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2020 EDITION INTERVIEWS FOREWORD DAVID BALL THE HON KAREN ANDREWS MP CEO, SERC & CHAIR, SIAA MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY, TODD MAY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, KBR OPENING INTERVIEW ANDREW “ANDY” THOMAS AO NASA ASTRONAUT ANTHONY MURFETT DEPUTY HEAD, PROFESSOR CRAIG SMITH AUSTRALIAN SPACE AGENCY CEO, EOS SPACE SYSTEMS SPECIAL INTERVIEW PROFESSOR IVER CAIRNS DIRECTOR, CUAVA JAMES MORHARD DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, NASA ARTICLES US/AUSTRALIA SPACE AGREEMENT ARTEMIS & MOON TO MARS SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS & SPACE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AUSTRALIAN SPACE AGENCY ADVISORY GROUP ASTA • SIAA • ADF SPACE PROGRAMS • SPACE LAW • ADVANCED MANUFACTURING Here’s how our world-leading experts and their next-generation initiatives are reshaping Australia’s future: Supercharging Australia’s space We are building Australia’s first ANU researchers are cubesat to monitor bushfire developing quantum industry conditions including forest fuel communication satellite load, moisture content and technology to enable provably real-time fire conditions. secure communication. Our team is leading the Our experts are unlocking development of Australasia’s Australia’s space capabilities optical ground station network, with our National Space providing infrastructure to Test Facility. enhance Australia’s future communication capabilities. ANU is cultivating the next generation of space innovators. The ANU Institute for Space coordinates space-related Get in touch at InSpace.anu. ANU Institute for Space A STRATEGIC INITIATIVE OF: activities across the ANU. We invest in ANU teams and edu to learn more and meet their global partners as they design and deliver space our space experts. Together E [email protected] innovations to respond to Australia’s biggest challenges. we’ll innovate to deliver space- T +61 2 6125 0230 Our research excellence delivers on Australia’s goal to ready missions. treble the size of its space industry and workforce by 2030. InSpace.anu.edu.au Here’s how our world-leading experts and their next-generation initiatives are reshaping Australia’s future: Supercharging Australia’s space We are building Australia’s first ANU researchers are cubesat to monitor bushfire developing quantum industry conditions including forest fuel communication satellite load, moisture content and technology to enable provably real-time fire conditions. secure communication. Our team is leading the Our experts are unlocking development of Australasia’s Australia’s space capabilities optical ground station network, with our National Space providing infrastructure to Test Facility. enhance Australia’s future communication capabilities. ANU is cultivating the next generation of space innovators. The ANU Institute for Space coordinates space-related Get in touch at InSpace.anu. ANU Institute for Space A STRATEGIC INITIATIVE OF: activities across the ANU. We invest in ANU teams and edu to learn more and meet their global partners as they design and deliver space our space experts. Together E [email protected] innovations to respond to Australia’s biggest challenges. we’ll innovate to deliver space- T +61 2 6125 0230 Our research excellence delivers on Australia’s goal to ready missions. treble the size of its space industry and workforce by 2030. InSpace.anu.edu.au AUSTRALIAN SPACE OUTLOOK CONTENTS FOREWORD FROM ....................... 07 academia, to foster new ideas and create EOS SPACE SYSTEMS:................... 34 THE HON KAREN ANDREWS MP high-technology jobs. AUSTRALIAN SPACE SPECIALISTS Minister for Industry, Science and EOS Space Systems is currently the only Technology. KBR TO EXTEND SPACE ............... 26 local commercial provider of qualified CAPABILITY TO AUSTRALIA SSA data and has been operating for INTERVIEW WITH .......................... 11 If ever the words “Houston, we have over 35 years. ANTHONY MURFETT a problem” are transmitted during Deputy Head, Australian Space Agency. a space flight, KBR is there to find a SERC’S SSA LEGACY ..................... 40 solution and ensure that any problems The SSA and space debris issue will SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH............ 16 are successfully resolved. continue to be a major problem for JAMES MORHARD the global space industry, but SERC’s Deputy Administrator, NASA. AUSTRALIA AT THE ....................... 30 research and IP will continue to help FOREFRONT OF SPACE solve it long after SERC’s final shut-down AUSTRALIA’S INVOLVEMENT ........ 21 SITUATIONAL AWARENESS this year. IN NASA’S MOON TO The useable orbital space around MARS PROGRAM Earth is becoming more crowded SIAA: HELPING AN ....................... 43 Australia has committed to with man-made objects, increasing INDUSTRY TO GROW spending $150 million with local the risk of collision. To minimise this The Space Industry Association of businesses to support NASA’s ambition risk, the US and other countries – Australia is helping its members surf the to return to the Moon and on to Mars. notably Australia – are investing large wave of industry confidence that started A by-product of the local spending will amounts of money in technologies to to gather with the formation in 2018 of be a boost to Australian industry and enhance SSA. the Australian Space Agency. 2 AUSTRALIAN SPACE OUTLOOK 2020 AUSTRALIAN SPACE OUTLOOK SPECIAL STATE FOCUS: ............... 48 FROM CYBER THREAT .................. 74 are likely to be made by Sydney-based QUEENSLAND SET FOR LAUNCH TO CYBER WARFARE Romar Engineering. Queensland’s geographical All high-tech and critical national advantages for launch activities and infrastructure industry sectors are high- ADVANCED MANUFACTURING .... 95 satellite control, combined with value targets for cyber criminals, rogue TO THE FORE funding and a new strategic plan from states, terrorists and other bad actors. Advanced manufacturing techniques the state government along with a with next-generation composite critical mass of high technology start- SCIENCE TEACHERS AT THE ......... 79 materials are a key part of building a up companies, is positioning the state FRONTLINE OF STEM modern space industry. for a future in space. There is an inspirational aspect to space which never fails to capture the attention HI-RELIABILITY PRECISION ......... 100 ADVISING FOR SUCCESS ............ 56 of students, and science teachers are CONNECTORS IN SPACE DESIGNS The Australian Space Agency Advisory able to harness this interest as a way The LEO or GEO space environment is Group exists to give advice to the of motivating young people to study harsh with temperature variations of hot Agency on its strategic direction, STEM subjects. and cold extremes, the effect of shocks and to help facilitate productive and vibrations on components, radiation collaboration within Australia and also AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD ............. 82 and outgassing as component materials internationally. PROBLEM TO SOLVE experience a change of state. How would you like to be part of a team ANDREW “ANDY” THOMAS AO: 60 representing Australia in a robotics SPACE LAW IN AUSTRALIA: ........ 102 FIRST AUSTRALIAN IN SPACE competition against teams from at WHAT IS IT AND WHAT DOES Andy Thomas took part in four space least 11 other countries, with the finals IT MEAN? missions between 1996 and 2005 and being conducted in real time on the Effective and predictable legal regulation has the distinction of being the first International Space Station (ISS)? is a necessary precondition for every Australian in space. business sector and space is no different. THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ...... 84 AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE ............... 63 SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM: USING SATELLITE ........................ 106 FORCE SPACE PROGRAMS 10 YEARS OF WORLD-LEADING TECHNOLOGY TO FEED A For the time being, Defence remains SPACE EDUCATION GROWING, HUNGRY WORLD the biggest single customer of With the goal of meeting the sector’s With the global population increasing Australia’s space sector. growing educational needs, the and food production needing to step up International Space University and the to meet demand, remote sensing using DEFENCE SHOOTING .................. 68 University of South Australia formed a satellites can provide growers with an FOR THE STARS consortium in 2010 to launch a space aerial view to make quicker and more The world has entered a new education program. accurate assessments of their crops. Space Age – colloquially known as ‘New Space’ – where commercial SOUTH AUSTRALIAN .................... 87 TESTING HIGH-THROUGHPUT .... 108 enterprise is rapidly driving innovation SPACE SCHOOL SATELLITES: FROM PROTOTYPING in small satellites, launch systems, The first South Australian Space School TO IN-ORBIT VERIFICATION and space-based services that (SASS) was held in 1997, led by a team To deliver the next generation of satellite offer opportunities in agile of three science teachers and a Defence applications, operators are exploiting development, rapid deployment Science and Technology (DST) scientist, the on-board processing advantages and intelligent systems. with the aim of providing a stimulating of digital, wideband high-throughput and rewarding educational experience payloads at higher frequencies. GOING FORWARD TO SPACE: .... 70 for secondary school students. AUSTRALIA’S FUTURE ON THE HOW TO SELECT AND USE......... 111 (CONTESTED) HIGH FRONTIER ROMAR INVESTS IN ROCKET ....... 92 COTS COMPONENTS FOR SPACE As a new decade beckons, CAPABILITY APPLICATIONS where does Australia head in Modern rocket engines comprise a For some spacecraft manufacturers, the space in the 2020s, and how do multitude of