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The Week in Detail: Pasifika MPs, 95bFM, and comic books
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
The Week in Detail: Pasifika MPs, 95bFM, and comic books
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
AudioLong Read: The MethaneSAT saga
By Eloise Gibson: How did New Zealand come to invest $29 million in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan? Audio
Long Read: The MethaneSAT saga
By Eloise Gibson: How did New Zealand come to invest $29 million in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan?
AudioAn eye in the sky to detect methane emissions
MethaneSAT is the first New Zealand government funded space mission. A joint project between the United States' Environmental Defense Fund and New Zealand, the project will see a methane sensing… Audio
An eye in the sky to detect methane emissions
MethaneSAT is the first New Zealand government funded space mission. A joint project between the United States' Environmental Defense Fund and New Zealand, the project will see a methane sensing…
AudioMonitoring methane - A New Zealand space mission
How can a methane-detecting satellite help us tackle our agricultural emissions and detect gas leaking from pipelines, wetlands, farms and crops across the world? Peter Griffin speaks to the project… Audio
DIY diplomacy: Spacebridge
It's a far out true story featuring New Age thinking, The Space Race, dream telepathy, the Grateful Dead, and ESP. With the world living under the threat of nuclear attack, the idea was to bypass Cold… Audio
Images suggest Iran launched satellite despite US criticism
Iran appears to have tried a second satellite launch despite US criticism that its space programme helps the country develop ballistic missiles, satellite images suggest.
NASA satellite launch from Mahia Peninsula breaks ground
Rocket Lab launched 13 NASA satellites into orbit from Mahia Peninsula in the Hawke's Bay last month.The launch broke new ground for the company, being the first time a private company had provided a… Audio
Peter Beck - Rocket Lab founder wins Sir Peter Blake medal
The founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, Peter Beck, is one of six medalists in this year's Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards, announced June 8. Rocket Lab successfully launched its first rocket into orbit… Audio
What Next-Gen air traffic control means for our skies
As New Zealand air traffic control moves from radar based to satellite based navigation - what will it mean for safety, emissions and noise control? Steve Smyth is the director of New Southern Sky… Audio
Japanese satellite out of control in space
Japanese scientists are scrambling to save an out-of control satellite worth a quarter of a billion dollars, launched just last month. Audio
