Episode 10: Space Junk - Planetary Protection Laws: Tardigrades On The Moon (with Chris Johnson)
In this episode, Chris Johnson from the Secure World Foundation joins me to do a deep dive on the curious news about an Israeli spacecraft crash landing onto the moon, and potentially releasing thousa...
5 Sep 201936min
Episode 9: Space Junk - Astrophotography (with Dylan O'Donnell) Plus StarLink!
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, I tracked down Dylan O'Donnell, one of Australia's leading amateur astrophotographers, in beautiful Byron Bay. Dylan is also the creator of...
20 Juli 20191h
Episode 8: Space Junk - Space Weapons (with Daniel Porras) - Spotlight On India's ASAT Test
In this episode I talk with Daniel Porras, a Space Security Fellow at UNIDIR, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Daniel focuses on political and legal issues surrounding space secu...
1 Apr 201946min
Episode 7: Space Junk - Space Law (with Prof. Steven Freeland)
In this podcast, I chat to Professor Steven Freeland, international space law expert and current Dean of Law at Western Sydney University, about the challenges and opportunities posed by the internati...
30 Mars 20191h 11min
Episode 6: Space Junk - Space War (with Dr Malcolm Davis)
In this episode I sit down with Dr Malcolm Davis, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). Malcolm's research focuses on defence strategy and capability development, milit...
22 Mars 201940min
Episode 5: Space Junk - Space Security (with Ben Piggott)
In this episode I talk with Ben Piggott, a submariner and Communications and Information Warfare Officer with the Royal Australian Navy. Ben did his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and recently comp...
24 Dec 201846min
Episode 3: Space Junk - International Astronautical Congress (IAC)!
In September 2018 the 69th annual International Astronautical Congress was held in Bremen, Germany. In this episode I take you through the event from start to finish, with music from the opening cerem...
21 Okt 201842min
Episode 2: Space Junk - Humanity Star! With Dr Ben Pope
Part 2 of my conversation with visiting NASA Sagan Fellow and exoplanet-studying astrophysicist Dr Ben Pope is a lot like a Jane Austen novel. We unpack our prejudice against the Humanity Star and Mus...
14 Sep 201858min
