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Episode 112 – Brown Dwarfs, Dark Matter and Dark Energy
March 15, 2024

Euclid, a @esa science mission, will shed light on both dark matter and dark energy. It was launched in July 2023 and arrived in its L2 orbit a month later. It has just two instruments which will prod

Episode 111 – Chandrayaan-3
November 30, 2023

Following the successful landing of @isro #Chandrayaan-3, Associate Project Director Kalpana Kalahasti was the first female to speak at the ISRO live stream event. As a seasoned engineer, Kalahasti co

Episode 110 – Humanity’s spiritual destiny and the 100 year starship
November 10, 2023

The 100 year starship project @100YSS aims to get humanity to develop the capability to travel to the stars in one hundred years time. It started in 2012 headed by Dr Mae Jemison the first woman of c

Episode 109 – The Antikythera Mechanism with Prof Xenophon Moussas
December 16, 2022

I first came across the Antikythera Mechanism just over a decade ago. It is still the most incredible artefact from history. It is as out of place in our time as William Shakespeare using an Iphone or

Episode 108 – NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission
November 25, 2022

The Clarke Exobelt is the name that Dr Hector Socas-Navarro has given to perhaps the largest structure humans have built. A collection of satellites in earth orbit (geosynchronous) 36,000 km radius.

Episode 107 – SETI’s new tool – Technosignatures
November 18, 2022

The Clarke Exobelt is the name that Dr Hector Socas-Navarro has given to perhaps the largest structure humans have built. A collection of satellites in earth orbit (geosynchronous) 36,000 km radius.

Episode 106 – ESA’s new science missions
November 11, 2022

European Space Agency's Dr Paul McNamara was studying low-frequency gravitational waves just before they were discovered in 2015. Now he is the astronomy and astrophysics coordinator for the European

Episode 105 – Return to Titan – Dragonfly
November 04, 2022

Dr Ralph Lorenz speaks about Dragonfly, a return mission to land on Titan. This mission, for which he is the mission architect, is like no other. It is not really a lander or rover but a quadcopter th

Episode 104 – William Leitch. The forgotten Scottish Rocket Pioneer
October 28, 2022

When it comes to the pioneers of rocketry, tradition has it that it was Tsiolkovsky, Goddard and Oberth. in this episode, author Rob Godwin talks about William Leitch from Scotland. He was writing abo

Episode 103 -Observing the Solar System with the JWST
October 21, 2022

Astronomer Dr Connor Nixon @shamrocketeer speaks about the @nasawebb program to observe solar system objects using the #JWST led by @hbhammel