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Canberra with Inspiring ACT

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FREE EVENT, but tickets required


What goes up must come down…or does it?


We’ve been sending things into space for over 80 years, with much of it still orbiting our planet. Old satellites, broken rockets, and even chips of paint become space junk, zooming along at 28,000km/hr and endangering the satellites that enable our telecommunications and GPS. So what can we do about it?


In this live recording for the Australian Highlights podcast series, Canberra’s Dr Doris Grosse will update us on her investigations into the where and what of space junk. Her research aims to reduce the threat and make space safer for our satellites and the technology they provide. She’s saving our internet, one piece of debris at a time.


An ANU researcher fellow, Doris is also looking into optical communication systems to beam messages around the moon and into deep space – if we can get rid of all that junk!


Hear her in conversation with host, Rachel Rayner, Science Explainer and a local comedic talent, live at Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, Saturday, 7 June 3pm.


This project is supported by Inspiring Australia ACT, the ACT Government, and the Canberra Museum and Gallery.

Date and time

Saturday 7 June, 3:00pm 

Did we mention it was free?

Venue

Canberra Museum and Art Gallery (CMAG)

The exhibition, Outer Space: Stromlo to the Stars, will also be open to launch our minds beyond the stratosphere.  

More details via CMAG

New Zealand International Science Festival

Join the live audience in a special from across the pond

FREE EVENT, but tickets required


Australian Highlights looks for the innovative people and ideas which are not – yet! – common knowledge. In an antipodean twist, we're investigating a New Zealand innovation that Australia attempts to claim...


Join comedian, subject matter expert and host Rachel Rayner, Science Explainer, for this live recording especially for the New Zealand International Science Festival. We'll be exploring the science, art and culture of this local (or Australian?) innovation to finally replace myth with fact.

Date and time

Thursday, 3 July, 7:30pm

Did we mention it was free?

Venue

 Te Whare o Rukutia
20 Princes St, Central Dunedin, Dunedin 

Tickets via NZISF

Whatever road we take, our fate is indissolubly bound up with science. It is essential as a matter of simple survival for us to understand science. In addition, science is a delight.


Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980

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