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Help shape our future communications

The Australian Space Agency is reviewing how we communicate with our stakeholders and we want to hear from you. Wherever you sit in your organisation, from admin to sales to technical, or you just have an interest in the Australian Space Industry, we want you to tell us what we're doing right and where we can improve. The results of this survey will help inform how we shape our future communications to make sure we're giving you information, at the right time and how you like to receive it.

The online survey, conducted by an independent market and social research firm, Fiftyfive5 will take around 5-8 minutes and all responses are non-identified. You can also close your browser and finish at a later time.

Please feel free to share this link with interested colleagues. The survey will close Monday 9th February 2020.

Take me to the survey

An additional survey will be sent next week to seek your input to an economic analysis of Australia’s space industry, including a baseline against which the Agency will use to monitor the growth and transformation of the sector.

Final call for Moon 2 Mars submissions

Following a week of fruitful public consultations across the country on the design of the $150 million Moon to Mars initiative and grant opportunities, we are putting a final call out for your valuable feedback on the program design. Watch the Canberra consultation session and have your say via our Consultation Hub (submissions close on 6 March 2020).

Australian Space Agency HQ opens

Our Deputy Head, Anthony Murfett, talks more about the opening of the Australian Space Agency HQ with the Weekend Sunrise team, including plans for an Australian Space Discovery Centre to inspire the next generation into space careers. Watch here >

NASA-ANU Space workshop in Adelaide

Last week the Australian Space Agency and ANU Institute of Space hosted a three-day Optical and Advanced Communications workshop with NASA. Attendees from the Australian space industry, including CSIRO, heard insights from NASA’s Badri Younes and took a tour of the Agency’s newly opened headquarters in Adelaide .

AEO Forum

Present alongside earth observation experts and achieve prime networking opportunities by submitting your abstract for AEO 2020. Abstracts and workshop proposals may cover, though are not limited to, the use of satellite, airborne and drone data. Abstract submissions close 16 April 2020. Authors will be notified within 2 weeks of submitting their abstract.
Find out more.

Swinburne experiment

An experiment designed by high school students studying the effects of microgravity on plant growth was launched aboard the Antares rocket on 18 February. The Swinburne University Space Office team who are mentoring the students have reported that the experiment is officially up and running on the International Space Station.

50th Anniversary for Oscar 5

Fifty years ago, Australia’s second satellite was launched in the U.S., piggy-backed with a NASA weather satellite. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Australis-OSCAR 5, the University of Melbourne, now home to the Melbourne Space Program, held an event honouring the original Australis team, several of whom were in attendance. The Agency was proud to support this event as a tribute to these Australian space pioneers.
Watch a Nine News' story with one of the satellite creators, Dr Owen Mace, and the Agency's Anthony Murfett.

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