Spaced Out
Astronomy Educator David Britten features on the fortnightly Spaced Out segment on 95bFM Drive where he chats all things space science, Stardome and stargazing.
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26 November 2019
Government funding for NZ space mission control centre
Japanese spacecraft heads home with asteroid samples
Voyager 2 data raises questions about interstellar space
Supernovas more powerful than anyone imagines
India confirms its Vikram lander crashed on the Moon
Black holes may be completely different to what we thought
The 11 biggest unanswered questions about dark matter
Most massive neutron star almost shouldn’t exist – further reading here
Last transit of Mercury until 2032
Russia keeping cause of ISS hole secret
LRO fails to find India’s ‘Vikram’ lander on Moon’s surface
Asteroid impact on Jupiter confirmed
India finds lost lunar lander – further reading here and here
Cometary interloper from another solar system
Thousands of tardigrades litter the moon after crash
NASA activates deep space atomic clock
US military assesses strategic value of cislunar space
NASA used to think female astronauts needed makeup
Aussie prospector finds large rare meteorite 4.6 billion years old
Virgin Galactic space port opens for tourists
Bernie Sanders will tell about aliens if elected President
Rocket Lab to catch booster rockets with a helicopter
Rocket Lab eighth flight launches four satellites
Chang’e-4 rover sends stunning photos of Moon’s far side
Another comet falls into the Sun
Satellites launched from NZ will be tracked to monitor traffic and debris
Concern over Starlink satellite failures
Astronomers very concerned about SpaceX’s megaconstellation
Dark sky astro tourism centre opens in Tekapo
Curiosity Rover 7-year anniversary on Mars
European Mars lander suffers parachute damage in test