DARK: Chats About Space
By James Wilkins
DARK: Chats About SpaceNov 04, 2018
Ep 7. Chatting Ex_Machina, Annihilation & Brian Cox's Live Tour with Andrew Whitehurst
Andrew Whitehurst is the Oscar Winning Visual Effects expert who has worked on Ex_Machina, Annhiliation and Brian Cox's live tour - we had a conversation at DNEG's offices about working with Brian Cox, the technicalities of creating black holes and his work on Alex Garland's wonderful 2018 film Annihilation.
As always, this podcast is brought to you by my very own book DARK: The A To Z Of Astronomy And The Cosmos - it's part universe explainer, part graphic design coffee table fodder with a bespoke piece of artwork by Andreas Brooks for each and every letter of the astronomical alphabet.
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Ep 6. How a space harpoon could deal with space junk
There's currently about 8,000 tonnes of space debris orbiting planet earth and there are a number of reasons why this is a problem that needs to be dealt with swiftly. I spoke to Richard Duke of the Surrey Space centre who landed in the international news headlines last months with their REMOVE DEBRIS satellite and its space harpoon and net. Richard tells us about the satellite's development with Airbus and how Elon Musk and the ISS astronauts helped get the satellite into orbit for it's groundbreaking first in-orbit test.
This podcast is brought to you by my own book DARK: The A to Z Of Astronomy & The Cosmos - it's part Universe A-Z explainer and part beautiful coffee table fodder. It's with crowdfunding publisher UNBOUND so every single pledge makes a massive difference in seeing this book get made. All pledges get your name in the book itself but there's lots of different pledge levels including bespoke artwork / limited edition art from the book and lots more.
About the book:
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About this REMOVE DEBRIS:
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https://www.surrey.ac.uk/surrey-space-centre/missions/removedebris