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Gurbir Singh

Not for Profit podcast – Astronomy, Deep Space Exploration and International Collaboration

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Episode 128: George Danos: Cyprus in Space

AstrotalkUK ·

2025/12/04

Cyprus is a small country with a small population and a small economy. But it has big ambitions in space. In this episode, recorded at Cospar 2025 in Nicosia, George Danos, who has been championing this case for Cyprus for years and can be considered Cyprus's Carl Sagan, explains the rise of Cyprus's space activities in communication services, small satellites, and collaboration with ESA and more.

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Episode 127: Weaving with Graphene. Vivek Koncherry

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2025/11/21

From centruries of weaving in the state of Kerala in India to automated AI controlled machines weaving Graphene coated fibres in Manchester. A modern day Cottonopolis.

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Episode 123: Soaring over the surface of Titan:...

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2025/05/29

It is December 2034. A spacecraft launched from Earth in July 2028, enters Titan's atmosphere at 5km/s. Around 2 hours later, it softly lands on the surface at less than 1m /s. Over the next three years, NASA's Dragonfly mission, a rotorcraft the size of a small car, will chemically analyse the Titan's atmosphere, ground and a little of its subsurface. It's called Dragonfly

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Episode 97 Bob Heil’s Moon Bounce Experiment with NASA

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2021/10/08

Following an unexpected meeting with USA's first Astronaut, Alan Shepard in around 1962. In this episode he recounts a Moon-Bounce experiments with @Nasa.

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IAC2019 Heads of Space Agency – Press Conference

AstrotalkUK ·

2019/10/27

This audio recording captures most of the Q&A that took place on Monday 21st October #IAC2019. The audio quality is variable. The agencies represented included #isro #nasa #jaxa #china #Russia

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Enabling democracy through an App?

AstrotalkUK ·

2019/04/12

GovernEye and is designed to facilitate democratic engagement by allowing voters elected politician and all stakeholders. @GovernEye founder Anant Ahuja talks about how Governeye works and what motivated it.

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Episode 78: ISRO’s early Earth Observation Cameras...

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2018/09/28

Dr Kiran Kumar. Credit ISRO Mr Kiran Kumar studied physics, physical engineering and electronics in educational institutions in India including the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. He specialised in electro-optical imaging systems and in 1975 was recruited by Dr Yash Pal (one of a few key individuals who played a pivotal role in the early days of India’s space programme) to ISRO’s Space Application Centre in Ahmedabad. During the 1970’s, state of the art imaging sensor

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Quick Update

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2018/04/29

Its been a while since I posted episode 72. Now that the book The Indian Space Programme has been published, I am resuming the podcasting. You can see some Amazon Reviews and if you have one, add your own too. More about that book on this short BBC radio interview here. . If you want you can subscribe to my monthly newsletter. The previous newsletter (March 2018) available here. April's newsletter coming out tomorrow! Scheduled episodes currently looks like this Episode 73. Dr. Rajan Bedi -

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Episode 68: Stephen H Smith – India’s forgotten...

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2014/05/06

Contribution of Stephen H Smith to development of rocketry and the Anglo Indian community in India of which he is a member.

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Jim Reavis – Cloud Security Alliance

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2013/05/01

Jim reavis A short interview with Jim Revis recorded in London on 24th April during InfoSec 2013. In this interview Jim talks about the evolving definition of of Cloud Computing, the CSA's Star Registry, CSA's Cloud Computing Security Knowledge certification and his take on how cloud Computing has been and is evolving. During the interview, Jim refers to a collaborative program between the CSA and (ISC)2 to create a new professional certification in Cloud Security. More details here. For my

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Episode 58: Astronauts Joe Engle and Ron Garan

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2012/10/20

The first interview in this episode is with astronaut Joe Engle was recorded during his visit to the UK in 2008. Joe Engle was at the front of the queue to go to the Moon when NASA cut its Apollo program. His place was taken by the geologist Harrison Schmitt on Apollo 17 – the last manned mission to the Moon. In this interview Joe talk about his work before and after Apollo - on the X-15 and Space Shuttle programs. The second short interview with astronaut Ron Garan was recorded at TedXSalford

