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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How many episodes does The Space Show have?

The podcast currently has 227 episodes available.

The Space Show episodes:

March 30, 2022 2022.03.30 | $1.3 billion to grow the Australian space sector and space manufacturing industry
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 30 March 2022: Space Show News: Australian Federal Budget 2022: $1.3 billion to grow the Australian space sector and space manufacturing industry. This includes $1.2 billion to establish a National Space Mission for Earth Observation to secure data streams, build Australia’s sovereign capability and enter agreements with international partners including for the procurement and operation of four Australian cross-calibration, radiometer satellites. Russia’s war in Ukraine and the effect on the international space industry with Space Association of Australia member, Angelo Di Grazia Ingenuity helicopter conducts it’s 22 flight across Mars while NASA has extended its operational mission again, this time until September Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft roll-out and a wet dress rehearsal (WDR) update James Webb Space Telescope update Planet Earth - Episode 34: European Space Agency (ESA) satellite monitoring algal blooms ESA’s Space Safety and Security Applications: Detecting and mitigating threats from space INCUS - Investigation of Convective Updrafts: NASA’s 3rd Venture Mission
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March 23, 20222022.03.23 | Activation of the Australian Defence Space Command
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 23 March 2022:
Space Show News:
Australian launch permit application fees abolished by the Australian Government

Australian Space Agency tasked with developing a Space Strategic Update

Activation of the Australian Defence Space Command

[Note: A feature on the formation of the Australian Defence Force Space Division from the 12 May 2021 episode of The Space Show can be found here: http://space.southernfm.com.au/spaceshow2021programmes.html]

A compilation of space-related items affected by the Russian war in Ukraine
Prof. Christian Barry, School of Philosophy at the Australian National University in Canberra on “The ethical benefits of sharing the benefits of space utilisation” - some thoughts foreshadowing the Monday, 28 March meeting of the Space Association of Australia
[Join us for the March 2022 meeting of the Space Association of Australia: The Ethics of Space Colonisation with Gordon Young of Ethilogical - details & Zoom reservations here http://thq.fyi/se/48c12b3dd7e6]

A review of the roll-out celebrations of Artemis-1:
Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator, Artemis-1 commendation speech

Eddie Vedder (musician) sings "Invincible", the theme song of the Artemis program

A feature on the successful mirror alignment of the James Webb Space Telescope
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March 16, 20222022.03.16 | Artemis 1: NASA prepares to return humans to the Moon
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 16 March 2022:
SLS Artemis 1 rollout and wet dress rehearsal: Artemis 1, is a planned uncrewed test flight for NASA's Artemis program. It is the first flight of the agency's Space Launch System super heavy-lift launch vehicle and the first flight of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.

Binar-2 and beyond including outreach to schools and the amateur radio community and the ambition of sending a Binar prospector to the Moon with Fergus Downey at the Space Science Technology Centre, Curtin University

A NASA primer on the Space Service Volume of the Global Navigation Satellite System

Multi-GNSS and CUAVA 2 and 3 with Prof. Iver Cairns, Director of CUAVA, the ARC Training Centre for CubeSats, UAVs, and their Applications at Sydney University presenting to the Space Industry Association of Australia

Planet Earth - Episode 33: Sea level rises projected by a joint report of three U.S. Government agencies: NASA, NOAA and the U.S. Geological Survey
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March 09, 20222022.03.09 | Project Rainbow Python: In-space imaging and processing
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 9 March 2022:
Andrew Sysouphat (BAE Systems) - Australian designed space telescope

Vasily Lobzin (Bureau of Meteorology) - Automated solar flare prediction

Kirco Arsov (Bureau of Meteorology) - Space Weather Services

Enrico Palermo and Campbell Pegg (Australian Space Agency) - Australian Moon to Mars Initiative

Carlos Espejel (iSpace) - A business case for mining the Moon

Peter Beck (Rocket Lab) - Introducing Pad B: A new launch pad as part of Launch Complex 1 on the New Zealand north island
Planet Earth - Episode 32:
Spiral Blue (Sydney) and Esper Satellite Imagery (Melbourne) - Project Rainbow Python: An in-space imaging and processing system
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March 02, 20222022.03.02 | Australia, an astronaut nation?
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 2 March 2022:
Space Show News: The Space Show takes a dig at Prime Minister Scott Morrison by giving him a lesson on the history of Australians in space

Ukrainian singer Alena Vinnitskaya performs “Stargazer (Astrologer)”

Suraj Bijjahalli (RMIT University): Augmenting global navigation systems

Belinda Nicholson (University of Southern Queensland): Stars as proxies for studying the Sun's early history

Planet Earth - Episode 31: A feature from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on its Earth observation spacecraft
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February 23, 2022 2022.02.23 | 60th anniversary of the flight of John Glenn: Part II
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 23 February 2022:
“Splashdown, John Glenn”, a new song celebrating the 60th anniversary of the flight of Friendship 7 by the HR Arts Factory.
An interview with Simon Banks, an Australian composer and musician, about his song, five years in the making, about John Glenn.
Siddharth Pandey (Mars Society Australia): An Astrobiology Expedition to Ladakk, India.
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46min
February 16, 2022 2022.02.16 | Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the first U.S. human orbital spaceflight by John Glenn
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 16 February 2022:
A special edition of The Space Show commemorating the 60th anniversary of the first United States human orbital spaceflight by John Glenn in his Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft. The program will feature a 1962 audio documentary about the flight, a portion of Glenn's 2013 oral history recording, Glenn's 1962 speech to a joint sitting of the U.S. Congress, and several songs about John Glenn and his MA-6 mission.

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February 09, 20222022.02.09 | Hands-off Field Work: Comparing human and robotic gathered terrain data
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 9 February 2022:
An update on the Swift Observatory satellite, together with a feature about one of its findings: a stellar tidal disruption event, courtesy of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
China's Five Year Space Plan.
Steven Hobbs (University of New South Wales, Sydney) - Hands-off Field Work: Comparing human and robotic methods of gathering terrain data.
A preview of European Space Agency (ESA) missions in 2022.
Naveen Kodikara (RMIT University, Melbourne) - Efficacy of Global Ionospheric Maps.

Planet Earth Episode 30:
The TROPICS mission

William Blackwell (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) - An overview of TROPICS

A feature on the TROPICS mission from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
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February 02, 20222022.02.02 | A New Era of Space Exploration
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 2 February 2022:
Upulie Divisekera (Monash University) - A New Era of Space Exploration

James Webb Space Telescope - The next-generation infra-red observatory has entered orbit around L2, the second Lagrange Point

Swift Observatory enters safe mode - Also, a feature from the Goddard Space Flight Centre, in Greenbelt, Maryland describes one of the discoveries during the Swift Observatory's 17 year mission.

Planet Earth Episode 29:
Enrico Palermo (Australian Space Agency) - Australian Earth Observation from Space Roadmap

Karen St. Germain (NASA) - Towards the Earth System Observatory

Ceddric David (JPL) - Plan A: There is no Plan B

Gavin Schmidt et al (Goddard Institute for Space Studies & Goddard Space Flight Center feature) - Global Temperatures 2021
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December 15, 20212021.12.15 | Astronomy in Space: The Great Observatories
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 15 December 2021:
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) satellite with Tiffany Russell-Lockhart, a systems engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama

A primer on why astronomers need to see the non-visible wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum

Dr Ellen Stofan, Smithsonian Under Secretary for Science and Research and Dr Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, discuss XPIE at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): A next-generation infra-red observatory is prepared for launch

James Webb Space Telescope by the Chromatics

Revealing the universe with the JWST: a feature from the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland

The Operations Control Centre for the Hubble Space Telescope: a feature from the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland

The Chandra X-ray Observatory: Celebrating the 8th and 15th anniversaries of the telescope

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
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FAQs about The Space Show:

How many episodes does The Space Show have?

The podcast currently has 227 episodes available.