#spaceaustralia — Public Fediverse posts

Could a powerful geomagnetic storm be the reason 8,000 Victorian homes suddenly lost power in January this year?

I had a chat with Dr Richard Marshall from Australian Bureau of Meteorology Space Weather about the origin of solar storms and the risks they present to our communities and critical infrastructure.

So great to be able to have such fantastic and professional insights about these important events and how we, as a society, need to mitigate against them.

https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/earthly-impacts-solar-storms

📸 NASA SVS

#SpaceAustralia #SolarStorm #geomagneticstorm #Astrodon #heliophysics

Who Thought It Was a Good Idea to Let Me Drive a Lunar Rover?

They actually let me drive Australia’s Lunar Rover… I still don’t know why.

This all happened at AusSpace 2025 — Australia’s biggest space tech event — where I somehow found myself behind the controls of ROO-VER, the lunar rover being built to drive on the Moon.

Not only did I get to drive the thing, but I also sat down with one of the engineers building it... and then, somehow, ended up interviewing former Prime Minister Scott Morrison (?!). That’s not a sentence I ever thought I’d write.

This trip was insane, full of space tech, mad energy, a few surprises — and, of course, one very confused engineer trying to explain to me how to drive a robot made for the Moon.

So… did I crash it? Did Scott Morrison talk about space chickens? Did I get kicked out of AusSpace?

There’s only one way to find out 👇

#LunarRover #AusSpace2025 #SpaceAustralia #ROOVER #Engineering #MoonMission #SpaceExploration #Astroworx #ScottMorrison #Science #Tech #STEM #Innovation #FutureTech #Robotics #NASA #SpaceX #Australia #BehindTheScenes #Trending #YouTubeShorts #Vlog #CrazyIdeas #WildRide

YouTube: https://youtu.be/hrkSaIBE7dY