On The Space Show for Wednesday, 26 April 2023:

Lunar Mining and Robotics — Part 2 of a panel discussion with the Moon Village Association recorded at Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne in March 2019, featuring:

* Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Senior Research Fellow, Geo-environmental Studies, University of Queensland

* Carlos Espejel, iSpace, Luxembourg

* Bohan Deng, CEO Spherospace, Sydney

* Daniel Ricardo & Henry Lourey, Nova Rover Team, Monash University

Space Show News:

* SpaceX Starship/Superheavy launch report

* Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to deliver Australia’s first sovereign military satellite communications constellation MilSatCom.

* Fleet Space Technologies has signed a $6.4M contract with the Australian Defence Space Command

China’s future space missions revealed:

* A mission to Ceres and a large dark matter space telescope

* A clear and independent long-term vision for space

* A pathway for lunar and deep space exploration

What's happening on Mars:

* NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has completed 51 flights across the surface of the Red Planet

* More on plans for future investigations of the Perseverance Mars rover

NASA and the Department of Energy are collaborating on an innovative lunar experiment to attempt first of its kind measurement of the dark ages of the universe — the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment (LuSEE-Night)

Planet Earth: Season 4 - Episode 50

* The TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution) mission

* The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission