February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...outer space. Objects orbiting in LEO travel at 7-8 km/second and two such objects would present a very high relative velocity, in the order of 10-16 km/s, which means any spacecraft with some degree of manoeuvrability could be used as a weapon simply...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... to determine the position and velocity of the spacecraft relative to the surface - also developed for the first time... the ‘head” of the duck-shaped nucleus. A nice, relatively flat and sunny area, where the chances of landing success were...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... Sotin. It targets very high priority science - measuring the relative abundances of neon, argon, helium, krypton and other ‘noble...delay-tolerant networking; autonomous operations; terrain relative navigation; radiation-tolerant avionics; and multi-...
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...
