The New Frontier
- Title: The New Frontier
- Duration: 50 × 30’ HD
- Producer: USA
- Year: 2014–2022
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? A return to the moon, manned flights to Mars or Titan, mining the asteroid belt or finding an earth-like planet in the cosmos, these goals could be achieved in decades to come. The explosion of private investment including tourist flights from Virgin Galactic and The Red Bull Stratos have all combined to reshape our goals. Europe and the ESA have shouldered their burden of exploration and now Japan, China and India have all committed to launching probes to the Moon, Mars and beyond!
Episodes
Episode 41 - Star Light, Star Bright
The two current science missions to our star; the sun have made great leaps forward in the science of how stars work, how they generate solar winds and how they affect their orbiting planets. These insights let us look at other stars with a greater understanding.
Episode 42 - Moon Shine
The International drive to return to the Moon is gathering pace, this multi- nation effort is readying to return, stay and utilise the Lunar assets. We look at what resources scientists and engineers are looking to extract from Lunar regolith and Martian soil.
Episode 43 - Rising Tides
The next generation of Earth observation satellites are now in place maintaining the continuity of long-term climate data, in particular the planets rising temperatures and related ocean levels. Scientists are concerned the rate is increasing beyond expectations and glacier melting continues unabated.
Episode 44 - Earths Evil Twin
Venus is a planet closest to Earth in distance and size, it once may have been as hospitable to life as Earth is now. Then something changed and Venus became shrouded in hot dense toxic clouds. There are now plans to send advanced probes to the surface of Venus and find out what happened to our twin.
Episode 45 - Increasing Orbit
The ISS is the workhorse of the international spacefaring community, but its days are numbered. Replacement space stations are on the drawing board; these new stations will study pure science like the ISS however, with commercial interests these stations will add tourism and manufacturing to the mix.
Episode 46 - Mountains in the dark
Asteroids, the debris from the early solar system hold tantalizing clues to planetary formation. The spacecraft Psyche readies to study a unique metallic asteroid. As Lucy is on its way to the trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit, and the DART mission is testing the technology to move these mountains in the dark.
Episode 47 - Oceans in the Sky
Juice and the Europa Clipper are two missions to our Solar System’s largest planet. They will spend over four years studying Jupiter’s atmosphere, magnetosphere and in particular the icy moons Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede, investigating whether these moons hold oceans that are suitable for life.
Episode 48 - Webb of life
The James Webb Space Telescope is now operational. Launched aboard an Arianne 5 the 10-billion-dollar spacecraft has deployed successfully and reached its orbit around the Sun. Soon Webb will find the furthest galaxies, study the atmospheres of exoplanets, and pose new questions to be answered.
Episode 49 - Peering into the Abyss
Imaging a black hole was a breakthrough in astronomy, now with the new satellite IXPE high energy telescope we will be looking at some of the most dramatic, and most violent objects in the universe: Colliding Black holes and Neutron Stars. The x-ray vision will reveal their hidden secrets.
Episode 50 - The Next Big Leaps
Projects in the works. SunRISE, SPHEREx, NEOS and others, their mission to expand our knowledge of Earth, the surrounding space, Dark Matter, and the earliest galaxies. New ground-based telescopes are coming online ready to discover strange new worlds and engineers are studying new technologies to extend our reach into space.
Episode 41 - Star Light, Star Bright
The two current science missions to our star; the sun have made great leaps forward in the science of how stars work, how they generate solar winds and how they affect their orbiting planets. These insights let us look at other stars with a greater understanding.
Episode 42 - Moon Shine
The International drive to return to the Moon is gathering pace, this multi- nation effort is readying to return, stay and utilise the Lunar assets. We look at what resources scientists and engineers are looking to extract from Lunar regolith and Martian soil.
Episode 43 - Rising Tides
The next generation of Earth observation satellites are now in place maintaining the continuity of long-term climate data, in particular the planets rising temperatures and related ocean levels. Scientists are concerned the rate is increasing beyond expectations and glacier melting continues unabated.
Episode 44 - Earths Evil Twin
Venus is a planet closest to Earth in distance and size, it once may have been as hospitable to life as Earth is now. Then something changed and Venus became shrouded in hot dense toxic clouds. There are now plans to send advanced probes to the surface of Venus and find out what happened to our twin.
Episode 45 - Increasing Orbit
The ISS is the workhorse of the international spacefaring community, but its days are numbered. Replacement space stations are on the drawing board; these new stations will study pure science like the ISS however, with commercial interests these stations will add tourism and manufacturing to the mix.
Episode 46 - Mountains in the dark
Asteroids, the debris from the early solar system hold tantalizing clues to planetary formation. The spacecraft Psyche readies to study a unique metallic asteroid. As Lucy is on its way to the trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit, and the DART mission is testing the technology to move these mountains in the dark.
Episode 47 - Oceans in the Sky
Juice and the Europa Clipper are two missions to our Solar System’s largest planet. They will spend over four years studying Jupiter’s atmosphere, magnetosphere and in particular the icy moons Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede, investigating whether these moons hold oceans that are suitable for life.
Episode 48 - Webb of life
The James Webb Space Telescope is now operational. Launched aboard an Arianne 5 the 10-billion-dollar spacecraft has deployed successfully and reached its orbit around the Sun. Soon Webb will find the furthest galaxies, study the atmospheres of exoplanets, and pose new questions to be answered.
Episode 49 - Peering into the Abyss
Imaging a black hole was a breakthrough in astronomy, now with the new satellite IXPE high energy telescope we will be looking at some of the most dramatic, and most violent objects in the universe: Colliding Black holes and Neutron Stars. The x-ray vision will reveal their hidden secrets.
Episode 50 - The Next Big Leaps
Projects in the works. SunRISE, SPHEREx, NEOS and others, their mission to expand our knowledge of Earth, the surrounding space, Dark Matter, and the earliest galaxies. New ground-based telescopes are coming online ready to discover strange new worlds and engineers are studying new technologies to extend our reach into space.