2024.05.08 | Light This Candle: HyImpulse's SR75 rocket launched from the Koonibba Test Range

14/05/2024 50 min

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 May 2024:

Australian Space News:
* The successful launch of HyImpulse's SR75 paraffin-fuelled suborbital rocket from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range in South Australia
* Alan Shepard and "Light This Candle"
* Funding for Australian-Indian space projects. (Inserts courtesy SDU)

Boeing CST-100 Starliner first crewed orbital flight test:
* The stand-down of the launch attempt due to a Centaur valve problem
* A profile of astronaut Sunita Williams
* How the CST-100 will land.

China’s Chang'e 6 lunar sample return mission:
* Descriptions of the Chang'e 6 spacecraft, including the foreign instruments and sub-satellite
* Mission launch coverage. (Inserts courtesy CGTN)

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