Powering ahead in 2021, SpaceX has performed a courier service for clients wanting to get their satellites into orbit at a fraction of the cost.
Axiom Space in conjunction with SpaceX have assembled the first all private crew to head to the International Space Station in the next year.
The world’s most powerful single-port hybrid rocket engine has been test fired at Gilmour Space’s test lab on the Gold Coast. The engine will power the first and second stages of the Eris orbital vehicle which is slated for a 35-kilo payload launch in 2022.
The Hope Mars mission becomes the first in a series of independent missions to the red planet expected to arrive over the coming months.
On January 31 1961, Ham was the first terrestrial being to be launched into orbit and return safely to the Earth.
A pair of Adelaide-based space companies have partnered with the South Australian government to manufacture and launch it’s first cubesat.
The University of Melbourne is honouring 65, 000 years of astronomy with the first Indigenous Astronomy undergraduate course in Australia.
Following the American space agencies successful landing on asteroid Bennu in October last year, the plans for the return voyage of OSIRIS-REx have been announced.
Welcome to the new look Trekzone. The recent server move and upgrade took us down a very bumpy, very long road but we’ve emerged out the other side all the better for the experience.
Several countries sign on to NASA’s Artemis Accords, a new study suggests the moon helped Earth survive the sun’s teenage years and a very close call for two bits of space junk over Antarctica.
Southern Launch Australia is one of a bunch of companies pioneering the Aussie Space Industry and they’re gearing up for a massive 2021. Launch director Alexander Linossier joins Matt for a chat about what the future holds for this Aussie company.
It’s Tuesday September 29 2020. This is Talkin’ Science. Detailed images emerge of M-87’s heart, a supermassive black hole, Artemis is on track for a return to the moon according to NASA and analysing archive data pays off for researchers… finding three salt water lakes on Mars.
Gilmour Space on the Gold Coast is another pioneer of the Aussie space industry and they’re powering ahead with their hybrid rocket design. Today, co-CEO Adam Gilmour zooms in for A Trekzone Conversation about their company.
As we gear up for next week’s crewed Dragon test flight, NASA is looking further ahead by putting out the rules for companies and countries collaborating on the Artemis missions to the moon. Interestingly the US hasn’t signed the treaty as yet…
SpaceX and Blue Origin have been awarded contracts by NASA to aid in their Artemis missions to the moon.
Dr Brad Tucker drops by with details of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, SpaceX and Blue Origin winning contracts for NASA’s Artemis missions to the moon and Hubble spotting comet Atlas’ breakup as the power of the sun got too much for the iceball.
Curtin University in Perth has joined forces with NASA, the University of Miami, San José State University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology
As NASA prepares for the first crewed Moon landing in more than five decades, the agency has identified an updated set of nine potential landing regions near the lunar South Pole for its Artemis III mission.
Those searching for life on Mars should look within its ice, according to international researchers.
The most common types of meteorites that reach Earth are likely to have come from just a few asteroid breakup events, according to two international research papers.
Southern Launch and Varda Space Industries, an American microgravity-enabled life sciences company, have received authorisation from the Australian Government for a series of returns at the Koonibba Test Range.
Southern Launch has been granted all approvals for the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex located on the tip of the Eyre Peninsula.
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Curtin University in Perth has joined forces with NASA, the University of Miami, San José State University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology
As NASA prepares for the first crewed Moon landing in more than five decades, the agency has identified an updated set of nine potential landing regions near the lunar South Pole for its Artemis III mission.
Those searching for life on Mars should look within its ice, according to international researchers.
The most common types of meteorites that reach Earth are likely to have come from just a few asteroid breakup events, according to two international research papers.
Southern Launch and Varda Space Industries, an American microgravity-enabled life sciences company, have received authorisation from the Australian Government for a series of returns at the Koonibba Test Range.
Southern Launch has been granted all approvals for the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex located on the tip of the Eyre Peninsula.
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