May 2019
Growing Australia’s space industry
...well as our researchers working together on new technologies such as laser communications. Our goal is to triple the size of the ...now has a LGS AO system for enhanced satellite and debris laser tracking. The sky’s the limit We are also forging ahead...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
...the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target. Thus, the inadequacy, and even some...humanity. Artist’s concept of land, air and space-based lasers. Space-based natural resources New legal norms meant to ...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
...of full sun to full darkness. Additional consideration for laser welding, mechanical assembly, scale, vibration load, and ... its colour will fade to expose raw nickel alloy and a laser engraved image in the mural surface. This change will occur across...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... Today, sending a ‘genesis ark’ of extremophiles to distant bodies on board ultra-light nanocrafts powered by ground-based lasers may be a possibility The heat produced by the radioactive decay supported liquid water pools in a large number of comets...
12 February 2016
A scientific breakthrough as gravitational waves detected for the first time
... by researchers using the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The discovery ...minutes of the binary's evolution, should be detectable with laser interferometric detectors, such as LIGO and the Virgo detector...
19 February 2016
Test Masses of ESA's LISA Pathfinder Released Successfully
... the spacecraft´s scientific instrument. The LISA Technology Package (LTP), which weighs around 150 kilograms, includes laser interferometers measuring changes in the distance between two precision-engineered gold/platinum test masses, each weighing...
