Through a diverse and dynamic range of channels, we bring all the latest news, events, and updates from InSpace right to your fingertips.
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.
Fast Ride on a Space Machine by Kim Cunio
In November 2022, ANU InSpace hosted a showcase of our projects. To demonstrate just how broad-reaching our multidisciplinary approach is, we asked Kim Cunio, Professor of Music at the ANU School of Music, to compose a theme tune just for us.
This is "Fast Ride on a Space Machine" by Kim Cunio.
Interview with Kim Cunio, Composer of the ANU InSpace Theme Tune
In November 2022, ANU InSpace hosted a showcase of our projects. To demonstrate just how broad-reaching our multidisciplinary approach is, we asked Kim Cunio, Professor of Music at the ANU School of Music, to compose a theme tune just for us.
Kim takes a special interest in space and in sharing the overlap of space research across many fields. Listen to our interview with Kim to learn how he uses space as inspiration for his music, and to get a sneak preview of his incredible InSpace theme tune!
Three Aussie-made and NSQN-tested CubeSats are launching as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-11 mission
This is a historic moment for Australia in space. Three Aussie-made and NSQN-tested CubeSats are launching as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-11 mission. ANU InSpace Mission Specialist Eduardo Trifoni and his team at the National Space Test Facility (NSTF) have worked tirelessly for the past few years to ensure the safety and success of these launches, as well as three others (Binar-2, 3, and 4) which have recently arrived at the International Space Station and will soon be deployed in orbit. NSTF is one of the ANU space capabilities at Mount Stromlo and a node of the National Space Qualification Network (NSQN).
ANU InSpace Director Professor Anna Moore speaks on ABC's The Money Podcast about the global race to the moon
On this week’s episode of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National’s The Money Podcast, ANU InSpace Director Professor Anna Moore joins host Richard Aedy, along with Peggy Hollinger, Space Industry Editor for the Financial Times, and Ryan Brukardt, Senior Partner in Global Management Consulting at McKinsey & Company, in conversation about 🚀 the global race to the moon 🌖
ANU InSpace Director Professor Anna Moore speaks at ATSE for National Science Week
Happy National Science Week! 🔬 🔭 ANU InSpace Director Professor Anna Moore FTSE spoke on Monday as a part of the ATSE event, "Improving our national capability."
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).