News & Events

30 Sep 2025

Signing ceremony between The Australian National University and the Roo-ver Mission leadership

IAC 2025 Sydney day two and we kicked off the morning with a signing ceremony between The Australian National University and the Roo-ver Mission leadership.

28 Sep 2025

InSpace Director and two of our Mission Specialists are elected to the International Academy of Astronautics

A great honour was bestowed on InSpace's Director Professor Anna Moore, and two of our Mission Specialists, Eduardo Trifoni and Professor Marta Yebra, when they were recently elected to the International Academy of Astronautics This accolade highlights the importance of science, engineering and social science disciplines to the understanding and use of space.

22 Sep 2025

InSpace's publication 2024-2025 is out!

Our InSpace publication for 2024-2025 is now available.

22 Aug 2025

InSpace Mission Specialist A/Prof Francis Bennet, project update

Associate Professor Francis Bennet is just one of our ANU Institute for Space | InSpace Mission Specialists heading to IAC 2025 Sydney this September to take part in talks and discussions and meet with stakeholders and partners for the many projects he and his team are working on.

14 Aug 2025

ANU InSpace on the Team Canberra Stand at IAC Sydney 2025

Six weeks to go before we head to Sydney for the 76th IAC 2025 Sydney International Astronautical Congress 2025 where ANU Institute for Space | InSpace will be part of the ACT Government Team Canberra stand – 315.

Our strategic projects manager, Anupam Kumar Pilli at the IEEE NSREC, Nashville

29 Jul 2025

InSpace at 2025 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference IEEE NSREC (NSREC) Nashville

Our strategic projects manager, Anupam Kumar Pilli, just returned from an insightful week in Nashville attending the 2025 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference IEEE NSREC (NSREC)—the world’s leading forum on radiation effects in electronics and photonic systems.

15 Jul 2025

iLAuNCH announces its partnership on a groundbreaking $50 million sovereign Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite project

iLAuNCH announces its partnership on a groundbreaking $50 million sovereign Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite project, with Optus, HEO, Inovor Technologies, SmartSat CRC and Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG).

13 Jul 2025

InSpace co-hosts Orbiting Ambition: Space Missions and Journeys of Japanese and Australian Trailblazers event at Questacon

InSpace co-hosts Orbiting Ambition: Space Missions and Journeys of Japanese and Australian Trailblazers event at Questacon.

ANU receives AEA grant for ANU receives Australian Government’s Australia Economic Accelerator (AEA) grant to enable capabilities for Quantum Free-Space Adaptive Optics

07 Jun 2025

ANU receives Australian Government’s Australia Economic Accelerator (AEA) grants to enable capabilities for Quantum Free-Space Adaptive Optics

ANU receives Australian Government’s Australia Economic Accelerator (AEA) grants to enable capabilities for Quantum Free-Space Adaptive Optics.

26 Jun 2025

ANU collaborating with NASA Glenn Research Center to utilise lasers to transmit data from deep space

ANU collaborating with NASA Glenn Research Center to utilise lasers to transmit data from deep space.

24 Jun 2025

The Future of Space CRC bid website is live!

ANU Institute for Space | InSpace has been working on the Future of Space CRC bid for 10 months and it has been quite the journey. One of the elements we need to tell and sell the CRC narrative is a website and when our colleagues over at Giraffe Studio Canberra heard we needed to design and build a site, they offered to support this endeavour by constructing our website for us. We are so happy to let you all know that it is live today!

12 Jun 2025

National Space Test Facility Director Eduardo Trifoni awarded Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy

Congratulations to one of our ANU Institute for Space | InSpace Mission Specialists, Associate Professor Eduardo Trifoni, Director of the Space Test Program and Head of the National Space Test Facility at the Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC) at Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA)Mt Stromlo Observatory. Eduardo was awarded by his Excellency the Ambassador of Italy to Australia Paolo Crudele the great honour of Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy, bestowed upon him by the President of the Italian Republic, during “Festa della Repubblica”, the Italian National Day celebrated at the Embassy of Italy in Canberra.

03 Jun 2025

ANU InSpace Mission Specialist, Robert Mahony, FAA, FIEEE, on his appointment as Fellow of The Australian Academy of Science!

Congratulations to our own ANU InSpace Mission Specialist, Robert Mahony, FAA, FIEEE, on his appointment as Fellow of The Australian Academy of Science!

ANU InSpace awarded University of the Year at Space Connect AusSpace 25

28 May 2025