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Sixty Years of Australia in Space
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 153, part 1, 2020, pp. 46–57. ISSN 0035-9173/20/010046-12 Sixty years of Australia in space Kerrie Dougherty Space Humanities Department, International Space University, Strasbourg, France Email: [email protected] Abstract Australia’s involvement in space activities commenced in 1957, at the beginning of the Space Age, with space tracking and sounding rocket launches at Woomera. By 1960, Australia was considered one of the leading space-active nations and in 1967 became one of the earliest countries to launch its own satellite. Yet by 1980, Australia’s space prominence had dwindled, with the country lacking both a national space agency and a coherent national space policy. Despite attempts in the latter part of the 1980s to develop an Australian space industry, the lack of a coherent and consistent national space policy and an effective co-ordinating body, left Australia constantly “punching below its weight” in global space activities until the Twenty First Century. This paper will briefly examine the often-contradictory history of Australian space activities from 1957 to the announcement of the Australian Space Agency in 2017, providing background and context for the later papers in this issue. Introduction Launchpad: the Woomera or 60,000 years the Indigenous people of Rocket Range FAustralia have looked to the sky, using “If the Woomera Range did not already exist, the stars to determine their location, find the proposal that Australia should engage in their way across the land and mark the a program of civil space research would be passage of the seasons and the best times unrealistic”. -
Space Diplomacy in Asian Orbit
Space Diplomacy in Asian Orbit EDA INSIGHT RESEARCH & ANALYSIS OCTOBER 2018 Space Diplomacy in Asian Orbit Dr N. Janardhan Disclaimer: The views expressed in this publication are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Emirates Diplomatic Academy, an autonomous federal entity, or the UAE Government. Copyright: Emirates Diplomatic Academy 2018. Cover Photo: Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre - http://www.khalifasat-thejourney.com Space Diplomacy in Asian Orbit Dr N. Janardhan Senior Research Fellow, Emirates Diplomatic Academy Dr N. Janardhan is Senior Research Fellow, Gulf-Asia Programme, Emirates Diplomatic Academy. His academic publications include – A New Gulf Security Architecture: Prospects and Challenges for an Asian Role (ed., 2014); India and the Gulf: What Next? (ed., 2013); and Boom amid Gloom: Spirit of Possibility in 21st Century Gulf (2011). Dr Janardhan is also Managing Assistant Editor, Journal of Arabian Studies. Executive Summary ◊ In international relations, expanding institutionalised ◊ As balance of power equations get reconfigured, channels of consultation is seen as enhancing there is evidence that international political- cooperation. Pursuing this, it is estimated that more security competition in space may supersede other than 80 countries (and many more private enterprises) considerations in the future. For now, however, there are are presently using space, either on their own or ample notable space-related developments in Asia that in partnership with others, to further individual or fall within the realm of soft power, which this Insight collective interests. explores. ◊ The West used the Cold War to further diplomatic ◊ It also suggests the following policy options for the influence and create ‘satellite’ states based on UAE to consider: geopolitical ideology. -
Euclid Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Instrument Ready to Draw a 3-D Map of Galaxies of the Distant Universe
NISP Press Release Euclid space telescope’s Near-Infrared instrument ready to draw a 3-D map of galaxies of the distant Universe ESA’s Euclid mission to study more than a billion galaxies is a step closer to launch as its two instruments are now built and fully tested, including the complex near Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument delivered by an international consortium coordinated by France, with partners from Italy, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Norway and the United States. Once Euclid is launched from French Guiana in 2022, the NISP instrument will feed the world largest near infrared wide field camera put into space and will deliver near-infrared photometry, spectra and redshifts of tens of million distant galaxies providing a detailed description of the 3-dimensional structure of the universe, and its evolution as function of look back time. Euclid has a 1.2-metre mirror telescope that is designed to work at both visible and near- infrared wavelengths. It will collect light from distant cosmic objects and feed it into NISP and the second instrument, the VISible instrument (VIS), both working in parallel and observing the exact same regions of the sky at each exposure of the telescope. Euclid will survey the 3-D distribution of galaxies and dark matter and map the geometry of the Universe with the aim of making accurate measurements of the mysterious Dark Matter and Dark Energy, which make up most of the cosmos. No-one yet knows what Dark Energy is, and Euclid will be the yet most powerful tool for cosmologists and astronomers looking to find out. -
Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services Mergers & Acquisitions
Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services Mergers & Acquisitions (January 1993 - April 2020) Huntington BAE Spirit Booz Allen L3Harris Precision Rolls- Airbus Boeing CACI Perspecta General Dynamics GE Honeywell Leidos SAIC Leonardo Technologies Lockheed Martin Ingalls Northrop Grumman Castparts Safran Textron Thales Raytheon Technologies Systems Aerosystems Hamilton Industries Royce Airborne tactical DHPC Technologies L3Harris airport Kopter Group PFW Aerospace to Aviolinx Raytheon Unisys Federal Airport security Hydroid radio business to Hutchinson airborne tactical security businesses Vector Launch Otis & Carrier businesses BAE Systems Dynetics businesses to Leidos Controls & Data Premiair Aviation radios business Fiber Materials Maintenance to Shareholders Linndustries Services to Valsef United Raytheon MTM Robotics Next Century Leidos Health to Distributed Energy GERAC test lab and Technologies Inventory Locator Service to Shielding Specialities Jet Aviation Vienna PK AirFinance to ettain group Night Vision business Solutions business to TRC Base2 Solutions engineering to Sopemea 2 Alestis Aerospace to CAMP Systems International Hamble aerostructure to Elbit Systems Stormscope product eAircraft to Belcan 2 GDI Simulation to MBDA Deep3 Software Apollo and Athene Collins Psibernetix ElectroMechanical Aciturri Aeronautica business to Aernnova IMX Medical line to TransDigm J&L Fiber Services to 0 Knight Point Aerospace TruTrak Flight Systems ElectroMechanical Systems to Safran 0 Pristmatic Solutions Next Generation 911 to Management -
Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 02/16/2021 11:18:01 AM
Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 02/16/2021 11:18:01 AM 02/12/21 Friday This material is distributed by Ghebi LLC on behalf of Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, and additional information is on file with the Department of Justice, Washington, District of Columbia. Lincoln Project Faces Exodus of Advisers Amid Sexual Harassment Coverup Scandal by Morgan Artvukhina Donald Trump was a political outsider in the 2016 US presidential election, and many Republicans refused to accept him as one of their own, dubbing themselves "never-Trump" Republicans. When he sought re-election in 2020, the group rallied in support of his Democratic challenger, now the US president, Joe Biden. An increasing number of senior figures in the never-Trump political action committee The Lincoln Project (TLP) have announced they are leaving, with three people saying Friday they were calling it quits in the wake of a sexual assault scandal involving co-founder John Weaver. "I've always been transparent about all my affiliations, as I am now: I told TLP leadership yesterday that I'm stepping down as an unpaid adviser as they sort this out and decide their future direction and organization," Tom Nichols, a “never-Trump” Republican who supported the group’s effort to rally conservative support for US President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, tweeted on Friday afternoon. Nichols was joined by another adviser, Kurt Bardella and by Navvera Hag, who hosted the PAC’s online show “The Lincoln Report.” Late on Friday, Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt reportedly announced his resignation following accusations from PAC employees that he handled the harassment scandal poorly, according to the Daily Beast. -
Corporate Profile
2013 : Epsilon Launch Vehicle 2009 : International Space Station 1997 : M-V Launch Vehicle 1955 : The First Launched Pencil Rocket Corporate Profile Looking Ahead to Future Progress IHI Aerospace (IA) is carrying out the development, manufacture, and sales of rocket projectiles, and has been contributing in a big way to the indigenous space development in Japan. We started research on rocket projectiles in 1953. Now we have become a leading comprehensive manufacturer carrying out development and manufacture of rocket projectiles in Japan, and are active in a large number of fields such as rockets for scientific observation, rockets for launching practical satellites, and defense-related systems, etc. In the space science field, we cooperate with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to develop and manufacture various types of observational rockets named K (Kappa), L (Lambda), and S (Sounding), and the M (Mu) rockets. With the M rockets, we have contributed to the launch of many scientific satellites. In 2013, efforts resulted in the successful launch of an Epsilon Rocket prototype, a next-generation solid rocket which inherited the 2 technologies of all the aforementioned rockets. In the practical satellite booster rocket field, We cooperates with the JAXA and has responsibilities in the solid propellant field including rocket boosters, upper-stage motors in development of the N, H-I, H-II, and H-IIA H-IIB rockets. We have also achieved excellent results in development of rockets for material experiments and recovery systems, as well as the development of equipment for use in a space environment or experimentation. In the defense field, we have developed and manufactured a variety of rocket systems and rocket motors for guided missiles, playing an important role in Japanese defense. -
U.A.E. Launches First Arab Interplanetary Mission
U.A.E. Launches First Arab Interplanetary Mission Business Council Report Authors U.S. - U.A.E. Business Council The U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council is the premier business organization dedicated to advancing bilateral commercial relations. By leveraging its extensive networks in the United States and in the region, the U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council provides unparalleled access to senior decision makers in business and government with the aim of deepening bilateral trade and investment. usuaebusiness.org Hope Probe Technical Information In yet another milestone for the U.A.E. Space Program, the Emirates Mars Mission “Hope Probe” launched on July 20th 2020 for a 7-month journey to the Red Planet, where it will arrive in February 2021 to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the U.A.E. as a country. This strategic initiative, which was lb = 2,970 lb first announced by U.A.E. President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and U.A.E. Vice President and Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh 9 feet Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum in 2014, is meant to not just achieve important scientific objectives by furthering understanding of the Martian 24 feet atmosphere but also accelerate the U.A.E.’s development of a knowledge economy and inspire a generation of Emirati and Arab Youth to “dream for the stars.” This impressive feat for a space program in its relative infancy is a testament to the U.A.E.’s visionary leadership, its rapid advances in the field, and the power of partnerships, particularly with the United States. -
Applying the Microspace Philosophy at the Norwegian Space Agency
Applying the Microspace Philosophy at the Norwegian Space Agency Tyler Jones Engineer – Project Department [email protected] Overview • Space and Systems Engineering • A Few Words on “New Space” • Microspace Philosophy and «Big Space» • Microspace Project Structure and Phases • Application to AIS satellite system Space? Systems Engineering? Why space? Systems engineering? • A global perspective‐ the • Holistic approach‐ Technical Process ultimate high ground and Management Process • A clear view of the heavens‐ • Elicit and analyze user needs unobscured by the atmosphere • Determine requirements • A free‐fall environment‐ enables • Mission design advanced material development • Design synthesis • Abundant resources‐ solar energy and extraterrestrial • System validation materials • Lifecycle and stakeholder • The Final Frontier considerations A Few Words on «New Space» New Space refers to the emergence of private spaceflight companies and ventures that operate more or less independent of governments and traditional major contractors. • Commercially motivated, not political or socioeconomically • Private rather than governmental finance • Faster, Better, Cheaper ∵ Commercial ∴ Microspace «Big Space» Systems Engineering Global Navigation Satellite System 30x 700 kg satellites Engineering Reviewing Testing 1999 initial contract 18 years 2017 IOC Microspace Philosophy Reduce the development, platform, launch, and operations costs of useful satellite systems • Streamline large procurement processes to an “appropriate” level • Replace expensive space grade parts with industrial grade parts (COTS) • Heavy on‐board redundancy is replaced by multi‐platform redundancy • Extensive component and sub‐component test campaigns are replaced by integrated system test • Accepting the technical limitations, lifetime and risk associated with this design philosophy A 700 kg mission and acquisition program doesn’t scale to a 7 kg satellite! Microspace Systems Enginering 0/ A B C D E F ? Mission/ MD RFI MRR Function 1. -
Cooperative and Robotic Space Systems (6)
IAC CyberSpace Edition 2020 Paper ID: 61298 oral IAF SPACE SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM (D1) Cooperative and Robotic Space Systems (6) Author: Mr. Rod Mamin Spacebit Global Ltd, United Kingdom, [email protected] Mr. Charles Lauer Rocketplane Global, Inc., United States, [email protected] Mr. Pavlo Tanasyuk Spacebit Global Ltd, United Kingdom, [email protected] SMALL ROBOTIC SWARM TECHNOLOGIES FOR LUNAR SURFACE EXPLORATION Abstract Spacebit Global is now completing development of its first robotic surface exploration rover scheduled to land on the Moon in the fall of 2021 on the Astrobotic Peregrine lander for their NASA CLPS first mission. The Asagumo rover will deploy from the Peregrine lander and move at least 10 meters from the lander using its unique leg system of locomotion under tele-operation control through the WIFI system resources on the lander. This technology demonstration mission will last for up to 8 days on the lunar surface, and validate the key systems including the legs, the wide field cameras and the 3D LIDAR scanners as well as the ability to tele-operate the rover. The ultimate goal of Spacebit is to use a swarm of Asagumo walking rovers deployed from a wheeled Mother Ship rover to climb down into the surface opening of a lunar lava tube and map the interior of the cave system using its HD cameras and 3D LIDAR surface scanners and temperature and radiation sensors. The swarm rovers and the Mother Ship carrier can also be used for surface assays of mineral and water deposits in lunar craters. For lunar surface mineral assay missions, sensors can be embedded into the feet or the ventral surface of the rover bodies. -
JAXA Launches Its First Startup-Built Satellite RAPIS-1 & 6 Other Satellites
JAXA launches its first startup-built satellite RAPIS-1 & 6 other satellites By Deyana Goh - January 21, 2019 “RAPIS-1” (RAPid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite 1), a small satellite commissioned by Japan’s space agency JAXA and designed and operated by newspace startup Axelspace was successfully launched from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan at 9:50 AM of January 18th, 2019. The 200-kg satellite was launched by JAXA’s light launch vehicle, Epsilon-4, along with six other microsatellites and cubesats. The successful separation of RAPIS-1 was confirmed about 50 minutes after launch. RAPIS-1 is part of JAXA’s Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration Program, an initiative to provide in-orbit validation opportunities to external entities, with the objective of strengthening the technologies behind core satellite components. The Japanese Government’s space program has scheduled four demonstration launch opportunities, one every two years. This launch represents the first of these four and is termed “Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-1”, and carries seven demonstration experiments. These demonstrations are: Testing the space environment tolerance of a field-programmable gate array (FGPA), by NEC 2-3 Gbps X-band downlink in-orbit demonstration by Keio University Green Propellant Reaction Control System (GPRCS) by Japan Space Systems Space Particle Monitor (SPM) by Japan Space Systems Deep learning attitude sensor/star tracker by Tokyo Institute of Technology Light-weight solar panel apparatus by JAXA Miniaturized low-power GNSS receiver by Chubu University So far, the RAPIS-1’s critical operation phase has been passed, and the satellite has begun performing check-out operations on all the on-board components which is likely to last a month. -
Des Mesures Pour Le Climat
LE MAGAZINE QUI PREND DE LA HAUTEUR N°0.2 /// 28 NOVEMBRE 2015 Spatium OBSERVATION DE LA TERRE DES MESURES POUR LE CLIMAT ESPACE / PREMIER INDUSTRIE / ZODIac DÉFENSE / qui CONTRÔLE VOL COMMERCIAL VEUT SURMONTER l’espace AÉRIEN EXPORT DU H-2A LA CRISE DE Daech ? DOSSIER SAVOIR POUR DES MESURES COMPRENDRE POUR LE CLIMAT ➥ STEFAN BARENSKY Tout le monde a entendu parler du battement d’ailes de papillon au Japon qui suffirait à déclencher un ouragan SOMMAIRE #0.2 dans le golfe du Mexique. Dans l’imaginaire collectif, Notre couverture : Évolution de la concentration en phytoplancton à la surface de l’océan entre octobre 2014 et octobre 2015 lors du déclenchement du phénomène « El Niño » d’après la l’atmosphère terrestre est depuis longtemps l’archétype 28.11.15 concentration en chlorophylle mesurée par l’instrument Modis du satellite Aqua . Crédit : Nasa. du système chaotique, par essence imprévisible en dessous d’un certain niveau de détail. Pourtant nous n’avons de cesse de la modéliser. Voilà plus d’un demi-siècle, c’est le besoin de prévoir le temps qu’il va faire qui a conduit /04 INDUSTRIE /13 DÉFENSE /20 espace /34 DOSSIER au développement des premiers supercalculateurs et des ZODIac VEUT LA RUSSIE RÉTABLIT sa LA nasa COMMANDE COPERNICUS premiers satellites météorologiques. SURMONTER LA CRISE capacITÉ DE VEILLE spaTIALE UN VOL À spaceX ACTE TROIS Aujourd’hui l’atmosphère n’est /07 INDUSTRIE /14 espace /22 TECHNOLOGIES /35 À SUIVRE qu’un des éléments d’un système DES CAPTEURS l’A320NEO ET LE LEAP PREMIER VOL COMMERCIAL BLUE ORIGIN RÉUSSIT SON NOMINATIONS plus complexe que la science tente DOUBLEMENT CERTIFIÉS à l’EXPORT DU H-2A RETOUR AVANT spaceX DEVRONT ÉVALUER /36 À SUIVRE Spatium de modéliser pour en comprendre LES EFFETS DES /08 DÉFENSE /17 espace /26 DOSSIER l’iNTERMINABLE RETOUR DU les rouages. -
Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University INTRODUCTION
Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University INTRODUCTION Learn System Design and Management in English While Being in Japan —A Gateway to New Perspectives and Distinct Careers Broaden Your Horizons with World-Class, Cutting-Edge Knowledge The Graduate School of System Design and Management at Keio University (Keio SDM) pursues problem solving with a “systems” approach by capitalizing on a broad range of perspectives from the natural sciences as well as from the humanities and social sciences. Mid way between downtown Tokyo and Yokohama close to both by train, Keio SDM enables students to learn the world’s leading systems en- gineering and design thinking in both Japanese and English. Keio SDM has a diverse student population made up of various backgrounds, age-groups, and na- tionalities. Not all students have a background in natural sciences and engineering; and many are professionals who are working in Japanese enterprises and government organizations. At Keio SDM students have ample opportunities to broaden their views by studying alongside these individuals as they encounter diverse values and ways of thinking. About Keio University Keio University is among the most prestigious private universities in Japan. It was founded in 1858 by Yukichi Fukuzawa, a leader of modern Japan who is also known as the man portrayed on Japan’s 10,000-yen note. Many Keio alumni are successfully leading in a wide range of fields, including business, technologies, politics, and edu- cation. Being a Keio graduate is perceived as prestigious