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

  1. 04/12/2025

    Episode 128: George Danos: Cyprus in Space

    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.

    49 min

  2. 21/11/2025

    Episode 127: Weaving with Graphene. Vivek Koncherry

    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.

    38 min

  3. 31/10/2025

    Episode 126: Graphene: From scientific discovery to commercial application

    rofessor James Baker, CEO of Graphene@Manchester, describes Manchester’s journey to commercialise the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of Graphene.

    1h 12m

  4. 04/09/2025

    Episode 125: Britian’s Greatest Pilot Captain Eric “Winkle” Brown

    You may have seen the BBC documentary Britain's Greatest Pilot. Yes, he was an outstanding pilot, but there was much more to him than just that. I published extracts from an interview with Captain Eric Brown in April 2011. Much of that interview was not published .. until now.

    1h 8m

  5. 25/06/2025

    Episode 124: Exploring the Stellar Neighbourhood. The Toliman Space Telescope

    Just as the Moon was the first stepping stone for our interplanetary exploration, our nearest star, the Alpha Centauri System will inevitably become our stepping stone for our Interstellar Journey. That is in the distance. A new mission, The Toliman Space Telescope, is launching soon will target the Alpha-Centauri System from Earth orbit.

    1h 7m

  6. 29/05/2025

    Episode 123: Soaring over the surface of Titan: NASA’s Dragonfly Mission

    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

    47 min

  7. 29/04/2025

    Episode 122: Are we alone and the Breakthrough Initiatives

    A two-day Breakthrough Discuss conference held on 23rd and 24th April 2025 in Oxford England, took stock of the latest developments through three main sessions: "Forms of Non-Terrestrial Life", "The Nature of Consciousness and Intelligence", and "Detecting Life As We Do Not Know It". Breakthough Discuss was overseen by the Chairman of the Breakthrough Foundation, in this interview Dr Pete Worden. A former Brigadier. General, astrophysicist, professor and director of NASA Ames Research Centre provides an update

    1h 12m

  8. 17/04/2025

    Episode 121: Failed stars or successful planets?

    The story of Teide-1 (the first brown dwarf to be observed) is the story at the other end of a star's life cycle. That early stage is when stars transition from a huge cloud of dust and gas (billions of km across). to the size of a large planet (150,000 km). This is way smaller than the size of the sun and only a little larger than Jupiter.

    1h 6m
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Not for Profit podcast – Astronomy, Deep Space Exploration and International Collaboration

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  • Creator
    Gurbir Singh
  • Years Active
    2008 - 2025
  • Episodes
    133
  • Rating
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