1 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: The launch that happened at the Unham Space Center overnight. 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: And I've got Brad on the phone, who is actually 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: at the space center right now. Brad morning, how are you? 4 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 2: How are you good? 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: Lovely to talk to you. 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 2: Now. 7 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: We won't get into too many of the intricacies of this, 8 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: although I mean it's not exactly rocket science, is it? 9 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 2: But what is? 10 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: That's a good point. However, I'm very impressed by what 11 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: you guys managed to do, especially when I saw it, 12 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: you know, the news footage last night where we were 13 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: going to launch this space rocket and I'm expecting something 14 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: that looks like Cape Canaveral, and you know, he is 15 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: this rocket being towed up to the site at the 16 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 1: back of the ute on a trailer, and I thought, 17 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: come on, Australia. 18 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 2: Almost, it's so very Australian, you know. As I said, 19 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 2: you know, I'm kind of standing at the art of 20 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 2: Space Center and if I look towards my left, I 21 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 2: see kind of a caravan, and if I look towards 22 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 2: the right, I see a rocket launch pad. Yeah. 23 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 1: The theme we've come up with as well to a 24 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: launch should have been I come from a planet down Under, 25 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: but i'd probably a bit late for that. 26 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 2: Now, that's right. Look, we have two and two and 27 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 2: three more launches ago. Oh okay, another launch on the 28 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 2: fourth of July and the twelfth of July, so you know, 29 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 2: a plenty good pack of puns ready to go. 30 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well, if you need that place, come to 31 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: us here at WSFM. If you need any help whatsoever. 32 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: We've all done astrophysics courses at TAFE, so there's anything 33 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: you need we can help you out with. Now, what 34 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: exactly was the purpose of this if you don't mind 35 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: me asking. 36 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 2: Yes, So this first mission launch an X ray telescope. 37 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 2: So this is a telescope that's looking at the X 38 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 2: ray light. That's kind of essentially, you know, just like 39 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 2: as you have X rays that measure your phones at 40 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,839 Speaker 2: the hospital. Right, what you're trying to do is measure 41 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 2: the X ray light from the center of our galaxy. 42 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 2: And the center of our galaxy is only visible from 43 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 2: the southern sky. So this is why NASA needed to 44 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 2: come down here and launch it. 45 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: Right, Okay, Now how far up did it go? Because 46 00:01:58,120 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: I think I heard on the news it went three 47 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: hundred klosters. And look, I've been to the edge of 48 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: the Earth because I've been to Perth. To me, that 49 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: doesn't sound very far. 50 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 2: The Perth is definitely over the edge of the Earth. Yeah, 51 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 2: there you go, three hundred and fifteen kilometers with its 52 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 2: full height. So in fact, you know space is actually 53 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 2: you know, it's only a few hundred kilometers up the 54 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 2: International Space Station orbits at about five hundred. 55 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, obviously I knew that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 56 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: So and what's up there? Do you have to worry 57 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: about space junk and things like that, bumping into anything. 58 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 2: So so there is a lot of things that you 59 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: have to worry about, both stuff on the way up 60 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 2: and stuff on the way down. Yeah, so you had 61 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 2: to worry about aircraft, you had to worry about in 62 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 2: our case, wind there was a lot of winds that 63 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 2: were blowing around the rocket that caused a lot of 64 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 2: holes on the rock before we can launch. There is 65 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: a worry about space shuns. There wasn't as much as 66 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: this one. And then there is the recovery that we 67 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 2: had to deal with of getting the payload back and 68 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 2: that was another consideration as well, and making sure doesn't 69 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 2: you know land on the one. 70 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 1: Well exactly, That's the thing is you know that as 71 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: Bert Newton found out when he sat under the tree 72 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: and that apple fell on his head. What goes up 73 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: must come down. What kind of petrol did you use 74 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: to get up? There? Was it xy? 75 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: So I know it is expensive though, but yeah, there's 76 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 2: a mixture of oregon, nitrogen and hydrogen. Right, So this 77 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 2: gas creates and it creates a little bit of fuel. 78 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 2: You inject the oxygen in it and you get rocket go. 79 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 1: Boom, fantastic. Well thanks for simplifying that for us. Of 80 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: course you didn't need to do that with me, because 81 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: I drive a Captiva. Did you use any parts of 82 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: the Captiva incidentally, or do you want that for the 83 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: next one? 84 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 2: No? No, that will be part of the. 85 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: Next Sure, okay, yeah, you know I've got some parts. 86 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: I've got to take it to Aultratude today Mcquarie Park 87 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: free plug there, might get a free service. So if 88 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: you need any spare parts, I can sort you up 89 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: with the Captiva. But all I say from this point 90 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: on is von voyage or is it bon voyage? Von 91 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: voyage if you be going up three point fifty so 92 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: look it's. 93 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: A bomb voyage hopefully not bum voyage on someone's back. 94 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 2: Everyone everyone's excited by houses one went and everyone's looking 95 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 2: to the fourth of July for the second launch and 96 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 2: the third launch on twelfth July. 97 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: Come on, Australia. You know, when you want to meet 98 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: people from another planet, the first intelligent race they want 99 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: to meet, and in you know the space station is 100 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 1: somebody from you know, Summer Bay. So I think we're sorted. 101 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: Brad triffic to talk to you. Ma, thank you so 102 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: much for your time. 103 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 2: Thanks, take care, take care. 104 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: Wow, I feel like that was just I feel like 105 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: I've learned everything there is to know about space.