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Listen to or download the 9 programs in the Pennine Pioneers of Science series, transmitted on allfm.org in the 1st quarter of 2024. The post Pennine Pioneers of Science on Allfm.org appeared ...

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If you want to learn about the life and work of rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth, there is only one place to visit. The Hermann Oberth Space Travel Museum in the German Town of Feucht, near Nurnberg...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode113_hermann_oberth/

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...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-112-brown-dwarfs-dark-matter-and-dark-energy/

Three stories in the news related to the Indian Space Programme 1. The ISRO Chief ISRO chief S Somanath was diagnosed with more than 6 months ago. He saw him The post ISRO in the news appeare...

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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, Kalahas...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode111-chandrayaan-3/

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 ...

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India announces plans for space station and crewed mission to the Moon. These are announcements not @isro funded plans with timelines. The post India to build a Space Station – Bharatiya Anta...

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Preparing for the #gaganyaan mission. India's human spaceflight programme. An in-flight abort test by @isro on 21st October 2023. The post ISRO’s Inflight abort test for Gaganyaan appeared f...

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In preparing for Human Spaceflight @isro will test an in-flight abort test on 21st Oct 2023. Back in September 1983, Rakesh Sharma saw in person a pad abort emergency that saved the lives of two ...

https://astrotalkuk.org/isros-human-spaceflight-preparing-for-gaganyaan-test-vehicle-tv-d1/

India signed the USA's Artemis Accords. Why did India do that, what was in it for the USA and why did it happen then? First publish in https://twitter.com/ROOM__Space The post Why India signed ...

https://astrotalkuk.org/why-india-signed-the-usas-artemis-accords-and-why-now/

I created a couple of audiobooks using Google AI-generated voices. Surprisingly good and with time this technology will only get better! Some discounts for books, books and audiobooks are below....

https://astrotalkuk.org/ai-generated-audiobooks-discount-codes/

On Wednesday, 12th April 1961, a bright and sunny spring morning, an air force pilot of the USSR launched into space using a modified intercontinental ballistic missile. Exactly three months late...

https://astrotalkuk.org/the-day-the-cosmonaut-came-to-manchester/

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 Ipho...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-109-antikythera-mechanism/

Some pictures of the Tiede Observatory as seen from Puerto De la Cruz (about an hour's drive away). Mars was obscured by the Moon for about an hour (approx between 4 am and 5 am) on Thursday 8th ...

https://astrotalkuk.org/tiede-observatory-and-mars-occultation/

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 radi...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-108-europa-clipper-mission/

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 radi...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-107-seti-technosignatures/

Free online Open University Course and get access to a professional class telescope. Here are some of my images on @pirateOU operated by @openuniversity The post Astrophotography with a remote ...

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Black Friday 2022 discounts voucher codes below BF2022_virtual for 66% discount on ebooks BF2022_physical for 33% discount on paperback and hardback The post Black Friday discounts – 33% a...

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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 Euro...

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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 quadcopt...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-105-return-to-titan-dragonfly/

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 writin...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-104-williamleitch/

Astronomer Dr Connor Nixon @shamrocketeer speaks about the @nasawebb program to observe solar system objects using the #JWST led by @hbhammel The post Episode 103 -Observing the Solar System wi...

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In 1972, Harrison Schmitt became the first (and so far only), scientist to walk on the surface of the Moon. Since then many scientists have brought their scientific insights to understanding to t...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-102-martian-geology/

Niklas Hedman, the Acting Director of the @UN Office for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNOOSA) talks about @UNOOSA ongoing role in facilitating and promoting the peaceful uses of space in Low...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-101-peacefuluses/

Some of the highlights include Bill Nelson – NASAExpects Boing’s Starliner to start taking NASA astronauts to the ISS next yearRegarding relations with Russia’s space program. Nelson recall...

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Sandra Benitez-Herrera talks about the opportunities for teachers and students made available by the European Space Agency 's CESAR (Cooperation through Education in Science and Astronomy Researc...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-100-sandra-benitez-herrera/

New Book - Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites. The book describes primary launch sites around the world including some that are historically significant but no longer operating (e.g Peenamunde) a...

https://astrotalkuk.org/new-book-atlas-of-space-rocket-launch-sites/

A chance meeting with James van Allen led Stamatios Krimigis to build instruments for Mariner 3 and 4. Eventually became a Principle Investigator for the charged particle instrument on voyager wh...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-99-professor-stamatios-krimigis/

Founded by Phil Cleator on Friday 13 October 1933 , the British Interplanetary Society exists to this day. BIS members include Arthur C Clarke, Carl Sagan, George Bernard Shaw, and Robert Heinlei...

https://astrotalkuk.org/pam-reid-speaks-on-bbc-radio-merseyside-about-her-fathers-memoir-my-personal-history-of-the-british-interplanetary-society/

