2023.08.23 | Chinese satellites over Australia

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 23 August 2023:

A Roundup of Australian Space News:

• Equatorial Launch Australia signs up Innospace
• entX prototype radioisotope heater
• Plants for Space
• Neumann Space and CarbSAR
• Southern Launch planning permit for the Koonibba suborbital test range.

Chinese satellites over Australia:

• Reports that China's Yaogan and Jilin satellites were 'spying' on Australian naval exercises
• Dr Malcolm Davis, a Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, on Chinese space activities. (Audio inserts courtesy ABC; Dr Davis recorded at Space Association of Australia, South Melbourne).

Saving Voyager 2

Luna 25 Failure:

• The Luna 25 mission joins a long list of failures in the Luna programme
• A retrospective on Luna 5