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:

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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 programme
• Skykraft forges ahead with its aeronautical satellite constellation.

(Audio inserts courtesy ABC, Sky, DSTG, SIAA)

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
• Takahe Mission
• Centauri satellites.

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 — Part 1:

A survey of the currently active spacecraft studying our Solar System. Today, the Sun, Mercury and Venus.

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 the School of Physics, University of Sydney, discusses large space structures of volume 7000 cubic metres made of composite materials cured in space.

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is designed to discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest dwarf stars in the sky (Inserts courtesy CXC, GSFC, NASA)

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 crewed mission to Mars by 2028!

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 with MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cerenkov) experiment and VERITAS (the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System).

Early findings of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have been revised:

According to a new study in the Astronomical Journal led by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Katherine Chworowsky, early galaxies are in fact much less massive than they first appeared in the JWST data. Black holes in some of these galaxies make them appear much brighter and bigger than they really are.

Fram2 Polar Mission — Part 1: One More Orbit

The strange and convoluted story of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Fram2 private space polar orbiting mission, and of its crew members.