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Perth’s World Class Robotics Facility

As part of the, now officially open, Australian Space Agency, the Australian Remote Operations for Space and Earth facility will create around 1500 jobs and play a key role in the long standing Australia NASA partnership, developing technologies to assist missions to the moon and beyond.

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Launching a New Era for Australia

Today, in our new expansion of Talkin’ Science, Dr Brad Tucker and Matt dive into the detail of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s opening of the Australian Space Agency headquarters.

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It’s Pluto’s Birthday

Plenty to talk about in today’s Talkin Science with Dr Brad Tucker. We’ve got the details on SpaceX’s latest Starlink launch, another resupply mission successfully on the way to the Space Station, Pluto’s birthday and more!

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More Internet Satellites Launch

SpaceX’s Starlink project has some serious competition with OneWeb launching 34 satellites last week in it’s effort it put over 600 internet-beaming capable probes in a low Earth orbit. Another solar observatory sets a course for our closest star and we learn a little more about Boeing’s Starliner troubles on today’s Talkin’ Science – it’s February 11 2020.

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Australia’s Summer of Extremes

10 News First’s Queensland Weather Expert Josh Holt joins Matt in today’s podcast to talk about the weather leading up to, and caused by, these large scale bushfires.

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First Thoughts on Star Trek: Picard

Larry Nemecek joins Matt today for our first video podcast of the year! We’re diving into the first thoughts of Star Trek: Picard which premiered a few days ago across the world. SPOILER FREE

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Starship Intrepid Powers Ahead

We’re back with our main show for 2020 with Starship Intrepid’s Nick Cook stopping by the Trekzone mic to update us on his three fan film projects currently in various stages of production.

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The Slowest Rotating ‘Cosmic Lighthouse’ Yet Discovered

Distant neutron stars typically spin a full 360 degrees within seconds. However, a new type of ‘radio transient object’ – so called as they are detected in radio waves – has emerged that rotate much more slowly. In the time it takes this cosmic lighthouse to rotate you could watch Interstellar twice before it completes a full spin.

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Mapping Ripples In A Cosmic Ocean

An international study led by Australian astronomers has created the most detailed maps of gravitational waves across the universe to date in three new research papers. The study also produced the largest ever galactic-scale gravitational wave detector and found further evidence of a “background” of these invisible yet incredibly fast ripples in space that can help unlock some major mysteries of the universe.

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How Saturn’s Rings Might Be Keeping A Youthful Appearance

Even though Saturn’s rings appear clean and young, they may be as old as the planet itself according to international researchers. It was previously thought that impacts with small rocky debris travelling through space – called micrometeoroids – would dirty and darken the rings over time, but in 2004 the Cassini spacecraft revealed the rings to be clean and bright suggesting that they are not very old.

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