UNSW Canberra Space

After 13 years in the Royal Australian Air Force, UNSW Canberra electrical engineering student Pilot Officer Matthew Dilkes is embracing the next frontier – space. 

How can an existing or emerging space technology be used in a novel way to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change? 

“Be careful – once space takes hold of you it will not let you go.”

NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observation Program painstakingly documents all asteroid sightings that could pose a potential threat to our planet.

Growing up in a small Scottish town of 1500 people, Dr Melrose Brown never imagined he would play a key role in Australia’s space sector.

A suite of Australian designed and built meteorological satellites could help meet the future needs of the Bureau of Meteorology, a UNSW Canberra study has found.

UNSW Canberra Space has achieved a significant milestone in its latest satellite mission, M2, successfully separating a very large cubesat into two smaller spacecraft.

Twenty-one organisations from across Australia and the United States have found that a series of satellites fitted with hyperspectral sensors could become a key component in Australia’s space capabilities.

Analysis conducted at UNSW Canberra has demonstrated that a new space-based Earth observation system would be a valuable piece of infrastructure for monitoring and managing Australia’s inland and coastal waterbodies.

The knowledge of UNSW Canberra’s M2 mission continues to expand thanks to recent small-scale artificial intelligence experiments performed ‘at the edge’ in space.