The 16Th Australian Space Research Conference
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Welcome to the 16th Australian Space Research Conference and to RMIT University, Melbourne! This will be the Tenth ASRC jointly sponsored and organised by the National Committee for Space and Radio Science (NCSRS) and the National Space Society of Australia (NSSA). The ASRC is intended to be the primary annual meeting for Australian research relating to space science. It welcomes space scientists, engineers, educators, and workers in Industry and Government. The 16th ASRC has over 140 accepted abstracts across Australian space research, academia, education, industry, and government. We would like to thank RMIT University and the International Space University – Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program for their sponsorship of the conference. Special thanks also go to the Australian Space Mars Society Australia (MSA) for its support. We look forward to an excellent meeting! Iver Cairns Wayne Short Co Chair ASRC 2016 Co Chair ASRC 2016 University of Sydney President, NSSA 1 Contents About the NSSA ...................................................................... 3 About the NCSRS .................................................................... 4 Program Committee & Organisers ............................................. 5 Venue Details ......................................................................... 7 Program Overview .................................................................. 9 Detailed Program .................................................................. 10 Invited Speakers .................................................................. 21 Oral Presentations ................................................................ 30 Poster Presentations ............................................................. 37 Collection of Abstracts ........................................................... 39 2 About the NSSA The National Space Society of Australia is the coming together of like-minded space enthusiasts who share a vision for the future in which there is an ambitious and vigorous space program leading to eventual space settlement. To this end the National Space Society (worldwide) promotes interest in space exploration, research, development and habitation through events such as science and business conferences, speaking to the press, public outreach events, speaking engagements with community groups and schools, and other pro-active events. We do this to stimulate advancement and development of space and related applications and technologies and by bringing together people from government, industry and all walks of life for the free exchange of information. As a non-profit organisation, the National Space Society of Australia draws its strength from an enthusiastic membership who contributes their time and effort to assist the Society in pursuit of its goals. For more information, and to become a member: www.nssa.com.au Ad Astra! Wayne Short NSSA President 2016 3 About the NCSRS The National Committee for Space and Radio Science (NCSRS) is chartered by the Australian Academy of Science to foster space science, to link Australian space scientists together and to their international colleagues, and to advise the Academy’s Council on policy for science in general and space and radio science in particular. The NCSRS was formed in 2012 by combining the former National Committee for Space Science (NCSS) and the National Committee for Radio Science (NCRS). The NCSRS web page can be reached at https://www.science.org.au/committee/space-and-radio-science NCSRS believes that ASRC meetings provide a natural venue to link Australian space scientists and foster the associated science, two of its core goals. As well as ASRC, NCSRS is also sponsoring the VSSEC – NASA Australian Space Prize. This is the sixth ASRC meeting following launch of the first Decadal Plan for Australian Space Science. NCSRS encourages people to work together to accomplish the Plan’s vision: “Build Australia a long term, productive presence in Space via world-leading innovative space science and technology, strong education and outreach, and international collaborations.” 