The Space Show

By Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of Australia

The Space Show is a one-hour radio program presented every Wednesday evening between 7.00 and 8.00 pm Australian Eastern Time by Andrew Rennie for 88.3 Southern FM and the Space Association of Austral... more

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The podcast currently has 227 episodes available.

The Space Show episodes:

August 31, 20222022.08.31 | Artemis I: A review of the first launch attempt and more mission science
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 31 August 2022:
Mike Sarafin (Artemis I Mission Manager, NASA) - Mission status

Thomas Berger (Principal Investigator, German Aerospace Centre) - Helgar and Zohar

Ramona Gaza (MARE Team Lead, NASA Johnson Space Centre, Houston) - Radiation experiments on Artemis I

Shirit Schwarz (Director of Product Management, AstroRad at StemRad) - AstroRad is personal protective equipment for astronauts to wear beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) that markedly reduces Radiation Exposure Induced Death (REID) such as cancer, while eliminating the possibility of Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) due to solar particle events (SPE).

Gender differences and radiation risk - Ramona Gaza

Sergio Santa Maria (Lead Scientist, NASA AMES Research Center) - BioSentinel

Justin Gomet (Project Manager, Orion Crew Survival Systems, NASA Johnson Space Centre, Houston) - Commander Moonkin Campos: A mannequin in a spacesuit

Rod Chambers (Director, Commercial Civil Space Strategy, Lockheed Martin) - Callisto: A version of Alexa aboard the Orion spacecraft

Dr Omar Eduardo Rodriguez speaking at the Moon Village Association about mental health on long duration spaceflight
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August 24, 20222022.08.24 | Artemis I: A preview of the science secondary payloads
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 24 August 2022:
Rachael Craft, NASA Office of Communications — Introduction to the secondary payloads on the Artemis I mission

Jacob Bleacher, NASA Chief Exploration Scientist — Summary of the key science objectives of the Artemis I mission

Craig Hardgrove, Principal Investigator of LunaH-Map, Arizona State University — A cubesat creating higher-fidelity maps of near-surface hydrogen in craters and other permanently shadowed regions of the lunar South Pole with neutron spectrometers

Joseph Shoa, Architect for Small Satellite Missions, describes LunIR (formerly known as SkyFire) — A Lockheed Martin cubesat that will perform advanced infrared imaging of the lunar surface

Ben Belfris, Principal Investigator on the Lunar IceCube mission by Morehead State University — Searching for water in all forms and other volatiles with an infrared spectrometer

OMOTENASHI – JAXA, Japan — Developing the world’s smallest lunar lander and studying the lunar environment

EQUULEUS – University of Tokyo/JAXA, Japan — Imaging the Earth’s plasmasphere for a better understanding of Earth’s radiation environment from Earth-Moon LaGrange 2 point

Team Miles — Demonstrating propulsion using plasma thrusters and competing in NASA’s Deep Space Derby

NEA Scout — Traveling by solar sail to a near-Earth asteroid and taking pictures and other characterisations of its surface

CuSP – Southwest Research Institute — Measuring particles and magnetic fields as a space weather station

ArgoMoon – Italian Space Agency, ArgoTec, Italy — Observing the interim cryogenic propulsion stage with advanced optics and software imaging system
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August 17, 20222022.08.17 | Artemis I: A preview of the mission milestones, priorities and science objectives
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 17 August 2022:
Artemis I mission milestones, priorities and science objectives
Mike Sarafin (Artemis I Mission Manager) - Mission summary and priorities

Bhavy Lal (TPS Associate Administrator) - Cubesats and Orion cabin science

Sara Noble (Lead Lunar Scientist, NASA) - Lunar science - VIPER, LunaH-Map, Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter

