Show Notes
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 9 September 2026:
Automated space object identification using RMIT's Robotic Optical Observatory (ROO) Telescope An interview at the November 2025 Australian Space Research Conference with Cody Jeynes, an undergraduate student at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Roman Space Telescope Descriptions of the Roman's Wide Field Camera and Coronagraph, and the role of STScI and IPAC in handling, storing, and distributing the data sent by the telescope.
Turn Back Time: * Fifty-five years ago, in 1971, Lunokhod 1 was still trundling across the Moon * Fifty years ago, the Raduga 2 communications satellite was launched * Seventeen years ago, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) began using its new survey telescope, VISTA. (Inserts RM, VOA, ESO)
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