2024.05.15 | Slim pickings for Australian space in 2024 Federal Budget

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 15 May 2024:

Australian Space News:

* The 2024 Federal Budget

* Landsat Next

Chang'e 6: A progress report on China’s lunar far-side sample-return mission, and of the Pakistani iCube-Qamar lunar orbiter.

Planetary Report:

* The findings of the Lucy spacecraft at asteroid binary Dinkinesh/Selam

* MAVEN's findings when the solar wind disappeared at Mars. (Inserts courtesy GSFC)

Planet Earth — Episode 61: Preparations by Rocket Lab to launch two Prefire (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment) from New Zealand. (Note: LandsatNext was covered in the Australian Space News segment of this episode).