October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
.... Moreover, space infrastructure directly relates to important Australian sectors such as agriculture, bush fire and flood monitoring, mining, outback communication, finance, border control and the surf report. Australia needs its own polar orbiting...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
... is no available coverage). Fleet says the main applications for its small data-network are oil & gas, mining, agriculture, transport and logistics, science and research, environmental monitoring, consumer IoT applications and simple communications...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
...we also greatly devote to developing new filters for picture apps, or mining bitcoins. Resources we have used to put a small statue on the ..., establishing a stronger presence on the Moon, or mining asteroids. Meanwhile, however, let’s keep the space ...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
...efficient as possible. However, if water can in the future be mined on the surface of the Moon or Mars, the bioregenerative life ...operations, the water can be directly used where it was mined. Even for space operations, this approach is beneficial due...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... lead to new possibilities of local extraction from lunar-based mines, both robotic and astronaut tended. NASA’s Mars 2020 rover... skill, but robotic-led activity seems likely for mining and industrial plant activity. Teleoperation from Mars or lunar...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
... of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) flyby mission to Mars. And with the burgeoning interest in asteroid mining, a disruption in the mining sector may well be on the horizon, something for which novel propulsion systems will become critical...
