The Space Show

2022.09.28 | On an asteroid far, far away, the Earth strikes back!

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 28 September 2022:

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully scores a direct hit on the asteroid Dimorphos: 

  • Tom Slater, DART Program Scientist at NASA, describes the test objectives of the DART mission
  • Elena Adams, DART Systems Engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, answers questions from the media and takes us through the final stages of the mission. 


    • Space Show News:

    • Valery Polyakov: A record-breaking Russian cosmonaut dies aged 80. Valery Polyakov spent 437 full days orbiting the Earth between 1994 and 1995 on the Mir space station.
    • The maiden launch of United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket set for 2022, will carry the autonomous Peregrine lunar lander for Astrobotic and the cremated remains of Australian-born NASA astronaut Philip Chapman and Star Trek actor Nichelle Nicholls for the Celestis memorial spaceflight company.
    • The Artemis I has been rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to shelter from Hurricane Ian 
    • The Mars helicopter Ingenuity has made three flights in the month of September while the Perseverance rover continues to explore a geologically rich part of Jezero Crater.


      • National Space Council: 

      • Chairperson, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris recommits the United States to a direct ascent anti-satellite test ban. The U.S. will introduce a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly to call on other nations to make the same commitment.
      • Addressing orbital debris or cleaning up space junk 
      • Three space directives: two for NASA and one for the Department of Transportation.
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        The Space ShowBy Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of Australia