Pam Clark (JPL) - Lunar IceCube

GSFC PR - Lunar IceCube BIRCHES

Craig Hardgrove (Arizona State University) - LunaH-Map
Biomedicine and lunar spaceflight with Gordon Cable (University of Adelaide)
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56min
August 10, 2022 2022.08.10 | The Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale crater on Mars for 10 years — Part 2
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 10 August 2022:
Part 2 of a two-part special episode marking the 10th anniversary of the Curiosity rover's landing in and exploration of Gale crater on Mars — in this episode we find out what the rover has been doing in the 10 years since it landed in August 2012.
Announcing Lunar Science in the Artemis Era: a new series by The Space Show in which we discuss the scientific investigation of the Moon and its environment in the Artemis era. Lunar Science is about the science to be done on and near the Moon during the Artemis project and the supporting uncrewed missions. These programs will be released shortly as a seperate podcast stream, or you can begin listening now by visiting: https://space.southernfm.com.au/LunarScience/LunarScience.html.
will.i.am releases his “Reach for the Stars (Mars Edition)” single on Mars courtesy of the NASA Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet. The single became the first song in history to be broadcast from another planet, completing a journey of more than 300 million miles between Mars and Earth.
Monash University’s Nova Rover student team at the Moon Village Association’s Forum on the Moon, talk about their entry into the Mars Society's international University Rover Challenge competition.
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46min
August 04, 2022 2022.08.03 | The Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale crater on Mars for 10 years — Part 1
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 3 August 2022:
Part 1 of a two-part special episode marking the 10th anniversary of the Curiosity rover's landing in and exploration of Gale crater on Mars — we remember back to its landing day on 6 August 2012 and find out what it has been doing since.
Announcing Lunar Science in the Artemis Era: a new series by The Space Show in which we discuss the scientific investigation of the Moon and its environment in the Artemis era. Lunar Science is about the science to be done on and near the Moon during the Artemis project and the supporting uncrewed missions. These programs will be released shortly as a seperate podcast stream, or begin listening now by visiting: https://space.southernfm.com.au/LunarScience/LunarScience.html.
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July 27, 20222022.07.27 | Lunar-VISE, VIPER, JUICE, Draper SERIES-2 and a potpourri of other space items
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 July 2022:
Space Show News:
Lunar-VISE (Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer): NASA Selects New Instruments for Priority Artemis Science on Moon.

VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) lunar rover: On 21 September 2021, NASA announced the landing site for its VIPER mission to the Moon’s south pole. On 19 July 2022, NASA reschedules CLPS delivery of VIPER to 2024 to reduce risk to the mission.

NASA has awarded Draper of Cambridge, Massachusetts a contract to deliver Artemis science investigations to the Schrödinger Basin on the far side of the Moon in 2025: The commercial delivery is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative under Artemis.

The Australian Defence Force has started planning for two experimental Australian satellite missions: Australia’s Chief Defence Scientist, Professor Tanya Monro, has announced that Airbus has been selected as the strategic partner for Defence’s Resilient Multi-mission Space STaR Shot – a strategic research program established to develop future space capabilities for the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

Space Industry Association of Australia conference Q&A panel session moderated by Prof. Alan Duffy on Australian space industry workforce planning.
Prof. Iver Cairns from CUAVA (the ARC Training Centre for CubeSats, UAVs, and their Applications at the University of Sydney) in conversation with the Space Association of Australia on the future of CUAVA and the multiple uses for cubesats.
From the Vault: 1986 NASA feature on the “Orient Express”, the National Aero-Space Plane, designated the X-30.
The magnetic objectives of the delayed Psyche mission.
JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission overview and implications of the launch delay: a feature courtesy of the European Space Agency.
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54min
July 21, 20222022.07.20 | Landsat turns 50 while Saber Astronautics launches an Australian Astronaut Program
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 20 July 2022:
Planet Earth — Episode 44
The 50th Anniversary of the Landsat Earth Observation Program:
The history of the Landsat satellites: a feature courtesy of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland

The Space Show in conversation with David Hudson, Director of Satellite Programs for Satellite Land Imagery Collection at Geoscience Australia about Landsat and Australia

Jeff Masek, the Project Scientist for Landsat 9 answers questions from the Goddard Space Flight Center Public Affairs team

Nine facts about Landsat
EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation): EMIT will be the first instrument to use NASA-invented imaging spectroscopy technology to comprehensively measure the mineral composition of the Earth's arid land dust source regions.
Space Show News:
The recently launched United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) USA-334 satellite has an Australian Defence Force connection

