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.

UNSW Canberra has a range of experts available for comment on the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26):

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.