2025.03.05 | Blue Origin NS-30: Elaine Chia Hyde

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 5 March 2025:

Elaine Hyde & New Shepard 30 mission

The suborbital spaceflight of Melbourne raised but now Florida resident Elaine Chia Hyde aboard the New Shepard 30 mission; biography, interviews and an analysis of comments posted on Channel 9's Instagram page.

Australian Space Industry 2025 Part 3:

* Neumann thruster successfully tested aboard the Edison satellite

* Varda's Winnebago 2 parachutes into Koonibba

* Transporter 13 mission with the Inovor built Buccaneer Main Mission satellite and the U.S. Turion Space Droid 02 satellite bearing two cameras from HEO Robotics has been postponed for several days.

Changing the guard and language at NASA:

NASA to "dominate" rather than "lead" in lunar space; Administrator change.

More on PUNCH and SPHEREx:

An overview of the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere satellites and the SPHEREx observatory. (Inserts courtesy GSFC and JPL)