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Episode 140: Science Beyond Borders: Dr. Pascale...

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2026/10/02

Founded in 1958, COSPAR organises Scientific Assemblies and Symposia in different countries where thousands of scientists, engineers and researchers gather over several days to share their latest work.This interview was recorded on 8 August 2026, on the final day of the 46th Scientific Assembly in Florence, Italy. Dr Pascale Ehrenfreund, a former president of the International Astronautical Federation who has led COSPAR as its president since 2022 — and was re-elected to that role just hours after

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Episode 139: The Cosmic Diplomat: Dr Lev Zelenyi on...

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2026/10/01

Dr Lev Zelenyi talks about his long career in many roles, including 17 years as the Director of the Space Research Institute (IKI), contributing to structural reforms within the Russian Academy of Sciences and his deep conviction in cultivating global partnerships in several key Russian space missions.

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Episode 138: Dr Serge Plattard on Space Debris,...

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2026/09/25

Our Staggering, Invisible Space Dependency: Approximately 8% to 10% of all global socioeconomic activity is now directly dependent on space-based assets. Dr Plattard shares his concerns on the absence of international rules and potential long term impact.

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Episode 137: Bouncing on Phobos. MMX – Mars Sample...

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2026/09/17

The ambitious Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission is expected to launch to Mars on 20th October 2026 and return a sample from the surface of Phobos by 2031. Several years in the making, it is a collaborative venture between CNES, DLR, NASA and led by JAXA.

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Episode 134: The European Solar Telescope project...

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2026/06/25

The European Solar Telescope is a project to build ever laregr telescope on Earth but this time for a solar telescope. This interview was recorded in Tenerife but the EST will be built on the negighboring Island of Las Palmas.

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Episode 133: The Toliman Space Telescope – an update

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2026/05/15

The Toliman Space Telescope. A small, novel spacecraft looking for Earth-like planets in our nearest neighbour star system, Alpha Centauri.

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Episode 128: George Danos: Cyprus in Space

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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

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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?

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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

AstrotalkUK ·

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

AstrotalkUK ·

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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