On The Space Show for Wednesday, 5 June 2024:

Space Show News

Planet Earth — Episode 64:

* Launch of PREFIRE 2

* Earth science missions launched by Rocket Lab (Inserts courtesy RL, RNZ)

An update on China’s Chang'e 6 and Chang'e 7 missions: Chang'e 6 retrieves a sample from the lunar far-side

Australian Space Industry News:

* Esper's plans to recover from the loss of its first "Over The Rainbow" mission aboard the failed Optimus satellite

* 60th anniversary of the launch of the first Blue Streak from Woomera on the Europa 1 F-1 test flight. (Inserts courtesy SL, ESAL)

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: