On The Space Show for Wednesday, 29 May 2024:

Australian Space Industry News:

* Melbourne University's SpIRIT satellite survives global solar storm, returns picture from space

* Astronaut graduation ceremony for Katherine Bennell-Pegg (Inserts courtesy ESA)

* Gilmour Space still awaiting launch permit for its Eris orbital launch vehicle.

Planet 9: New evidence suggests that a planet orbits in trans-Neptunian space.

X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) and Resolve: Resolve is an X-ray microcalorimeter developed by NASA and the Goddard Space Flight Center.

eROSITA:

* Findings by the eROSITA instrument on the Russian Spectrum Roentgen Gamma satellite of a very hot, ionized gas surrounding the Milky Way galaxy

* Also resolves one of the cosmological tensions regarding the clumpiness of the universe.

Update on China’s Chang'e 6 mission

Planet Earth — Episode 63:

* Launch of PREFIRE 1 and EarthCARE. (Inserts courtesy Rocket Lab and ESA)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 22 May 2024:

Planet Earth: How space technology helps us understand our home planet — S4E62

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 15 May 2024:

Australian Space News:

* The 2024 Federal Budget

* Landsat Next

Chang'e 6: A progress report on China’s lunar far-side sample-return mission, and of the Pakistani iCube-Qamar lunar orbiter.

Planetary Report:

* The findings of the Lucy spacecraft at asteroid binary Dinkinesh/Selam

* MAVEN's findings when the solar wind disappeared at Mars. (Inserts courtesy GSFC)

Planet Earth — Episode 61: Preparations by Rocket Lab to launch two Prefire (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment) from New Zealand. (Note: LandsatNext was covered in the Australian Space News segment of this episode).

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 May 2024:

Australian Space News:

* The successful launch of HyImpulse's SR75 paraffin-fuelled suborbital rocket from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range in South Australia

* Alan Shepard and "Light This Candle"

* Funding for Australian-Indian space projects. (Inserts courtesy SDU)

Boeing CST-100 Starliner first crewed orbital flight test:

* The stand-down of the launch attempt due to a Centaur valve problem

* A profile of astronaut Sunita Williams

* How the CST-100 will land.

China’s Chang'e 6 lunar sample return mission:

* Descriptions of the Chang'e 6 spacecraft, including the foreign instruments and sub-satellite

* Mission launch coverage. (Inserts courtesy CGTN)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 1 May 2024:

CST 100 Starliner and Other Matters:

* The crew exchange on the China Space Station

* Chang'e 6 due for launch

* Meet the crew of the CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test (Inserts courtesy JSC).

Australian Space News:

* SR75 paraffin rocket due for launch at the Koonibba Test Range

* Gilmour Space Technologies’ Eris orbital space vehicle continues to await a launch license

* Valiant Space's VS-1 thruster on Optimus satellite (Inserts courtesy Ch7, ABC).

* Andrew Uscinski (CEO, Founder, Valiant Space, Brisbane) on his company's lunar ambitions. (Recorded at a meeting of the Space Association of Australia, South Melbourne)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 24 April 2024:

Marking the 10th anniversary of the Rosetta mission, we continue the story of the arrival and completion of the Rosetta and Philae missions at comet 67P, Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in vox-pops, a poem and music. Also a report on how the comet was formed. (Inserts courtesy ESA)

Australian Space News:

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.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 10 April 2024:

Marking the 20th anniversary of the start of the Rosetta and Philae missions to comet 67P, Churyumov-Gerasimenko, we tell the story including vox-pops, poetry and music. (Inserts courtesy ESA)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 3 April 2024:

On this bonus episode of The Space Show:

Australian Space Industry 2024 — Federal Space Grants 2024 — The Details of twelve funding grants awarded by the Australian Space Agency.

Funding boost to grow Aussie space sector

Twelve new Australian space projects are supported that will build capability in our local space sector, as well as respond to key challenges and opportunities like climate change.

The 12 projects, which align with NASA’s Artemis mission, will share in more than $9 million in funding to help drive innovation and support cutting-edge Australian science.

The Moon to Mars grants will assist these Australian companies to enter global space supply chains.

Among the projects being supported are: