February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... rationales that are exactly the opposite from those that have defined human culture from the dawn of industrial civilisation. Prime among these is the idea that, while a specific framework of laws and restrictions is completely...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... 179 art quilts tell the story of our fascination with our nearest planetary neighbour since the dawn of time through to the Apollo moon walks and beyond. Both well-known and new fibre artists...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... issues and hazards that are part of operating in the GEO orbit? The year 1963 saw the dawn of the commercial satellite era with the launch of the first GEO satellite, Syncom 2. Geosynchronous satellite communications...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... potential. Space background Australia has had a long history in space activities, spanning from the V2 rocket at the dawn of the space age to present day. This has been infl uenced by Australia’s technical expertise, geographical location...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
...ices of Antarctica and the first direct observation of gravitational waves by the LIGO interferometer, we are at the dawn of another new revolution in astronomy; the so-called `multi-messenger era’. Multi-messenger astronomy is the study of different...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
...; they are necessities. So necessary in fact that they occupied most of the time of our ancestors since the dawn of humanity. The Doctor Honoris Causae awarded by the University of Liège in 2012. Pictured (from left) are: Jean-Jacques...
