mark the death last week of Joe Engle, a recounting of his experiences flying the X-15 and the Space Shuttle. Searching for Skylab: Remembering the 45th anniversary of the crash of Skylab near Esperance in Western Australia, Skylab 2 astronaut Joe Kerwin and Australian filmmaker Dwight Steven-Boniecki discuss Skylab and the d...