ABC’s Catalyst Team Visit SP3 Lab
Last Friday a film crew and reporter from ABC’s science show, Catalyst, visited our lab to do a story on the Helicon Double Layer Thruster. They interviewed my supervisors, Prof Rod Boswell and Dr Christine Charles, and filmed my experiment in operation. I disconnected the thruster so they could also take some shots of it on a bench while the reporter, Graeme Phillips, explained the components and how it worked. It is unlikely I will feature in the story and if I do it will just be footage of me carrying and installing the thruster in the vacuum chamber. I took a few photos of the film crew doing there stuff, which are below. When we know when the story will air on the ABC I will let people know.
August 1st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
[…] As I reported here back in March, a film crew from ABC’s Catalyst program visited my lab to do a story on the Helicon Double Layer Thruster. The story will be going to air tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 8pm on ABC TV. It will include interviews with my two supervisors, Professor Rod Boswell and Dr Christine Charles, and show footage of the HDLT prototype operating inside its new space simulation vacuum chamber. I doubt I will actually feature in the segment, but when the HDLT is running and you see the purple glow of the plasma, I am the one working the controls […]