February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...), where most telecommunications satellites are located, or in LEO, which are widely used for meteorology and remote sensing, as well as telecommunication satellite constellations. There are currently about 1,200 operational satellites, or functional...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
...progress in understanding the diversity we see in planetary formation and evolution, we need a significantly bigger dataset of remote sensing spectroscopic observations that will permit comprehensive and meaningful study of their chemical composition...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... and continues to expand from traditional applications - communications, broadcasting, weather forecasting, navigation, medicine, security and remote sensing - to embrace space tourism, space mining, space-based solar power, and the future settlement...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... area necessarily implies an extraordinary demand for satcom bandwidth, precise Position, Navigation and Timing, and remote sensing data. New capabilities, offering greater connectivity, are increasing that level of extraordinary demand. Even before...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
...-known Planet. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists’ database there were, on 31 December 2016, over 290 civil remote sensing satellites in orbit around Earth, plus an additional 115 for the military. That is almost 30 percent of all...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... leading role in facilitating space technology development with the identifi cation of ground sector activities and remote sensing technology as potential areas, and the importance of international collaboration. This resulted in the formation of the...