4 Program Committee & Organisers 2016 ASRC Program Committee Jeremy Bailey (UNSW Australia) Annalea Beattie (Mars Society Australia) Russell Boyce (UNSW Australia, Canberra) Iver Cairns (University of Sydney), Chair Graziella Caprarelli (University of South Australia) Brett Carter (RMIT University) Jonathan Clarke (Mars Society of Australia) Andrew Dempster (UNSW Australia) Brad Evans (University of Sydney) Alice Gorman (Finders University) Duane Hamacher (UNSW Australia) Trevor Harris (Defence Science and Technology Group, Department of Defence) Jonathan Horner (University of Southern Queensland) Alexey Kondyurin (University of Sydney) Roberto Sabatini (RMIT University) Michael Smart (University of Queensland) Kefei Zhang (RMIT University) 5 2016 ASRC Organising Committee Sarah Barter RMIT University, operations and secretariat Cheryl Brown ACSER, UNSW Australia, secretariat Annalea Beattie Mars Society Australia Iver Cairns Co Chair ASRC 2016 University of Sydney Brett Carter RMIT university Jonathan Horner University of Southern Queensland Guy Murphy Mars Society Australia Robert Norman RMIT University Roberto Sabatini RMIT University Wayne Short Co Chair ASSC 2016 President, NSSA Kefei Zhang RMIT University Chair, local organising committee 6 Venue Details Conference Venue Details Storey Hall (Building 16) 336-348 Swanston st, Melbourne RMIT University city campus The conference secretariat will be in the foyer area on level 5. Teas and lunches will also be served in the foyer area each day. All Plenary sessions will be held in the main theatre on level 5. The poster session (Tuesday) will be held in the foyer & main entrance. Day 1: September 26 Stream 1 - Main theatre (level 5) Stream 2 - Conference rooms 1/2 (level 7) Stream 3 - Seminar rooms 1/2 (level 7) Day 2: September 27 Stream 1 - Main theatre (level 5) Stream 2 - Conference rooms 1/2 (level 7) Stream 3 - Seminar rooms 1/2 (level 7) Women in Space Lunch - Seminar rooms 3/4 (level 7) Day 3: September 28 Stream 1 - Main theatre (level 5) Stream 2 - AM sessions - Conference rooms 1/2 (level 7) Stream 3 - PM sessions - Seminar Rooms 1/2 (level 7) Public MSA talk - Storey Hall Lecture theatre (level 2) Gala Dinner Monday September 26 6:30 pm for a 7:00pm start Dress: Smart casual Location: Old Melbourne Gaol 377 Russell st, Melbourne 7 Location of conference facilities – RMIT University city campus 8 Program Overview 9 Detailed Program Monday - Stream 1 (Storey Hall main theatre) Time Speakers Name Title 7:45-9:00 Registration 9:00-9:10 Iver Cairns, Wayne Welcome to ASRC Short 9:10-9:20 Acting Vice Welcome to RMIT University Chancellor, Professor Paul Gough Plenary Session I CHAIR: Iver Cairns 9:20-9:50 Prof Frances Exploration of the Outer Solar Bagenal, University System: New Horizons at Pluto of Colorado and Juno at Jupiter 9:50-10:20 Dr Gordon J. Frazer, Wide field-of-view sensing for DST Group surveillance-of-space 10:20-10:50 Dr Robert Norman, RMIT SPACE Research Centre – RMIT University overview of past and present research endeavours 10:50-11:15 Morning Tea National Context CHAIR: Russell Boyce 11:15-11:30 John Le Marshall Earth Observation from Space (Bureau of Meteorology) 11:30-11:45 Ben Greene SERC 11:45-12:00 Mark Todd DIIS (Civil Space, Cyber Security and ICT) 12:00-12:15 Kirco Arsov BoM Space Weather Services 12:15-12:30 Nick Stacy DST Group 12:30-12:45 Alice Gorman SIAA / IAC2017 12:45-13:00 Russell Boyce NCSRS 13:00-14:00 Lunch Space Engineering: Cubesats CHAIR: David Lingard 14:00-14:15 Andrew Dempster, Evaluation of Current and UNSW Australia Projected CubeSat Propulsion Technologies for Navigating Cislunar Space 14:15-14:30 Angus Muffatti, RMIT Multi-objective Design Optimisation of a small scale Cusped Field Thruster for micro satellite platforms 10 Time Speakers Name Title 14:30-14:45 Prof Christine Plasma experiments in the Charles, ANU laboratory and space: the emerging role of ‘CubeSat’ nano- satellites and miniaturised propulsion systems. 14:45-15:00 Roger Dudziak, Passive Thermal Control System UNSW Canberra for CubeSats 15:00-15:15 Dr Li Qiao, UNSW Knowledge exploration for Canberra CubeSat design trade space using multi-dimensional scaling and clustering 15:15-15:30 Dr Andrew Wabnitz , SpaceLink: A Lightweight, Robust DST Group and Secure Communication Link for Small Satellites 15:30-15:45 George Coulloupas, A Systems Engineering Approach RMIT University to Miniaturised Satellite Constellation Design Optimisation 15:45-16:00 Victor Lim, RMIT Optimising the launch, University deployment and performance of a smallsat constellation 16:00-16:30 Afternoon Tea Cubesats CHAIR: Christine Charles / Jason Held 16:30-16:50 Dr David Lingard , Australian Participation in the DST Group Biarri CubeSat Missions 16:50-17:10 Dr Douglas Griffin, DST Group and UNSW Canberra UNSW Canberra Buccaneer Programme Status and Plans 17:10-17:30 Dr Matthew Tetlow, The SUSat QB50 mission Inovor Technologies 17:30-17:50 Prof Andrew Updates and progress of UNSW- Dempster, ACSER, EC0 Cubesat UNSW Australia 17:50-18:10 Prof Iver Cairns, The INSPIRE-2 / AU03 Cubesat University of Sydney for the QB50 Project 18:30-21:30 ASRC Gala Dinner 11 Monday - Stream 2 (Conference Rooms 1/2) Time Speakers Name Title CHAIRS: Space & Atmospheric Physics Fred Menk/Robert Norman 14:00-14:15 Dr Alina Donea, Far side imaging of the Sun for space Monash University weather prediction: how many active regions do we miss? 14:15-14:30