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

02/06/2024 56 min

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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)

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