2024.05.29 | Does Planet Nine exist? New evidence says it might.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 29 May 2024:

Australian Space Industry News:

* Melbourne University's SpIRIT satellite survives global solar storm, returns picture from space

* Astronaut graduation ceremony for Katherine Bennell-Pegg (Inserts courtesy ESA)

* Gilmour Space still awaiting launch permit for its Eris orbital launch vehicle.

Planet 9: New evidence suggests that a planet orbits in trans-Neptunian space.

X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) and Resolve: Resolve is an X-ray microcalorimeter developed by NASA and the Goddard Space Flight Center.

eROSITA:

* Findings by the eROSITA instrument on the Russian Spectrum Roentgen Gamma satellite of a very hot, ionized gas surrounding the Milky Way galaxy

* Also resolves one of the cosmological tensions regarding the clumpiness of the universe.

Update on China’s Chang'e 6 mission

Planet Earth — Episode 63:

* Launch of PREFIRE 1 and EarthCARE. (Inserts courtesy Rocket Lab and ESA)