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This article first appeared in the June 2018 edition of Australian Aviation. Humans have been curious about the possibility of Martian life for hundreds of years. Mars and Martian life infiltrates popular culture, everything from films and songs to children’s cartoons. And this almost innate fascination for the red planet has also been driven by
Airbus has signed a pair of partnership agreements with Australian companies and institutions, signalling it plans to play a significant role in Australia’s space renaissance. Nicolas Chamusy, head of Space Systems for Airbus Defence and Space, said it was their intention to work with academia, SMEs and startup companies to develop Australia’s sovereign space capability,
The debate of the value of investing in space is at the front of the Australian space agency conversation. The private space sector has to justify the value of the government’s planned investment continuously, looking for ways that the R&D and technology can apply to other sectors and the general public. It’s a difficult conversation,
Far away, 13 billion miles from Earth, there is a tiny man-made spacecraft drifting away from Earth and everything that we know. This spacecraft, Voyager 1, has travelled further than anything else humans have made, learning about the deepest parts of our solar system and now beyond. It is our first foray into interstellar space,
Australia’s space achievements stretch back to the 1960s, when it became the seventh nation to launch a satellite into orbit. Named the Weapons Research Establishment Satellite (WRESAT), the 45kg spacecraft was designed and built by Australians and took off from the Woomera Test Range in South Australia on November 29 1967. This content is available
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