Friday, December 1 2023
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Hypersonix officially welcomes their new manufacturing facility. The CSIRO calls for proposals for telescope time across the country and six sub-Neptunes found, which have likely remained unchanged for a couple...
Thursday, November 9 2023
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Oxygen on Venus… an incredible find backed up seventeen times. wearable tech helping astronauts find themselves and a rogue star thought to heading our way now isn’t… the reanalysis that’s...
Wednesday, November 1 2023
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Australia and the US sign a Technology Safeguards Agreement, the culmination of a whole-of-government effort to secure an important path forward to expanding the Australian Space Industry. Plus SmartSat SRC’s...
Thursday, October 19 2023
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NASA announces asteroid Bennu contains carbon and water, a comet explosion may have kick started agriculture in Syria and the light pollution from artificial satellites has now reached the point...
Monday, September 25 2023
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A successful crash landing back to Earth. Seven years and a handful of days after it was launched, OSIRIS-REx returns home with the all important samples of asteroid Bennu. Within...
Thursday, September 14 2023
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Hydrogen surrounding NGC 4632 could make it a rare polar ring galaxy. A bubble of galaxies has been found – measuring a billion light-years across, and Vladimir Putin and Kim...
Wednesday, August 30 2023
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Chandrayaan-3 Takes The Lunar Temperature. A New Report Finds Massive Gender Bias in Australian High Schools and Landslides on Mars Indicate Water Surrounded Olympus Mons It’s Wednesday August 30 2023...
Thursday, August 24 2023
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Second time’s a charm. Chandrayaan-3 makes India the first country to reach the Moon’s southern pole. Artificial Intelligence takes the pressure off … finding a Near Earth Asteroid has now...
Thursday, July 20 2023
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It’s the 29th week of 2023. In research led by a West Aussie, a new type of stellar object has been discovered. India launches Chandrayaan Three, their second attempt to...
Tuesday, July 11 2023
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Southern Launch’s new corporate look, possible fingerprints of gravitational waves, a planet that shouldn’t exist, and just what the heck is THAT on the moon?
Wednesday, June 7 2023
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It’s Talkin’ Science’s two hundred and first edition. That means we have to look back at four years of the show, plus Cargo Dragon resupplies the space station, the reasons...
Thursday, June 1 2023
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Welcome to the 200th Talkin’ Science. A test for the SETI network continues, plus we now have to Question our understanding of fast radio bursts, studying lightning on Jupiter and...
Friday, May 19 2023
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The 15th biannual space forum was recently held in Adelaide, the home of Australia’s space industry. Trekzone was invited to attend and I spent the day learning about the incredible...
Thursday, May 18 2023
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Fast Radio Burst research, testing new meta-optical surfaces, a record break amateur rocket launch and Artemis 2 training begins…
Tuesday, May 9 2023
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The 15th Australian Space Forum. James Webb snaps an asteroid belt, China’s mysterious space plane and Virgin Galactic announces it’s getting back into flying.
Thursday, May 4 2023
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It was a big April for our friends at Southern Launch. From signing a memorandum of understanding to retrieve payloads at Koonibba (and relaunch them from Whalers Way) to gearing...
Wednesday, May 3 2023
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Southern Launch gears up to receive satellites at Koonibba, environmental groups sue the FAA over Starship, astronomers hunt for pulsars and Jupiter and Saturn may be contributing to their moons...
Friday, April 28 2023
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Australia’s largest rocket testing facility gets the green light. An Aussie startup’s revolutionary Earth observation computer and the fall out from that Starship launch continues…
Thursday, April 20 2023
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For the first time in almost a decade, a solar eclipse graces the Australian skies on April 20. We’re live for the full duration thanks to Time and Date, the...
Wednesday, April 19 2023
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Starship delayed, the first solar eclipse to grace Australian skies since 2014, a student led lunar rover and some fascinating news from deep out in the universe.
Wednesday, April 12 2023
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A coastal town in Western Australia gears up for a tourist influx as JUICE prepares to get it’s launch down to the second. Plus will Starship go orbital and a...
Tuesday, April 11 2023
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When Artemis II flies next year and breaks free from Earth’s gravity, they’ll be talking via one of three relay stations in the Deep Space Communication Network. Goldstone in California,...
Friday, April 7 2023
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A second coronal hole has been detected on the sun as Gilmour Space continues construction efforts at the Bowen Spaceport. Plus – NASA announces the Artemis 2 crew… our deep...
Friday, March 31 2023
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80’s and 90’s Aussie kids will remember Ranger Stacey from Channel 7’s Agro’s Cartoon Connection and Channel 10’s Totally Wild. She dropped by to chat during the World Science Festival!
Wednesday, March 29 2023
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Dan Ilic is an Aussie comedian who has been spending his recent time creating his podcast A Rational Fear, in Brisbane for the World Science Festival we caught up with...
Wednesday, March 29 2023
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An Australian mission to study the Proxima Star System, Oumuamua’s odd propulsion, that leaky Soyuz and NASA’s plans to explore Titan. Plus, we take a quick dive into our week...
Monday, March 27 2023
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The James Webb Space Telescope has been smashing it out of the park with incredible data since it launched over a year ago. Armed with press passes and a desire...
Tuesday, March 21 2023
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NASA and Australia confirm a strategic lunar partnership, Gilmour Space signs on to get a leg up in orbit, revolutionising communication with satellites, has evidence of subsurface oceans been found...
Wednesday, February 22 2023
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An Aussie initiative to repair broken satellites, Crew 6 arrives, an asteroid fly by, China’s martian rover remains dormant and NASA agrees to launch Israel’s first space telescope.
Friday, February 17 2023
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Stopping climate change… with moon dust? An X-Class Solar Flare, studying Venus, a Damaged Soyuz and strange spokes on Saturn.
Wednesday, February 8 2023
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Moving in to UAP territory – what the US is telling the world about the Chinese balloon. Our last view of the green comet, rocket launches could be punching a...
Wednesday, January 25 2023
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NASA prepares to test a nuclear powered engine, the meteorite that crashed in to a UK driveway reveals it’s secrets and Earth’s core may have just reversed it’s direction of...
