The New Frontier
Due to world events over the last twenty years and the decline in government finance; Space exploration has fallen from the media’s gaze into the shadows. With the recent launch of the first privately owned space craft to service the international space station; it’s time to take a fresh look at the new frontiers of space. What does the immediate future hold?
Season 1
S1 E1: From There to Here
With the recent launch of the first privately owned space craft to service the international space station; it’s time to take a fresh look at The New frontiers of space. The sky above is littered with stars and countless galaxies. The next stage of our journey is with robotics, advanced technologies and sheer daring we are now going where before we only dreamt.
24 min | Aug 18, 2022S1 E2: Return To The Moon
The Moon, our closest celestial companion. Our indispensible dance partner through the cosmos. Lighting our night sky and gently tugging at our shores. Few have walked on her surface, though her allure remains strong, once again we are glancing her way with reThe Newed interest and with a view to return very soon.
24 min | Aug 18, 2022S1 E3: The Inner Worlds
They orbit between us and our Star, the inner worlds; hidden within the sun's glare often only visible at sunrise or sunset. Venus the first and brightest star in the evening sky, and Mercury fleeting across the solar disk. They are half of our solar system's terrestrial planets and yet as we look at our companions they are posing more questions than answers.
24 min | Aug 18, 2022S1 E4: Next Stop Mars
It has fired our imaginations for millennia, Mars, the God of War and the source of Man's science fictional demise. We know the dry barren planet was once flowing with vast reservoirs of water, the sky thick and filled with clouds and the tantalizing possibility of life. It is the only other place in our solar system than Man might
24 min | Aug 18, 2022S1 E5: The Planet Makers
From the beginnings of our Solar System four and half billion years ago there remains tantalizing clues to its evolution; remnent debris: asteroids and comets. They vary in size from grains of dust to mountain sides, footballs to planetoids. They were the building Now within our grasp these rocks of ice and dust are ready to give up their secrets.
24 min | Aug 18, 2022S1 E6: The Ice Giants
Beyond the asteroid belt lay the ice giants, some can be seen with the naked eye, others only glimpsed once by a passing probe. We are again sending cameras to the edge of the solar system giving us The New insights into the evolution of our worlds.
24 min | Aug 18, 2022S1 E7: The Moons of Olympus
These are the the Moon's of the gas giants. Each a unique and mysterious world of its own. Some have oceans of water, geysers of Sulphur or atmospheres of plastic. Some are just now being seen at the outer rim of our solar system, all are worthy of much more scrutiny.
24 min | Aug 18, 2022S1 E8: The Sun
It powers the machinery of nature; our weather, encourages and sustains life on land and at sea. When it sets in the West it reveals to us its many billions of sibling stars populating the night sky. We study our Sun closely, and like a Rosetta stone it can reveal the secrets of all the other stars above.
24 min | Aug 18, 2022S1 E9: Exo Planets
As scientists and astronomers peer closer at nearby stars with ever more fidelity they are discovering planets; exo planets, worlds outside our own solar system. With technological advances and improved techniques scientists are discovering more and more worlds every day. With confidence scientists now calculated there could be as many as 40 billion Earth like planets in our Milky Way galaxy alone.
24 min | Aug 18, 2022S1 E10: Edge of the Universe
The night sky is a time machine. The further we look out into the universe the further back in time we reach. What we see in the night sky is only a small percentage of the contents of the Universe, most is dark matter and dark energy we know it exists; however its nature eludes us for the moment.
24 min | Aug 18, 2022Season 2
S2 E1: Astronauts
One hundred kilometres above the Earth’s surface lies an invisible frontier: the edge of space. This is the Karman Line, the boundary between our planet’s atmosphere and what lies beyond. What does it take to cross that line?
25 min | Aug 22, 2022S2 E2: Getting Up There
Launching payloads into space is a very difficult task, historically rocket launches are the proverbial 'swords into ploughshares' Missiles designed to carry atomic warheads now send satellites and probes into the solar system. Ironically it's one of the few exploits Mankind undertakes that doesn't occur in nature.
25 min | Aug 22, 2022S2 E3: Orbit
The International Space Station is undoubtedly the jewel in the crown of low Earth orbit; observation post, research lab and class room. Equally however there are many other assets orbiting Earth that are even more important to our everyday lives; delivering communications, weather observation, global positioning and resource management the list is growing with every year.
25 min | Aug 22, 2022S2 E4: Shore to Shore
Our seafaring nature has translated well to the space age, seeking to sail out into the unknown in search of riches of one kind or another. While Europe and Asia continue their interest in the resource rich Moon, The United States and NASA have set their sights on nothing less than manned missions to Mars. Can they manage to go shore to shore on the most dangerous of unknown seas, deep space.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S2 E5: Mars: Adapt or Leave
As the latest successes and failures come and go Mars continues to give up her secrets. Invisible clouds are revealed with ultraviolet light and the search for the source of methane continues with ExoMars. As we prepare to land humans on the red planet, getting there is one thing; staying long term is another, can we really conquor this planet?
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S2 E6: Emissaries
Our solar system is vast, from our own star the Sun to Earth is nearly 150 million kilometers or 1 Astronomical Unit. Jupiter is 5.2 AU distant and Pluto up to 48AU, the solar system extends far beyond this into interstellar space. We humans cannot yet travel that sort of distance, however w e can and do send our robots and probes in our place; and the results are astounding.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S2 E7: Danger Asteroids Ahead
The question often rises is the cost of space exploration really worth it? Could the money be better spent elsewhere. If so one space program would have to remain. The planetary defence program, to locate identify and deflect a wayward asteroid from hitting Earth and destroying our civilzation because at last count there were 15,000 possible dangerous candidates close to Earth.
25 min | Aug 22, 2022S2 E8: First Light
For an instrument first developed as recently as the 17th century, the telescope has travelled a long way. The latest version of the once-humble telescope will be going a lot farther – carrying us ever closer to the first light that ever bathed the Universe in which we live.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S2 E9: Stars Above
Stars are a bit like human beings. They can be warm or cold, they come in all kinds of shapes and sizes... and, let’s face it, they can be dim or bright. And recent discoveries suggest that the number of stars in our galaxy alone, the Milky Way, may exceed 200 billion. Just what are these citizens of the night sky?
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S2 E10: The Dark Side
Perhaps that American politician was right. There are indeed things we know we don’t know. For instance, cosmologically speaking, we know we don’t know much – and certainly not nearly enough – about two of the enduring mysteries of the Universe. Dark Matter and Dark Energy, it’s little wonder that scientists are devoting so much grey matter and energy of their own to finding out as much as they can.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022Season 3
S3 E1: Living with Space
How do astronauts cope with living in space? The unique environment, the lack of taste in their food and the smell of canned air all contribute to the stresses of living and working in space.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S3 E2: Atmosphere
Climate change and pollution are having dire consequences for the atmosphere of our planet, this episode updates the latest technology and science looking into the health of our air.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S3 E3: Flight Status
The latest updates on The New space hardware about to launch us into the next generation of space flight some rockets and capsules are on time others not so fortunate.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S3 E4: Invasion Mars
The EXO Mars and Curiosity continue their scientific discoveries as we prepare The New missions both robotic and manned to the Red planet Mars.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S3 E5: Juno, Cassini and Beyond
The Cassini space craft has completed its mission over Saturn, Juno has reached its target and has commenced its scientific observations of the giant planet Jupiter. and The New Horizons speeds on it its next encounter at the edge of the solar system.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S3 E6: Sling Shot
Sending probes throughout the solar system is a mathematicians dream and an engineers nightmare, sling shotting probes around other planets to arrive at their destination, we checkout the latest probes about to slingshot about the solar system.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S3 E7: Living Planet
With continuous observation of arth from orbit scientists have built a data set over time that reveals much about how the Earth breaths and life sustains itself on this living Planet.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S3 E8: Cosmic Collisions
Cosmic and x rays, these mysterious and highly powerful particles from deep space are being investigated to finally discover where they come from.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S3 E9: Gravity
LISA pathfinder, has led the way for a space based gravity wave detector, what are gravity waves and why are they so hard to detect?
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S3 E10: Interface
The Ionisphere, where the Earth interfaces with space, is little understood, it effects radio communications, GPS signals and satellites alike, it changes between day and night and is influenced from space and from Earth, The New satellites have been launched to study this zone.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022Season 4
S4 E1: The Cryoshere
The JAXA-ESA joint "BepiColombo" Mission is moments away from launch. The target is Mercury, which has been too long neglected by the world's space exploration programs. This mission will shed new light on this strange, tiny world.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S4 E2: Set Course for the Heart of the Sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission is on its way and will be shortly followed by Europe's Solar probe Mission. No spacecraft have traveled so fast or so close to a star before. The hope is to reveal the source of the solar winds that affect us here on Earth.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S4 E3: Tickets Please
The commercial space flight companies are edging closer and closer to flight readiness. Paying customers will soon be launching into space; tourist revenue is projected to be a major stepping stone toward space exploration and colonization.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S4 E4: Planet X
The New Horizons Mission continues deeper into space. With its next target looming close, some speculate that there may be evidence of a mysterious new planet, one long steeped in folklore. Could Planet X exist?
23 min | Aug 22, 2022S4 E5: Hyabusa
The Japanese Asteroid Sample Return Mission has reached its target and is surveying the space rock, ready to dip down to acquire its sample. The return of asteroid material to Earth will aid scientists in the development in planetary defense systems.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S4 E6: Fresh Eyes
Two new space telescopes, Gaia and TESS, are in orbit with their primary missions coming to a close. They will be joined by the James Webb Telescope, and together they will open up a whole new vista into time and space.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S4 E7: Martian Attractions
This is the latest in Martian exploration, not just from orbit but also from rovers on the ground. New sources of water and planetary dust storms are a few of the stories unfolding on the Red Planet.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S4 E8: Cubes
Cubesats are miniature satellites that have been used exclusively in low Earth orbit for 15 years. Now, these tiny satellites are growing in mainstream popularity and are being used for interplanetary missions as well. They have even been sent to Mars with the Insight Mission, in hopes of better understanding the red planet, our solar system, and beyond.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S4 E9: Proving Einstein
The evidence to prove some of Einstein's theories had long been elusive, beyond the capabilities of technology, until now. It appears that Einstein is once again triumphant as we discover the latest in deep space observations.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022S4 E10: Where are all the Aliens?
We're looking hard, but the numbers aren't stacking up. Is life on other planets really that hard to find? Does it even exist? We have not discovered so much as a signal, so maybe we really are alone in our neck of the galaxy.
24 min | Aug 22, 2022Series Synopsis
Due to world events over the last twenty years and the decline in government finance; Space exploration has fallen from the media’s gaze into the shadows. With the recent launch of the first privately owned space craft to service the international space station; it’s time to take a fresh look at the new frontiers of space. What does the immediate future hold?
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