29 May 2018
Gilmour Space prepares for suborbital hybrid rocket launch
... completed a longer duration test-fire of its proprietary hybrid rocket engine, bringing it one step closer to launching Australia and Singapore's first privately-developed commercial rockets to space. “This was a 12-second static fire of what will...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
...Norcia, a small site 130 km north of Perth, Western Australia. Rosetta and Philae being prepared for launch This was sufficient... Rosetta. While the construction of the deep space antenna in Australia was in its hot phase in early 2001, our mission ...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
... be impossible to construct. About the authors Matt Pankhurst gained his PhD in isotope geochemistry from Macquarie University, Australia, in 2013. He has held post-doctoral roles at the University of Leeds and the University of Manchester, UK, the...
19 May 2016
Astronomers find a group of stars dying too early
.... They are both fascinating and frustrating at the same time," said Professor Lattanzio from Monash University, Australia who also supervised Monash PhD student Mr Ben MacLean, the lead author of the paper describing these...
01 August 2016
SETI has new eyes on the skies
... MWA, one of the most powerful low-frequency radio telescopes located in a remote, radio-quiet region of Western Australia, which is also one of three telescopes designated as a precursor for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), to examine spectral...
02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
... glass table randomly placed in the outback of Western Australia. Detecting the signal is cause enough for celebration, ...The EDGES instrument at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, Australia. In each instrument, radio waves are collected by ...
