Impression of one UNSW’s three miniature satellites launched into space this year.
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We don’t need another review of Australia’s space industry, we just need a space agency.
‘Entangled’ beams successfully picked up at Earth.
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The ‘entangled’ light particles spookily interact with each other at huge distances.
Scientists use satellite sensing to find the Earth’s centre of mass.
NASA
Driverless cars and drones will require pinpoint location accuracy, which means our methods for measuring the Earth’s centre need an overhaul.
A scale model of one of the two LAGEOS satellites.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
We know much about the true shape of our planet is thanks to two satellites that act as targets for lasers fired from Earth.
Qantas is currently trialling its new satellite broadband inflight service.
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Customers on land and in the sky are placing increasing demands on Skymuster satellites for broadband Wi-Fi delivery - can NBC Co deliver?
An artist’s impression of the UNSW-EC0 cubesat in Earth’s orbit.
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Australia’s hoping to take a share of the billion-dollar space industry with the launch of its first totally Australian-built satellites in 15 years.
Average carbon dioxide concentrations, Oct. 1 -
Nov. 11, 2014, measured by the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite.
NASA
Why use satellites to study Earth’s climate? Researchers leading a new mission explain how images from space will help them analyze which parts of the Americas soak up the most carbon.
NOAA/NASA GOES Project
The Earth’s magnetic field acts like a giant instrument playing magnetic music.
Tiny CubeSats are ready to be our eyes in the skies.
Earth Background: NASA; HARP Spacecraft: SDL; Montage: Martins, UMBC
As technology advances, tiny satellites no bigger than a loaf of bread have advanced from just proving they work to being big contributors in answering science questions.
You can only truly understand the weather by flying above the clouds.
NASA
Far from being “politicised science”, as a Trump advisor has claimed, NASA’s satellite monitoring has been a crucial help in understanding the planet we live on.
Hush.
NASA
Listen to some weird space sounds and help identify crunches, whistles and other odd effects. It could help save our satellites.
Artist’s impression.
James Vaughan
Asgardia is calling for unrestricted research but history has given us many examples where this has resulted in unacceptable consequences.
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The Micius satellite will encrypt data using fundamental laws of physics rather than crackable codes.
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Plans to send a satellite around the moon using fuel from water point to a renewable future.
Researchers at several institutions are searching for microbial solutions for Africa’s low-performing staple crops.
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Microbial-based solutions are perhaps the best-kept secret in agricultural innovation.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Our growing dependency on satellites for all forms of communication has made the problem of space weather even more acute.
It’s pretty busy up there.
NASA
Back of the net! Litter-picking mission will leave space junk caught up in a web.
There are jobs to be created if Australia does more to tap into the billion-dollar space industry.
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Increasing Australia’s role in the billion-dollar global space industry has hardly raised a mention in this year’s federal election campaign.
Fields showing little signs of plant emergence at a late stage of the season, indicating a near total crop loss in Zimbabwe.
Chris Funk
Satellite rainfall data can be used to predict harsh climate events – and to identify food-insecure populations before disaster strikes.
CubeSats upon release from the International Space Station.
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Just about anyone can get a tiny, cheap satellite into orbit these days. As we consider how to deploy them responsibly, inspiration comes from an amateur community of enthusiasts.