
What a night! ANU Institute for Space | InSpace won the Space Connect AusSpace 25 The Australian Space Award for University of the Year. Thanks to our director Anna Moore FTSE for fearless steadfast leadership and inspiration, to our associate directors Kate Ferguson and Benjamin Bek for consistent and persistent upbeat intelligence and unwavering nerve to get things done, signed and over the line, to our creative powerhouse marcomms team Krysia D. and Emily Schuster, and to Natasha Disha, Christopher Kourloufas and Anupam Kumar Pilli our strategic project managers who tirelessly make connections to get industry investment involved with The Australian National University research and to our amazing Mission specialists ANU academic researchers (listed in comments), whose innovation means we can impact what happens here on earth with space research that will solve society's biggest issues. ANU Research and Innovation thanks to you all.
We also want to salute the partners who we work with: iLAuNCH Trailblazer, CEA TECHNOLOGIES INC.,PLATYPUS R&D LTD., Liquid Instruments, ANSTO, University of Wollongong, Heavy Ion Accelerators, Nova Systems Australia and New Zealand, Saber Astronautics, Electro Optic Systems, Optus, TeleDynamic Communications, ANT61, HEO Robotics, Northrop Grumman Australia, Spiral Blue, Leonardo UK, Nominal Systems LLC, Space Machines Company, Aspen Medical, Axiom Space, Aqacia, Boswell Technologies, Azista BST Aerospace, Inovor Technologies, New Frontier Technologies, and ELO2 and the consortium partners.
Thanks also to our amazing Mission Specialists: Dr Zena Assaad, Associate Professor Francis Bennet, Dr Ben Bramble, Caitlin Byrt, John Close, Doris Grosse, Junichiro Kawaguchi, Dr. David W. Kim, Penny King, Hanna Kurniawati, Robert Mahony, FAA, FIEEE, Kirk McKenzie, Maria Racionero, Professor Tracy Smart AO, Professor Paul Tregoning, Eduardo Trifoni, Dr Emma Tucker and Marta Yebra.