The New Frontier - S03:E06 - Sling Shot

Sending probes throughout the solar system is a mathematicians dream and an engineers nightmare, sling shotting probes around other planets to arrive at their destination, we checkout the latest probes about to slingshot about the solar system.

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Cast: Stuart Sykes

Australia • 2017 • PG • IMDB 7.2

Episodes in Season 3

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Episode 01 - Living with Space

24 Min 10 Sec

How do astronauts cope with living in space? The unique environment, the lack of taste in their food and the smell of canned air all contribute to the stresses of living and working in space.

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Episode 02 - Atmosphere

24 Min 03 Sec

Climate change and pollution are having dire consequences for the atmosphere of our planet, this episode updates the latest technology and science looking into the health of our air.

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Episode 03 - Flight Status

24 Min 02 Sec

The latest updates on The New space hardware about to launch us into the next generation of space flight some rockets and capsules are on time others not so fortunate.

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Episode 04 - Invasion Mars

24 Min 02 Sec

The EXO Mars and Curiosity continue their scientific discoveries as we prepare The New missions both robotic and manned to the Red planet Mars.

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Episode 05 - Juno, Cassini and Beyond

24 Min 00 Sec

The Cassini space craft has completed its mission over Saturn, Juno has reached its target and has commenced its scientific observations of the giant planet Jupiter. and The New Horizons speeds on it its next encounter at the edge of the solar system.

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Episode 06 - Sling Shot

24 Min 03 Sec

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Episode 07 - Living Planet

24 Min 04 Sec

With continuous observation of arth from orbit scientists have built a data set over time that reveals much about how the Earth breaths and life sustains itself on this living Planet.

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Episode 08 - Cosmic Collisions

24 Min 01 Sec

Cosmic and x rays, these mysterious and highly powerful particles from deep space are being investigated to finally discover where they come from.

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Episode 09 - Gravity

24 Min 01 Sec

LISA pathfinder, has led the way for a space based gravity wave detector, what are gravity waves and why are they so hard to detect?

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Episode 10 - Interface

24 Min 01 Sec

The Ionisphere, where the Earth interfaces with space, is little understood, it effects radio communications, GPS signals and satellites alike, it changes between day and night and is influenced from space and from Earth, The New satellites have been launched to study this zone.