Trekzone • Talkin' Science
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...
Friday, January 20 2023
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China launches three secret satellites, we dive into the Milky Way’s supernova remnants, diverting lightning with lasers and an asteroid photobombs hubble!
Friday, January 13 2023
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Orion Vehicle Manager Frank Lin beams in to give us the low down on what’s next for the first human rated spacecraft in fifty years to reach the Moon.
Wednesday, January 11 2023
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Gilmour Space gear up for two launches this year, we beam over to NASA to hear more about the Orion capsule as it’s heatshield is inspected. Virgin Orbit fails to...
Thursday, January 5 2023
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Remembering Apollo 7’s Walter Cunningham, Skykraft Launches, a coronal mass ejection recorded, two lunar mission successes and we peer behind Sharpless 54…
Saturday, December 31 2022
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So many incredible discoveries made in the realm of science and space this year, milestones too for space travel both here and abroad. Join us as we look back on...
Friday, December 16 2022
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Southern Launch have announced today the pathway forward following the minor leak of oxidiser from VS02 yesterday. 8am Sunday the new launch window opens for VS03, which is the all-South...
Wednesday, December 14 2022
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Southern Launch are gearing up for their second launch from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex. On launch eve, and standing next to the launch pad, CEO and friend of...
Wednesday, December 14 2022
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Welcome to Talkin’ Science on location at the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex in South Australia… today, delayed launch, Artemis returns, a Canadian meteorite from the Oort cloud, meet the...
