September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... will host the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) this September - the biggest conference in the global space community’s annual calendar [1]. Australia, and particularly the state of South Australia, has a long heritage in the space industry...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... magazine, in which the then naval officer and science fiction author proposed their use to create a global communications system. Based on earlier work by a largely forgotten Slovene scientist, Herman Noordung, Clarke’s idea was to exploit the...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... transportation. As volumes of aircraft grew Air Traffic Management (ATM) became a major concern. With the development of communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS), ATM became sophisticated and the introduction of radar and instrument landing...
November 2017
Advancing maritime intelligence with real-time satellite AIS
... various executive positions within COM DEV. Mr Mabson has authored several technical papers related to satellite communications systems and previously served on the technology advisory board at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario. He graduated...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... indeed support both current and future markets. The most lucrative sector of today’s commercial launch market is communications satellites (comsats) that operate in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) but are initially launched into geosynchronous transfer...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... of Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon, now a heritage monument at CDSCC. Today, as the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, only the Tidbinbilla station remains in operation, playing a crucial role in planetary exploration. While the tracking...
