On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 January 2025:

Mars Sample Return Mission:

From NASA HQ, Bill Nelson (Administrator) and Nicky Fox (Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate) outline a new plan to retrieve the Mars surface samples collected by the Perseverance rover.

Mars Sample Return, a joint campaign being planned by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), would see multiple missions and components, with the goal of bringing Mars rock, loose surface material, and gas samples to Earth for detailed laboratory analysis.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 18 December 2024:

Australian Space Industry 2024 — Part 21 (final)

* DSTG Buccaneer liquid lens

* Australia - New Zealand Collaborative Space Program

* Varda to land in Koonibba test range in South Australia

* Duckweed in space

* Starlink satellites interfere with the Square Kilometre Array

* Australia - Greece space agreement

* Lunasa to fly its StarLogic Rendezvous Proximity Operations payload aboard the Space Machines' Optimus 2 satellite.

Perseverance out of Jezero:

The Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, has climbed out of the Jezero crater reports Ken Farley (Project Scientist, Caltech, California). (Insert courtesy AGU)

Ingenuity Crash Investigation Report:

Travis Brown (Chief Engineer, Ingenuity, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena) delivers the first aviation crash report from Mars, about the fate of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity. (Insert courtesy AGU)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 11 December 2024:

Space Show News:

* Artemis II and Artemis III delayed to no earlier than 2026 and 2027 respectively

Australian Space Industry 2024 — Part 20:

* Fleet Space Technologies and its involvement in the SEVEN SISTERS project – Australia’s First Lunar Exploration Mission

* HEO Robotics

* Impulse Space

* Rio Tinto

* Kanyini

* Paladin Space

* Australian Space Agency sustainability policy

* ZBLAN

* ADF Red Star

* SmartSat CRC Maya Nula.

(Audio inserts courtesy SD, APAC)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 4 December 2024:

Australian Space Industry 2024 - Part 19

Tim Parsons, Co-Founder X-Lab:

We take a look back at the state of the Australian space industry before the establishment of the Australian Space Agency — has much changed?

* Changing global space trends; start-up companies questioning space regulatory requirements; and educational needs.

* Defence space in Australia.

(Recorded at a meeting of the Space Association of Australia, Elsternwick)

Twinkle:

The University of Southern Queensland is involved in the commercial Twinkle astronomy satellite planned for launch in 2025. (Inserts courtesy BSSL, USQ)

Hypersonic test vehicles:

* The Hypersonix Launch Systems DART hypersonic test vehicle is to be launched on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket.

* Meanwhile, Gilmour Space is entering the hypersonics market with its own hypersonic flight test service scheduled to launch in 2025.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 November 2024:

Australian Space Industry 2024 - Part 18:

• iLAuNCH
• UK-Australia Space Bridge
• Myriota.

(Inserts courtesy ABC, BNSC, SMC, iLAuNCH, Grundfos)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 20 November 2024:

Solar System Missions — Part 3:

A survey of the currently active spacecraft studying our Solar System. Today, Jupiter, Kuiper Belt and Uranus.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 13 November 2024:

Try SCE to Aux:

Marking the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 12 mission, with a detailed account of the lightning strikes during ascent, and profiles of astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean.

When Shirley Bassey met Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad.

A brief history of space tracking in Australia by space historian, Colin MacKellar.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 6 November 2024:

Australian Space Industry 2024 — Part 17:

• Southern Launch's Whalers Way launch site approved
• Gilmour Space receives Eris orbital launch permit
• JP9102 project for a military geostationary communications satellite cancelled
• STaR Shot overview (Rod Smith, Leader, STaR Shot, DSTG, Adelaide)
• Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG’s) small satellite programme
• Skykraft forges ahead with its aeronautical satellite constellation.

(Audio inserts courtesy ABC, Sky, DSTG, SIAA)