September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
...The Department of Defence could partner with the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science to facilitate this. For a relatively small public investment in a project in which the costs would be shared, Australia could realise significant benefits...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... of larger craters that Opportunity examined on the Meridiani plains before reaching Endeavour, were colour changes in otherwise relatively similar outcrops. These colour changes were brought about by minor variations in the amount of ferric oxides...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
...or redistribution. This is a problem because even relatively low fees or minimal restrictions can significantly limit data..., compliance with the Open Government Directive had been relatively easy for these agencies, particularly with respect to their...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... the thickness of our atmosphere. We depend on this relatively thin ‘skin’ for our lives. We would not exist... a system to remove space debris from Earth orbit. It is a relatively new problem of our own making, whereas the danger of asteroids crashing ...
