Have your say: Modern Manufacturing Strategy
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The Australian Government's Modern Manufacturing Strategy will turbo-charge Australian industry, driving economic growth and creating jobs.
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As part of the Australian Government’s $1.5 billion Modern Manufacturing Strategy, the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources is seeking your views on what the key strengths, opportunities and solutions are to grow manufacturing in 6 priority areas, including space.
Share your views on the Modern Manufacturing Strategy road maps. Closes 9 November 2020 > Start the Survey.
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Join our team - we are hiring!
If you have always wanted to work at the Australian Space Agency, there has never been a better time to apply.
We are hiring for roles in Enterprise Risk and Regulations with a focus on engineering and the domestic legislative framework.
More roles to be added, we encourage you to bookmark this page and follow us on social media so you don't miss this opportunity. View our roles and apply today.
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Opportunities in manufacturing
As the space supply chain is becoming more globalised, and innovation is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, we invite you to hear from an AMGC panel of space industry experts, including our Deputy Head Anthony Murfett. The webinar shares how Australian companies are translating their skills and capabilities into the manufacture of components required for the space industry. Watch the webinar>
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NASA RFI - Lunar Communications Relay and Navigation Services
NASA is seeking to improve their communications and navigation capabilities to support the Artemis program. In this Request for Information (RFI), potential providers are invited to respond to assist in planning NASA’s strategy. Read more on the RFI>
Robotics in space
Weight is crucial to conserving fuel to reach space. Soft robots (think Disney's Baymax) that inflate at an end destination will be more compact and lighter to use in space. ANU are embarking on research focussing on a molecular tool that can be used to improve functions of soft robots. Called Aquaporin, this protein maybe useful for exploring worlds beyond Earth.
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Curtin to analyse Bennu sample
Last week, 321km from Earth, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm to collect dust and pebbles from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The Canberra Deep Space Network remains in communication with OSIRIS-REx as it begins the journey back to Earth.
Bennu offers scientists including Prof Phil Bland from Curtin University the opportunity to analyse this material when it returns to Earth in 2023. Samples from the asteroid may reveal insights into the early history of the solar system, and molecular precursors to the origin of life.
Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
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WA to host space communications station
The new WA advanced communications ground station will receive data from spacecraft anywhere between low-Earth orbit and the surface of the Moon. A joint initiative of UWA’s International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) and Goonhilly Earth Station. Read more >
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COSPAR-K 2021
Get involved in COSPAR-K, a free space STEM Event in January-February 2021. There are online activities that schools can participate in right now.
Amelia, Yr4 student features a boat finding eggs from the 'Emu in the sky'.
At the event, a dedicated STEM Park will feature an array of interactive experiences and activations for students, teachers and parents to get hands on and participate in so that space can continue to ignite passion in our future thinkers and leaders.
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Seeds in space
Who wants a space wattle tree? One Giant Leap Australia Foundation will be sending wattle seeds to the International Space Station this November in collaboration with JAXA. The seeds will be in space for 6 months and then return to Australia in time for the 2021 Science Week. Australian schools - it's your turn to get involved. Apply now and you could be receiving some of the seeds to plant when they return to Earth!
Applications close midnight, 30 October 2020.
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Rapid healing set for space
Congratulations to Rapair Medical Devices, an Australian company who have won the 2020 NASA iTech Cycle II. Through NASA’s iTech initiative, the agency finds and considers inventive technologies that could help it accomplish future exploration goals.
Rapair's wound dressing aims to nano-engineer molecules in damaged skin to rapidly repair cuts and lacerations. A sample will be heading to the International Space Station for astronauts to test in micro and zero gravity. The team are looking forward to this technology one day being on the Moon and on to Mars!
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