Astrophiz 70: Dr Jamie Stevens - The ATCA
b"Astrophiz 70: Dr Jamie Stevens ~ The ATCA\\nPLUS: 'What's up Doc' with Dr @ianfmusgrave \\nListen here: Astrophiz \\u2013 Astrophiz70\\n\\nThis is the third of 6 \\u2018Astrotour\\u2019 episodes of Astrophiz, where we are publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia\\u2019s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories.\\n\\nToday\\u2019s feature interview is with Dr Jamie Stevens, CSIRO\\u2019s Senior Systems Scientist for the Australian Telescope Compact Array, a unique mobile array of 6 x 22 metre dishes. Jamie tells us all about this beautiful facility, it\\u2019s technology and how it creates rich data sets for a huge number of researchers and gives us an idea of some of the current ATCA projects.\\n\\nIn our regular segment for astrophotographers and observers, Dr Ian 'Astroblog\\u2019 Musgrave presents \\u2018What\\u2019s Up Doc?\\u2019. In this episode he tells us about the planets and comets currently visible to the naked eye and in his tangent he reveals a comet is approaching the Parker Solar Probe.\\n\\nIN THE NEWS:\\n\\n.1. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is slowly dying.\\n\\u2028\\n.2. Via The Chinese Academy of Sciences Newsroom: Fusion reactor reaches 100 million degrees Centigrade, enough to initiate hydrogen fusion (for a very short amount of time). It\\u2019s a breakthrough in the quest to produce clean, inexhaustible fusion energy.\\u2028\\n\\u2028\\n.3. Finally, with Opportunity not phoning home from Mars, I\\u2019ve just booked another interview for early next year with Richard Stephenson who leads the control room at Australia\\u2019s DSN station at Tidbinbilla. \\n\\u2028\\nNASA has three DSN stations, one at Tidbinbilla in Australia managed by the CSIRO, one at Madrid and one in California, sited about 120 degrees apart so NASA can schedule contact with missions throughout the day and night as the earth rotates.\\nFor new listeners didn\\u2019t hear our first interview about operations at the Deep Space network with Richard, go to tinyurlDOTcomFORWARDSLASHrichardnasa all lower case, all one word, it\\u2019s a fabulous episode called \\u2018Talking to Spacecraft\\u2019"