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Episode 57: 15 October 2012 – Cassini Huygens Mission

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2012/10/14

Launched 15 years ago today, the Cassini Huygens mission has been one of the outstanding successes of solar system exploration and a model of NASA ESA collaboration. In episode 14 Professor John Zarnecki spoke about the science conducted from the surface of Titan by the Huygens lander in January 2005. The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe had hitched a lift to Saturn aboard the Cassini orbiter. Six years after its arrival at Saturn, Cassini is still making spectacular discoveries about Saturn,

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Episode 56: 7th October 2012 – SpaceguardUK

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2012/10/06

As the dinosaurs on the Earth 64 million years ago discovered, comets and asteroids have the potential for unexpected arrival with devastating consequences. The spectacular collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in July 1994 dramatically raised awareness and no doubt a little concern amongst the heads of governments across the planet. Since then, the British government has not really got engaged and so it is left to a handful of skilled and dedicated individuals through Spaceguarduk to

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Ben Kepes – Future of Cloud Computing

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2012/09/26

Ben Kepes When I speak to anyone in a time zone with a 12 hours difference and in opposite hemispheres it implies we are about as far as two people on the planet can be. You can play or download the recording at the bottom of this page. Ben is known for amongst other things, as the curator of CloudU. He has been speaking about Cloud Computing from a business perspectives long before it became trendy to do so. We spoke about CloudU, CSA's CCSK and the future of Cloud Computing and its

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Episode 55: 4 August 2012: Mars Curiosity Rover

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2012/08/04

Since the mid 1970s six spacecraft (Viking 1 & 2, Sojourner, Opportunity, Spirit and Phoenix) have successfully landed on the surface of Mars. In probably the most audacious, breathtaking and risky space missions, in less than two days, another Mars Curiosity Rover will arrive on Mars. Using a technique never used before, NASA has described the Entry Decent Landing as the seven minutes of terror. Launched in November 2011, the arrival of Mars Curiosity will for the first time make a high

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Mars Curiosity’s seven minutes of terror – in less...

AstrotalkUK ·

2012/08/03

Mars curiosity entry, decent and descent from http://www.extremetech.com/ Mars Curiosity landing in a nutshell (less than 3 minutes audio below) by Dr Anita Sengupta from the Entry Decent & Landing and Advanced Technologies group at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Full interview in Episode 55 - tomorrow.

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Episode 54: 23 July 2012 – Manchester Interplanetary...

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2012/07/23

Stanley Davis The August 2012 edition of Spaceflight, the monthly magazine from the British Interplanetary Society carried an article where I discuss the Northwest of England’s contribution in Rocketry during the 1930s. An extended version of that article is available for free download on Astrotalkuk.org - here. So on to today’ episode. In 1937, two teenagers Harry and Stanley with an outrageous ambition to design and build rockets for space travel joined a newly formed group with a name to match

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Episode 53: 28th June 2012 – The Chinese Space program

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2012/06/28

Brian Harvey is a Dublin based writer, author, broadcaster and probably the most informed specialist on Chinese and Soviet/Russian space program in Ireland today. This conversation recorded during the Shenzhou-9 / Tiangong-1 mission orbiting the Earth with the three crew including the first Chinese female astronaut on-board. At the end of the interview Brian Harvey talks about the Space Cooperation Memorandum signed last week.

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Episode 52: 7th June 2012: Michael Wood Historian and...

AstrotalkUK ·

2012/06/07

Historian Michael Wood's documentary, The Great British Story - A People's History, is currently being screened in the UK. Michael is from Manchester and was visiting Liverpool last weekend where he made time for this recording.

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Episode 51: 5th June 2012: Profile – Author David...

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2012/06/05

You know what it is like, you buy a book on a subject of interest and enjoy it. Later you see a book on a similar subject that you probably were not going to buy but do so because it is from that same author. Gradually, you end up with several books from that author in your collection. David Shayler is one such author for me. During the Space Day event in Droitwich earlier this year organised by British Interplanetary Society West Midlands branch, I finally got to meet David. This is a short

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