Through a diverse and dynamic range of channels, we bring all the latest news, events, and updates from InSpace right to your fingertips.
Opportunities for Australian Space Leadership, Delivered by Professor Anna Moore FTSE
There are five challenges we need to talk about now that will shape the way we think about and act upon future opportunities for the Australian space sector.
ANU InSpace Director, Professor Anna Moore FTSE, highlighted them all in a passionate talk at Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA) Southern Space 2024 this past week.
This is Professor Moore's full speech, with an introduction and all five challenges.
ANU Quantum Optical Ground Station Build Timelapse
The Australian National University launched the Quantum Optical Ground Station (QOGS), a first for Australia, in December 2023. The QOGS is equipped with advanced instrumentation including adaptive optics and quantum technology to enable high performance communication with enhanced security. ANU technology enables communication links in challenging environments for a range of mission scenarios from LEO and GEO to lunar and deep space. This will enhance system-wide resilience by augmenting existing telecommunication infrastructure. The facility is up and running, with the ability to host hardware for research or commercial application.
With its quantum capability this ground station will also provide the underlying infrastructure to connect quantum devices and establish a quantum internet for improved computation, sensing accuracy, and provably secure communications. Upgrades are already underway to enable communication to Lunar distances, with other more advanced communication techniques also in the works.
See the ANU Quantum Optical Ground Station being built in less than a minute!
The ANU Quantum Optical Ground Station is supported by funding from the ACT Government, with additional support from the Australian Space Agency, CSIRO, and the ANU Institute for Space | InSpace.
2023 ANU InSpace Media Wrap Up
It’s been a big year for ANU InSpace! We hosted and attended over two dozen meetings, events, and conferences. We networked with hundreds of people involved in the space sector from academia, industry, government, and the community. We welcomed three new Business Development Managers onto our team. We won awards and honours and continued our commitment to be leading advocates for space research.
Three of our flagship missions took off: the Quantum Optical Ground Station opened to great fanfare in December, our Associate Director Dr. Cassandra Steer and her team launched the Australian Centre for Space Governance as its own entity, and the National Space Qualification Network (NSQN) cemented its position as a leading space testing organisation with a thriving community and celebrated the opening of the new space irradiation beamline at the Heavy Ion Accelerators Facility.
But this is just the beginning. There’s so much on the horizon for ANU InSpace and for the space industry. Here’s to everything 2023 brought us and to everything yet to come.
Dr Cassandra Steer shares her thoughts in a recent essay for the National Bureau of Asian Research on Asia's Space Ambition
We are delighted to share with you a recent essay for the National Bureau of Asian Research that our Associate Director of Mission Specialists Dr. Cassandra Steer contributed to entitled, "Asia’s Space Ambitions: Driving the Next Chapter in Global Space Competition."
AmCham Alliance Awards Finalists come together at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra
This wasn’t Professor Anna Moore FTSE's first trip to the spectacular U.S. Embassy in Australia in Canberra, but it was a very memorable one. On Tuesday night, Anna and her fellow finalists for this year's AmCham Alliance Awards came together for an evening to recognise and thank the AmCham Australia organisation and judging committee, who do so much work to leverage and grow the $2 trillion economic relationship between our two countries.
Listen to the latest podcast series from AGCS's Space Matters: The Space Governance Podcast
What are the hidden human impacts of space activities, and why should we care? In the latest bonus episode of "Space Security is Here and Now" Dr. Cassandra Steer interviews Jessica West, senior researcher at Project Ploughshares, about her expertise on space security and the lesser discussed human dimensions of space systems.
Centre for Appropriate Technology Satellite Enterprises visits ANU InSpace
VisitsThis week we hosted the CfAT Satellite Enterprises Pty Ltd (CfATSE) at the ANU Quantum Optical Ground Station. This was a great opportunity to meet the team from CfATSE, to hear about their ground station site in Alice Springs, and to talk about the potential for working together in the future.
Space Command AU visits ANU InSpace
VisitsANU Institute for Space was delighted to host Space Command AU last week (Defence Space Commander Major General Greg Novak, Major Hannah Banks and Lieutenant Chris Maclean) and to show them ANU space capability sites including Heavy Ion Accelerators, National Space Test Facility (NSTF) and the Quantum Optical Ground Station.
Theory to Practice Workshop held in collaboration with ANU CECC and DSTG
EventsYesterday we held the first 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩, focussing on trustworthy autonomy and AI. This was the first workshop in a series of workshops co-developed by ANU College of Engineering, Computing & Cybernetics School of Engineering, ANU Institute for Space, and Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG).