Show Notes
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 18 February 2026: Space Show News: AtSpace conducts successful launch of Australian-made A01 rocket at the Southern Launch Koonibba Test Range. On 27 November 2025, AtSpace, a Brisbane-based rocket manufacturer, entered the rocketry record books by successfully launching their Australian-made A01 rocket higher than any other Australian commercial rocket has gone before. Private spacecraft will give NASA's Swift space telescope an orbital boost Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies has scored a contract to raise the altitude of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been losing altitude due to atmospheric drag.
IAC 2025 Opening Ceremony — Part 3 Historical memories from Paul Scully-Powers, Katherine Bennell-Pegg and Roger Franzen, and the presentation of the IAF World Space Award to the Chang'e 6 Team. (Inserts courtesy IAC & CGTN)
Space Show News: Landslides on the Moon
Turn Back Time: Arrokoth New Horizons team members Alan Stern, Cathy Olkin, Carly Howett and Jeff Moore respond to reporters' questions on the day after the 2019 January 1 flyby of the Kuiper Belt asteroid Arrokoth. (Courtesy JHU)
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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 16 September 2026: Tasmania and Space with Prof. Simon Ellingsen, Dean of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania: Aurorae Ionosphere VLF radio astronomy Tracking antenna from the Orroral Valley Explorer 50 Halca Cassini-Huygens Juice Kaguya Globalstar SpaceX New antenna Space weather Space domain awareness Asteroid observations Future activities. (Recorded at a meeting of the Space Association of Australia, Melbourne)
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 9 September 2026:
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 2 September 2026: (Episode artwork credit: NASA/John Kraus) Roman Space Telescope Launched Roman Space Telescope description and launch; origins of the telescope; commissioning process. (Audio inserts courtesy GSFC, KSC)