Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) 2015 ANNUAL REPORT Never Stand Still Engineering Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) 2015 ANNUAL REPORT Cover photo: iStock, asteroid field, artist’s impression Opposite page: (Top to bottom) - 2015 Off Earth Mining Forum - Mars ISRU project collaborators: Prof Andrew Dempster (UNSW), A/Prof Serkan Saydam (UNSW), Rene Fradet (NASA), Bob Shishko (NASA), Carlos Tapia Cortez (UNSW), Jeff Coulton (UNSW) - SMiLE project: Josh Brandt & Dr Barnaby Osrbone aboard a Novespace parabolic flight in Bordeaux - QB50 Project: Dr Barnaby Osborne, Dr Joon Wayn Cheong and John Lam examining a partially contstructed cubesat - QB50 Project: Dr Joon Wayn Cheong testing the CubeSense cameras about the UNSW EC0 cubesat © Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research UNSW Sydney NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA Director: Professor Andrew Dempster T: +61 (2) 9385 6890 E:
[email protected] f ACSER.UNSW @ACSERUNSW ACSER UNSW Contents Contents Director’s Report 2 About ACSER 4 ACSER Objectives 4 ACSER Strategy 5 Supporters 6 Our Research 7 YEAR IN REVIEW: Projects 8 Off-Earth Mining 8 QB50 9 SMiLE 10 Reconfigurable Systems for Space 11 Biarri 12 GNSS Interference Detection and Localisation 13 Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) 14 Our Events 15 YEAR IN REVIEW: Workshops & Events 16 Launching CubeSats For and From Australia 19 Off Earth Mining Forum 21 ACSER Seminar Series 25 YEAR IN REVIEW: Other Highlights 26 Media & Publicity 30 Our Students 31 Undergraduate Education 32 BLUEsat 32 Honours Supervision 34 Taste of Research 35 Postgraduate Coursework & Resarch Practicums 36 Higher Degree Research 37 PhD Student Profiles 38 Our People 39 2015 Industry Partners and Collaborators 46 Governance 47 Publications 52 ACSER Annual Report 2015 1 Director’s Report TThis is the fifth Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) annual report, covering our fifth full calendar year of operation, 2015.