Three weeks after its extraordinarily ambitious mission, the crew of Apollo 11 splashed down in the North Pacific, and the Indian Space research Organisation (ISRO) came into being on 15 August 1...

https://astrotalkuk.org/birth-of-the-indian-space-research-organisation/

Leslie Johnson wrote this manuscript between 1974 and 1979. It records the BIS story during the Liverpool years. It includes his reflections on their collective 1930's dream realised in 1969 - th...

https://astrotalkuk.org/leslie-johnson-memoir/

Occasionally, a book comes along that changes how you live. This is one of those. It is concerned with something we all do, all day, every day. Breath. The central thesis of the book is breathing...

https://astrotalkuk.org/book-review-breath-by-james-nestor/

Manchester and Liverpool share a unique history in the development of rocket technology. The desire for spaceflight was promoted by the British Interplanetary Society, founded in Liverpool in 193...

https://astrotalkuk.org/public-talk-rocket-societies-in-liverpool-and-manchester-in-the-1930s/

If you are one of 3000+ new entrants to the amateur radio hobby with Foundation Licence, there’s a good it was a chance consequence of the Covid-19 lockdown. I share my experience including exa...

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Delighted to see that my book “India’s Forgotten Rocket Pioneer” has been awarded the “Large Silver Award” by the Christchurch (New Zealand) Philatelic Society. Singh, Gurbir (United Ki...

https://astrotalkuk.org/award-winning-book-indias-forgotten-rocket-pioneer/

Astrophotographer Nik Szymanek shares his unique perspective on how astrophotography has evolved since the 1980s when he first started. We speak about software and robotic telescopes @telescopeli...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-98-astrophotography-with-nik-szymanek/

Following an unexpected meeting with USA's first Astronaut, Alan Shepard in around 1962. In this episode he recounts a Moon-Bounce experiments with @Nasa. The post Episode 97 Bob Heil’s Moon ...

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Suddenly, at 16:51 on 4th October 2021, Facebook disappeared from the Internet for all the 3 billion users no matter where in the world they were. There was no warning, and the experience was ide...

https://astrotalkuk.org/facebook-outage-the-bigger-they-are-the-harder-they-fall/

Since the beginning of human civilisation, people have looked up at the night sky and wondered – are we alone? Science and technology of the 20th century has made it possible to try to address ...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-96-seti-the-search-so-far-with-jill-tarter/

The latest book from author Brian Harvey @BrianHarveyAut1, this is probably the first English language analysis of the individuals, institutions and early space projects that would eventually le...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-95-european-space-cooperation-degaulle-to-exomars-with-brian-harvey/

How has the ¢SETI evolved over the last 6 decades and especially what can modern technology allow today that was not possible then? With Jill Tarter from @SETIInstitute The post Episode 94 Set...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-94-seti-techniques-and-technology-with-jill-tarter/

War was primarily the story of the USSR and the USA and their respective allies.  By chronicling in meticulous detail European-Russian Space cooperation, Brian Harvey has uncovered a strategic r...

https://astrotalkuk.org/european-russian-space-cooperation-from-de-gaulle-to-exomars-book-review/

By popular demand - its back! Organised by the@weaadulted 2 hours per week for 10 weeks. Starts in September 2021 The post WEA Online Courses starting in September 2021 appeared first on Astro...

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How has the Indian Space Program fared through the Covid-19 lockdown? In this hour long webinar including Q&A. The webinar is free but you need to register here https://www.crowdcast.io/e/isro-un...

https://astrotalkuk.org/isro-under-lockdown/

By popular demand - its back! Organised by the Workers Educational Association, 2 hours every Thursday between 5pm-7pm over 6 weeks starting on 20/05/2021. The course will examine the lives and c...

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There are around 3000 operational satellites around Earth right now. Just over 50 were designed, built and launched from India. Collectively they provide services for communication, television, n...

https://astrotalkuk.org/india-in-space/

Here is the opening couple of paragraphs to my 2011 book, on the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. Also a timeline of is 5 days in England. Three months later Gagarin came to Manch...

https://astrotalkuk.org/first-human-spaceflight-sixtieth-anniversary/

Now that Perseverance has arrived safely, we can look forward to some exciting images and scientific data in the coming weeks. Some links worth keeping an eye on include. NASA The post Mars �...

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This may be of interest. As part of the @WEAaudulted "Festival of Ideas" I will be present a series of four two-hour online Zoom presentations 22Feb- Mars, 1 Mar -Gagarin, 8Mar-Seti 15Mar-UK Spac...

https://astrotalkuk.org/mars-gagarin-seti-and-british-space-programme/

On 14th January 2005, the Huygens probe landed on Titan. Saturns and the solar systems largest Moon. This was a joint NAS/ESA mission called Cassini-Huygens. Whilst Huygens landed on Titan, Cassi...

https://astrotalkuk.org/episode-93-exploring-the-surface-of-titan/