Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence annual report
Resilience Mission
As bushfires grow more frequent and complex, the need for integrated, science-driven solutions has never been greater. This year’s report showcases how the Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence, through partnerships across government, emergency services, research, and industry, is demonstrating and developing the technologies that will underpin a more intelligent and connected fire management system for Australia.
Should we colonise space?
Space Sector News
The Conversation recently asked five experts should humans colonise space?
iLAuNCH Trailblazer colleagues and collaborators to celebrate at IAC luncheon
Space Sector News
iLAuNCH Trailblazer colleagues and collaborators to celebrate at IAC luncheon.
NSQN's inaugural booth at IAC Sydney 2025
Space Sector News
NSQN's inaugural booth at IAC Sydney 2025
ANU represents at IAC Sydney 2025
Space Sector News
IAC 2025 Sydney 2025 Sydney - Day 3 and ANU Institute for Space | InSpace insisted on a group photo.
Signing ceremony between The Australian National University and the Roo-ver Mission leadership
Space Sector News
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.
InSpace Director and two of our Mission Specialists are elected to the International Academy of Astronautics
Space Sector News, Education, Mission control
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.
InSpace's publication 2024-2025 is out!
Mission control
Our InSpace publication for 2024-2025 is now available.
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
Mission control
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
iLAuNCH
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
Mission control
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!
Mission control
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
Mission control
ANU InSpace wins the Space Connect AusSpace 25 The Australian Space Award for University of the Year
Space Connect Aus Space 25 on the LUNAR - Artemis and the lunar Roo-ver
Mission control
Space Connect Aus Space 25 on the LUNAR - Artemis and the lunar Roo-ver: Setting stepping stones into deep space panel