To celebrate Yuri’s Night (Monday the 15th), ADFA are hosting a public lecture on mining and manufacturing in space. Daniel Faber of Deep Space Industries in Belgium will be talking talk about prospecting near Earth asteroids.
That sounds pretty awesome.
Deep Space Industries prospects, harvests and processes space resources and is developing a fleet of low cost [...]

After many long years of hosting a decaying eyesore the people of Macquarie at last have a demolition site to look at.
Who would have thought this day would come!

It’s that time again when we get to look up and see the only place where humans live other than on Earth zipping across our skies. The International Space Station has a number of very bright passes coming up over the next few days—some at fairly family-friendly times (given it’s school holidays anyway).
For Canberra people [...]

The Sydney Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) proudly presents the…
AEROSPACE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Date: Tuesday 13 November 2012
Time: 6:00pm till 7:30pm
Location: Engineering Lecture Theatre, Building #32, Faulty of Engineering, Off North Road, Australian National University, Canberra
Join us for the annual AIAA Aerospace Research Symposium and find out about the latest aerospace research [...]

To celebrate World Space Week, the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics and Mars Society Australia proudly presents…
PLANETARY GEOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS
Presenter: Dr. Jonathan Clarke – Australian Centre for Astrobiology & President, Mars Society Australia
Date: Thursday 4 October 2012 at 6:30pm
Location: RSPE Seminar Room, Oliphant Building #60, Research School of Physics & Engineering, Mills Road, The [...]

Weather permitting, there are some good space viewing opportunities for Canberra people over the next week or so. Planets, stars, the International Space Station, and even a manned Soyuz launch to hunt out.
First, the beautiful morning conjunctions with Jupiter and the very bright Venus continue and even get better. For two weeks now these two [...]

People here asked for updates of space events of note, including particularly good opportunities for viewing the only place where humans live other than on Earth – the International Space Station.
So here are a few long ISS passes over the next three days. Friday’s pass is lower in the sky (see the maximum elevation of [...]

It has become a real community eyesore and environmental hazard with lots of loose iron flapping in the breeze.
With a real gust of wind the iron will end up on cars in the Jamison Plaza carpark or in neighbouring gardens or in the adjacent children’s playground.
The development proposal for the site is for [...]

[ 12 October, 2011; 6:00 pm; ]

This has come over my desk and looks interesting:

The Sydney Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) and the CSIRO Discovery Centre proudly present a panel discussion on…

AUSTRALIA’S SPACE ACTIVITIES

Date: Wednesday 12 October 2011
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Optus Lecture Theatre, CSIRO Discovery Centre, Clunies Ross Street, Acton, Canberra

Listen, learn and ask questions of three [...]

ANU have announced they are slipping the surly bonds of earth and have trousered $3.1 million in Commonwealth money to build help satellites.
They’ll be building space simulation facility here in Canberra for Australian groups to test equipment in.
Lots of vacuum, extreme temperatures, and hard radiation then?

[ 24 May, 2010; 6:30 pm; ] The Sydney Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) proudly presents

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN SPACE EXPLORATION, DEFENCE & COMMERCE

by David Thompson – Chairman & CEO, Orbital Sciences Corporation

Date: Monday 24th May 2010 at 6:30pm
Location: Japan Theatre, Questacon, King Edward Terrace, Canberra

This public lecture is FREE and all are welcome.
No RSVP required. For more [...]

[ 11 November, 2009; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ]

PLANETARY GEOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS
Date: Wednesday 11th November
Time: 5:30pm for a 6:00pm start
Location: Geoscience Australia’s Education Centre, Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave & Hindmarsh Dr, Symonston, Canberra
RSVPs Essential: By 6th November to aiaa.sydneysection@gmail.com

More details…..

Following it’s success last year, Mars Society Australia and the AIAA Sydney Section are proud to once again present:

PLANETARY GEOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS

Fascinated by the latest [...]

[ 23 July, 2009; 6:00 pm; ] As part of the International Year of Astronomy, the local section of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) in partnership with Questacon proudly presents

AS WE SHALL RETURN: NASA’S NEW INITIATIVE TO LAND ASTRONAUTS ON THE MOON

by Wayne Lee, Altair Vehicle Systems Manager, NASA JPL

Tonight at 6pm at the Japan Theatre at Questacon, King [...]

The ABC has word that the CSIRO’s lodged a development application to build two new big dishes at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex out at Tidbinbilla.
Construction of the $60 million 34-metre dishes is expected to start next year.
Complex director Miriam Baltuck says the first antenna will be operational in time to track the New [...]

The ANU have proudly announced that their Space Plasma Power and Propulsion group have sold a plasma thruster design to EADS-Astrium for use in a satellite.
“EADS-Astrium has decided to fund the University of Surrey to produce a prototype Helicon Double layer thruster suitable for space use. For this to occur the University of Surrey requires [...]

[ 2 December, 2008; 6:30 pm; ] The local American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics section is proudly hosting a FREE screening of…

THE RIGHT STUFF – A HISTORY OF NASA’S MERCURY PROGRAM

The Right Stuff tells the story of ordinary men and women who shared a common ambition and together captured the imagination of the world. Beginning with the breaking of the sound [...]

[ 17 March, 2008; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The local American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics Section
presents:

THE CANBERRA DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS COMPLEX IN 2008

Dr. Miriam Baltuck
Director, Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex & NASA Operations, CSIRO Industrial Physics

Dr. Baltuck will give an overview of the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex at Tidbinbilla, its history and the spacecraft missions it enables as well as outline [...]

There was a thread running a couple of weeks ago about the closure of the Planetarium and Observatory at Dickson. This post is for anyone who wants to support the continued existence of this facility for public education and raising the awareness of the general community about astronomy.
We of the Planetarium & Observatory Association [...]