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2023.12.06 | There’s a new SpIRIT in the sky
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 6 December 2023:
SpIRIT launched: The Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal satellite, or SpIRIT, was launched for the Melbourne Space Laboratory by a Falcon 9 rocket after pre-launch secrecy. (Audio inserts courtesy Melbourne University, SpaceX, Neumann Space)
Message in a bottle: Join the mission and have your name engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore Europa, an ocean world that may support life.
Australia’s lunar rover named: Australia's first Moon rover to be named Roo-ver, after public competition receives more than 8,000 submissions.
US, UK, and Australia announce trilateral Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability initiative: The new program is designed to provide 24/7, all-weather capabilities that will increase the ability to detect, track, identify and characterise objects in deep space. The memorandum of understanding between the three countries will last 22 years.
Cancellation of Science, Technology and Research (STaR) Shots Australian defence satellite program: Reports that the Defence Science Technology Group's RMS satellites have been cancelled without public announcement after two satellite buses had been built. Rod Smith (Leader, Resilient Multi-mission Space STaR Shot, DST, Adelaide) explains the project's rationale. (Audio inserts courtesy Sky, DST).
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By Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of AustraliaOn The Space Show for Wednesday, 6 December 2023:
SpIRIT launched: The Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal satellite, or SpIRIT, was launched for the Melbourne Space Laboratory by a Falcon 9 rocket after pre-launch secrecy. (Audio inserts courtesy Melbourne University, SpaceX, Neumann Space)
Message in a bottle: Join the mission and have your name engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore Europa, an ocean world that may support life.
Australia’s lunar rover named: Australia's first Moon rover to be named Roo-ver, after public competition receives more than 8,000 submissions.
US, UK, and Australia announce trilateral Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability initiative: The new program is designed to provide 24/7, all-weather capabilities that will increase the ability to detect, track, identify and characterise objects in deep space. The memorandum of understanding between the three countries will last 22 years.
Cancellation of Science, Technology and Research (STaR) Shots Australian defence satellite program: Reports that the Defence Science Technology Group's RMS satellites have been cancelled without public announcement after two satellite buses had been built. Rod Smith (Leader, Resilient Multi-mission Space STaR Shot, DST, Adelaide) explains the project's rationale. (Audio inserts courtesy Sky, DST).