On 5 July 2022, Saber Astronautics, an Australian global space operations provider, signed a deal with U.S. private spaceflight leader Axiom Space Inc. The agreement is set to create an Australian presence on the International Space Station (ISS) and future Axiom Station. Saber Astronautics will develop the first formal program to enable Australians and Australian industry to, via Axiom, access the Station’s orbiting microgravity laboratory and develop a new generation of space-developed products for human health, materials, electronics, cleantech, and more.
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56min
July 13, 20222022.07.13 | First Light: Images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 13 July 2022:
The James Webb Space Telescope's first images shed new light on the cosmos: with Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Bill Nelson and a little help from James E. Webb.
Psyche: Mission objectives, mission team and mission postponement announcement.
Planet Earth — Episode 43:
CYGNUS (Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System): Estimating methane emissions from wetlands

SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity): A European Space Agency Earth Explorer Mission measures the water cycle - an ESA feature

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti addresses the World Economic Forum on orbit from the International Space Station

“Escape to Mars” by Gift of Gab.
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46min
July 07, 2022 2022.07.06 | Telstar 1 and the Goonhilly Ground Station
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 6 July 2022:
In this special episode, we mark the 60th anniversary of the launch of Telstar 1: the world’s first active telecommunications satellite. On only its second day in orbit, the satellite relayed the first live television pictures broadcast across the Atlantic. The satellite captured the imagination of people all around the globe and sparked a new age of instant worldwide communications.
The event also inspired a chart-topping musical tribute. "Telstar" is a 1962 instrumental recording originally written and produced by Joe Meek for the English band the Tornados. In December 1962, the track reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
Listen to an eerie goodwill recording from John F. Kennedy to the people of Japan relayed by Telstar 2 only two days before the U.S. president’s assassination in Dallas, Texas.
Telstar made one place in the United Kingdom very well-known to the public: the British Telecom (BT) ground station at Goonhilly in Cornwall. A BT feature outlines the history and operation of the Goonhilly facility.
The Space Show in conversation with Robert Gough, the Head of Business Development for Australia and Asia-Pacific, Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd, Goonhilly Downs, Helston, Cornwall.
The Telstar satellites were superseded by the Intelsat series of satellites. Early Bird 1 (Intelsat 1-F1) was the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geostationary orbit in April 1965.
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52min
June 30, 20222022.06.29 | NASA launches twice down under within 48 hours from Australia and New Zealand
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 29 June 2022:
NASA successfully launched the first of three sounding rockets from Equatorial Launch Australia’s Arnhem Space Centre in East Arnhem Land on the weekend. The rocket carried the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter, or XQC, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. XQC contained unique X-ray detectors, cooled to a frigid one-twentieth of a degree above absolute zero, to measure interstellar X-rays with unprecedented precision to better understand the interstellar medium and its influence on the structure and evolution of galaxies and stars. Australia Sounding Rocket Campaign Press Kit.
Successful launch of CAPSTONE on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from New Zealand’s North Island. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, the NASA CubeSat designed to test a unique lunar orbit, is safely in space and on the first leg of its journey to the Moon. The spacecraft is heading toward an orbit intended in the future for Gateway, a lunar space station built by the agency and its commercial and international partners that will support NASA’s Artemis program, including human landing missions.
Measuring, managing and automating the detection of aircraft wake turbulence: an episode of The Space Story courtesy of NASA.
Planet Earth - Episode 42:
The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Mission will measure Earth’s changing ecosystems, dynamic surfaces, and ice masses providing information about biomass, natural hazards, sea level rise, and groundwater, and will support a host of other applications.

The NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) launched on 15 December 2016, is a NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder Mission that is intended to collect the first frequent space‐based measurements of surface wind speeds in the inner core of tropical cyclones.

The NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission, is a constellation of state-of-the-science observing platforms that will measure temperature, humidity and precipitation with microwave spatial resolution but with an unprecedented median revisit time of 50 minutes.
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FAQs about The Space Show:

How many episodes does The Space Show have?

The podcast currently has 227 episodes available.