On The Space Show for Wednesday, 17 April 2024:

Fleet Space Technologies of Adelaide:

* Centauri 6 satellite orbited on April 8 at 9:16 a.m. AEST

* Centauri 4 modified to allow "push-to-talk" messages by the Australian Defence Force

* Fleet's ExoSphere geodes used in mineral exploration

* ExoSphere technology to be incorporated into a sensor called "SPIDER” to be placed onto the lunar surface by the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost 2 lander to search for buried water ice.

A description of the LuSEE experiment to be placed on the lunar far side to do radio cosmology, with Prof. Stuart Bale, the NASA Principal Investigator for LuSEE-Night from the University of California, Berkeley.

Is Space Machines Optimus satellite an example of the common fate of small satellite missions — 'dead on arrival’?:

* Dandelions had hoped to test composite material, including hemp, on Optimus

* The role of the Sydney-based Advanced Navigation company on the Optimus satellite.

Gilmour Space is preparing to launch the first Australian built satellite launch vehicle called Eris, from its Bowen Orbital Spaceport in Queensland:

* Eris, a dwarf planet, not a moon.