
InSpace Mission Specialist A/Prof Francis Bennet, project update
Australasian Optical Ground Station Network (AOGSN), Mission control
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.

ANU InSpace on the Team Canberra Stand at IAC Sydney 2025
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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.

InSpace at 2025 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference IEEE NSREC (NSREC) Nashville
Mission control, National Space Qualification Network (NSQN)
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.

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

ANU collaborating with NASA Glenn Research Center to utilise lasers to transmit data from deep space
Space Sector News, Australasian Optical Ground Station Network (AOGSN)
ANU collaborating with NASA Glenn Research Center to utilise lasers to transmit data from deep space.

The Future of Space CRC bid website is live!
Future of Space CRC Bid, Mission control
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!

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

ANU receives Australian Government’s Australia Economic Accelerator (AEA) grants to enable capabilities for Quantum Free-Space Adaptive Optics
Space Sector News, Australasian Optical Ground Station Network (AOGSN)
ANU receives Australian Government’s Australia Economic Accelerator (AEA) grants to enable capabilities for Quantum Free-Space Adaptive Optics.

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

Space Connect Aus Space 25 on the LUNAR - Artemis and the lunar Roo-ver
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Space Connect Aus Space 25 on the LUNAR - Artemis and the lunar Roo-ver: Setting stepping stones into deep space panel

ANU InSpace awarded University of the Year at Space Connect AusSpace 25
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ANU InSpace wins the Space Connect AusSpace 25 The Australian Space Award for University of the Year

Space Connect AUS Space 25 Space Summit and Exhibition on the Sustainability Panel
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Space Connect AUS Space 25 Space Summit and Exhibition on the Sustainability - Sweeping under the stars: Confronting space congestion panel

Congratulations to ANU researchers - 19 abstracts accepted or IAC Sydney 2025
Congratulations to ANU researchers - 19 abstracts accepted or IAC Sydney 2025

ANU is partnering with the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG)
Space Sector News, Australasian Optical Ground Station Network (AOGSN)
The Australian National University is thrilled to be partnering with the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG)


Happy 60th Anniversary to the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex!
Education, Mission control
Happy 60th Anniversary to the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex!

The iLAuNCH Trailblazer is set to revolutionise satellite communications in its newest project
iLAuNCH
The iLAuNCH Trailblazer is set to revolutionise satellite communications in its newest project that will develop technologies to give Australians faster and more affordable access to data.

The iLAuNCH Trailblazer is collaborating with HEO, ANT61 and The Australian National University on a groundbreaking project to improve satellite tracking!
iLAuNCH
The iLAuNCH Trailblazer is collaborating with HEO, ANT61 and The Australian National University on a groundbreaking project to improve satellite tracking!

The Australian National University ANU Institute for Space | InSpace is working with Deloitte to explore new frontiers
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The Australian National University ANU Institute for Space | InSpace is working with Deloitte to explore new frontiers.