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8TH SPACE FORUM
& 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE
RESEARCH CONFERENCE
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST JOINT SPACE SCIENCE
& SPACE INDUSTRY CONFERENCE
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
30 SEPTEMBER - 2 OCTOBER 2019
Supported by the:
30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 1
8TH SPACE FORUM & 19TH AUSTRALIAN
SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE PREMIER’S
MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER TO WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2019
ADELAIDE CONVENTION CENTRE, WEST BUILDING
WELCOME
HALLS L, M & N AND CITY ROOMS 1 TO 4
Follow us:
South Australian Space Industry Centre: @SASIC_Aus
Australian Academy of Science: @Science_Academy
National Space Society of Australia: @NSSA_President
Join the conversation: #SASpaceForum
IT IS MY PLEASURE will enhance the global competitiveness
of these start-ups and accelerate their
TO WELCOME YOU brilliant ideas and projects on the world
stage. Now in its second year, the program
TO THE 8TH SPACE has successfully launched 10 companies in
FORUM. South Australia.
The South Australian Government is
Bringing together a record number of
committed to building on this momentum
space companies, entrepreneurs, students
in the space sector and ensuring the
and international players, this is the nation’s
next generation take advantage of the
largest yet.
opportunities in the growing space industry.
We are jointly hosting the forum with
Our Space Industry Work Experience
one of the nation’s largest annual meetings
pilot program received huge support
of researchers in space science and
with nearly 100 South Australian students
technology, the 19th Australian Space
expressing their interest in the initiative,
Research Conference.
demonstrating the passion and enthusiasm
This is yet another vote of confidence
young people have for space. I would like
CONTENTS
in our booming space sector and will
to especially thank the 14 business and
open avenues for collaboration between
other organisations that are supporting the
researchers and Australian industry.
program by hosting a placement.
We have an opportunity to put our
Thank you to our sponsors, speakers and
nation on the map globally, and drive
the range of organisations for their support
growth across the space sector.
and commitment to this important event,
03 PREMIER’S WELCOME 30 POSTER SESSIONS Our efforts in creating a thriving
which provides a fantastic platform for
ecosystem for entrepreneurship, innovation
networking across this rapidly developing
05 ASRC WELCOME 34 SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES and future industries, through the
industry.
development of Lot Fourteen, is giving
06 ABOUT SASIC 52 SPONSOR AND EXHIBITOR current and aspiring innovators the
PROFILES opportunities to grow their ideas right here
06 ABOUT THE NSSA in South Australia.
72 EXHIBITION FLOORPLAN In another step to growing our local
07 ABOUT THE NCSRS space industry, a further five start-up
75 CONFERENCE MAP companies were recently selected to
10 PROGRAM AT A GLANCE Hon Steven Marshall MP
undertake our Venture Catalyst Space
78 ASRC CODE OF CONDUCT incubator program. Delivered by the
Premier of South Australia
12 DAVID COOPER
University of South Australia’s Innovation
MEMORIAL LECTURE
and Collaboration Centre, the program
14 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
2 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 3
23 - 28 FEBRUARY 2021 AVALON AIRPORT, GEELONG, AUSTRALIA
C E L E B R AT I N G T H E C E N T E N A RY
of the
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE
1921 - 2021
WELCOME TO THE We would like to thank the Australian
Space Agency and the South Australian
19TH AUSTRALIAN Space industry Centre for sponsorship of
the conference. Our conference dinner
SPACE RESEARCH sponsor is the Space Industry Association
CONFERENCE of Australia.
Special thanks also go to the Mars
AND TO ADELAIDE Society Australia for its programming
support.
CONVENTION We look forward to an excellent meeting.
CENTRE! Iver Cairns
Co Chair ASRC 2019
This will be the Thirteenth ASRC jointly
University of Sydney
sponsored and organised by the National
Committee for Space and Radio Science
Wayne Short
(NCSRS) and the National Space Society
Co Chair ASRC 2019
of Australia (NSSA). The ASRC is intended
AUSTRALIAN
President, NSSA
to be the primary annual meeting for
Australian research relating to space
SPACE INDUSTRY
science. It welcomes space scientists,
engineers, educators, and workers in
industry and government. This year sees
CONFERENCE 2021
the conference being held alongside the
8th Space Forum.
The 19th ASRC has 200 accepted
abstracts across Australian space research,
academia, education, industry, and
government.
www.airshow.com.au
AVALON MEANS BUSINESS!
4 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 5
ABOUT SASIC through the Space Innovation Fund of up
to $1 million every year to young space ABOUT THE NCSRS A vision for space science and technology:
Securing and advancing Australia’s
entrepreneurs, along with new and existing interests through space research in
space start-ups. Australia was published in September
The space industry challenges the 2017 and presents the strategic vision for
innovative skills of our best researchers and an Australian space sector and space
engineers and it inspires young people to industry. The plan outlines strategies to
develop the skills to push forward the lead Australia into a future that embraces
frontiers of scientific knowledge. The industry a vibrant space sector and space
also contributes to the development of industry, underpinned by space science
Already home to over 80 space-related
other priority sectors for South Australia and technology, and in due course
organisations, South Australia is committed
including defence, agriculture, mining supported by a national space agency.
to further growing the local industry and
and tourism, as well as services for the The National Committee for Space and
build on the state’s history of space activity. National Committee for Space and Radio
community such as health and education. Radio Science consulted extensively with
Established in 2017 by the Government of Science (NCSRS) aims to foster the space
broad a representation of researchers and
South Australia, the South Australian Space For more information and radio sciences in Australia, to link
organisations to create this plan.
Industry Centre (SASIC) was created to drive please contact SASIC via: the Australian Academy of Science to
space industry innovation, research and Australian space and radio scientists and The NCSRS web page can be reached at
entrepreneurial development.
WWW.SASIC.SA.GOV.AU relevant scientific societies, and to serve
The SASIC supports space entrepreneurs, as a link between Australian and overseas WWW.SCIENCE.ORG.AU/COMMITTEE/
T +61 8 8463 7140
creates an incubator for space projects and space and radio scientists, primarily SPACE-AND-RADIO-SCIENCE
E spaceoffice@sa.gov.au
an environment where new space through the International Union for Radio
technologies can be rapidly developed, Nicola Sasanelli Sciences, the Scientific Committee on Solar-
and supports South Australia’s emerging Director Terrestrial Physics and the Committee on
space industry by providing grant funding South Australian Space Industry Centre Space Research.
ABOUT THE NSSA habitation through events such as science
and business conferences, speaking to the COMMITTEES
press, public outreach events, speaking
2019 ASRC Program Committee 2019 ASRC Organising Committee
engagements with community groups
Fred Menk (National Committee Space and Cheryl Brown
and schools, and other pro-active events.
Radio Science), Program committee chair ACSER, University of NSW, secretariat
We do this to stimulate advancement Elias Aboutanios (University of NSW) Annalea Beattie
and development of space and related Duncan Blake (University of Adelaide) Mars Society Australia
applications and technologies and by Annalea Beattie (MSA/ NSSA) National Space Society of Australia
bringing together people from government, Melrose Brown (UNSW, Canberra)
Gordon Cable (University of Adelaide) Iver Cairns
industry and all walks of life for the free Co Chair ASRC 2018
Graziella Caprarelli (Hypatia Scientifica)
exchange of information. Brad Carter (University of Southern University of Sydney
As a non-profit organisation, the Queensland) Graziella Caprarelli
National Space Society of Australia draws Brett Carter (RMIT University) Hypatia Scientifica
The National Space Society of Australia its strength from an enthusiastic Jonathan Clarke (Mars Society of Australia) Jonathan Clarke
is the coming together of like-minded membership who contributes their time Alina Donea (Monash University) Mars Society Australia
space advocates who share a vision for Kerrie Dougherty (University of NSW)
and effort to assist the Society in pursuit Yanming Feng (Queensland University of Jonathan Horner
the future in which there is an ambitious of its goals. University of Southern Queensland
Technology)
and vigorous space program leading to
Duane Hamacher (University of Melbourne) Fred Menk
eventual space settlement. For more information, Trevor Harris (Defence Science and Chair, Program Committee
To this end the National Space Society and to become a member: Technology Group, Department of Defence) National Committee for Space
(worldwide) promotes interest in space Jason Held (Saber Astro) and Radio Science
WWW.NSSA.COM.AU Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer (University of NSW)
exploration, research, development and Wayne Short
Jonathan Horner (University of Southern Co Chair ASRC 2018
Ad Astra!
Queensland) President, NSSA
Wayne Short, NSSA President 2019 Chris Rizos (University of NSW)
6 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 7
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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
DAY 01 DAY 03
JOINT 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
8.00 Registration Open 8.00 Registration
8.45 Premier’s Welcome 8.30 Gender Equity and Diversity Plenaries
8.50 National and International Space Trends 10.00 MORNING TEA
10.15 MORNING TEA 10.30 Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Stream 4
11.00 Space Science, Industry and Applications Panel Space Missions 2 Space Situational Space Policy, GNSS Space & Atmospheric
Awareness Physics 2,
12.30 LUNCH Space Engineering 4
13.30 Australian Space Research Conference Plenaries 12.30 LUNCH
14.50 AFTERNOON TEA Women in Space Networking Event
15.30 SmartSat CRC – Building Australia’s Space Industry 13.30 Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Stream 4
16.50 Conclusion Space Meteorites, Space Medicine Space & Atmospheric
Engineering 5 Asteroids & Space & Human Factors Physics 3
17.00 NETWORKING EVENT Resources
19.00 MSA David Cooper Memorial Lecture - The University of Adelaide 15.00 AFTERNOON TEA & POSTER SESSION 2
16.30 Town Hall Discussion: Development of Australia’s next decadal plan for space science
DAY 02
19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
8.00 Registration
8.30 Gender Equity and Diversity Plenaries
10.00 MORNING TEA
10.30 Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Stream 4
Space Space Business Education Remote Sensing and
Engineering 1 & Industry and Training Earth Observations
12.30 LUNCH
13.30 Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Stream 4
Space Entrepreneur Planets & Space Missions 1
Work with us to
Engineering 2 Pitch Sessions Exoplanets solve the greatest
15.00 AFTERNOON TEA & POSTER SESSION 1 challenges through
innovative science
16.30 Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Stream 4
and technology. To exploring inhospitable
Space Space Law Mars Space Missions 1
terrain with robotics.
Engineering 3
19.00 Conference Dinner From helping the world
watch the first steps on
the Moon.
Australia’s National
csiro.au/space Science Agency
10 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
MSA DAVID COOPER
MEMORIAL LECTURE
MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2019
6.45pm for a 7.00pm start
Venue: University of Adelaide
Room S112, School of Mechanical Engineering
North Terrace Adelaide
Speaker:
Dr Gordon Cable, Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine
THE GRAVITY OF Dr Gordon Cable is a specialist in
aerospace medicine and a Senior Aviation
MARS EXPLORATION Medical Officer for the Australian Defence
Force. He has been a consultant to the
Plans for the exploration of deep space Royal Australian Air Force since 1996.
over the coming decades will see humans He is an honorary member of the
travel deeper into space and for longer Australasian Society of Aerospace
periods than at any time in human history. Medicine, as well as Chair of the Space
The Gateway will provide a permanent Life Sciences Committee, and a past
presence in cis-lunar orbit, exploration president. He also holds Fellowships with
of the lunar surface is planned by 2024 the Australasian College of Aerospace
through Project Artemis, and missions to Medicine, the Aerospace Medical
the Mars system are anticipated to follow. Association, the Royal Aeronautical Society
SPACE TO
This new era of space and planetary and the International Academy of Aviation
exploration will expose humans to hazards and Space Medicine.
not experienced since the Apollo program Additionally, Dr Cable is a Clinical
DREAM.
of the 1960s and 70s, but magnified Associate Professor in the School of
by greater distance and much longer Medicine at the University of Adelaide,
exposures. and a Senior Lecturer in Space Medicine
Human missions to Mars will expose the at the University of Tasmania.
crews to hazards such as isolation and His professional interests include altitude
confinement, distance from Earth, hostile physiology of hypoxia and hypobaric
and closed environments, radiation, and of decompression illness, hypoxia awareness
course altered gravity fields. training of military and civilian aircrew,
While countermeasures can be space medicine, and postgraduate
identified for many of these challenges, education in aerospace medicines.
some of the problems of microgravity In 2015 he was appointed a Member
remain unsolved. This presentation will of the Order of Australia for contributions Sometimes making your biggest dreams come true
describe the impacts of microgravity on to aerospace medicine.
human physiology during long duration
means leaving the familiar. Boeing is proud to
exploration class missions to Mars, and support those who aren’t afraid to go wherever
explore possible solutions.
their dreams take them.
12 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 13
PROGRAM DAY 01 PROGRAM DAY 01
JOINT 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE JOINT 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE
RESEARCH CONFERENCE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Facilitated by Nicola Sasanelli, Director, South Australian Space Industry Centre Facilitated by Nicola Sasanelli, Director, South Australian Space Industry Centre
TIME SESSION ROOM TIME SESSION ROOM
8.00 REGISTRATION OPEN Foyer L 13.30 AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE PLENARIES Hall L
Tea and coffee on arrival Nearly every aspect of our daily lives is touched and made better by
space innovation. The following presentations feature examples where
this is happening.
8.45 Welcome from the Premier of South Australia – Hall L
The Hon Steven Marshall MP Facilitator:
Prof Fred Menk, Chair National Committee for Space & Radio Science
13.30 Dr Jason Held, Chief Executive Officer, Saber Astronautics
8.50 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SPACE TRENDS Hall L
This session will feature a number of presentations covering policy and 13.50 Prof Phil Bland, Planetary Scientist, School of Earth and Planetary Science,
trends within the national and international space domain. The session Australian Laureate Fellow, Curtin University
will also feature the Forum’s keynote presentation.
14.10 Dr Suelynn Choy, Geospatial Science, RMIT University
8.50 Hon Karen Andrews MP, Minister for Industry, Science and Technology
14.30 Prof John Le Marshall, Senior Principal Research Scientist,
9.00 Dr Megan Clark AC, Head, Australian Space Agency Bureau of Meteorology
9.10 Richard Price, Chief Executive, South Australian Space Industry Centre
Exhibition
9.15 Luca Del Monte, Head of Industrial Policy and SME Division, European 14.50 AFTERNOON TEA - SPONSORED BY TITOMIC
Halls M&N
Space Agency – Paris (Keynote Speaker)
9.45 Dr Sarah Pearce, Deputy Director, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science
15.30 SMARTSAT CRC - BUILDING AUSTRALIA’S SPACE INDUSTRY Hall L
9.55 Dr James Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Geoscience Australia SmartSat CRC future technology and pathway. Challenges and
opportunities for intelligent systems in space technology
10.05 Dr Graeme Kernich, Chief Executive Officer, Frontier SI
Facilitator:
Peter Nikoloff, Director/Senior Weapons Engineer, Nova Systems
Exhibition Panellists:
10.15 MORNING TEA - SPONSORED BY NOVA SYSTEMS
Halls M&N Prof Anna Moore, Director, InSpace
Andrew Seedhouse, Chief Intelligence, Surveillance & Space Division,
11.00 SPACE SCIENCE, INDUSTRY, AND APPLICATIONS Hall L Defence, Science and Technology
Aude Vignelles, Executive Director, Program and Capability, Australian
This panel session will explore how to translate space science Space Agency
to applications Brad Yelland, Chief Technology Officer, BAE Systems Australia
Facilitator: Dr Koukou Suu, Chief Executive Officer, ULVAC Inc.
Anna-Maria Arabia, Chief Executive, Australian Academy of Science Shaun Wilson, Founder & Head of Business Development, Shoal Group
Panellists: Dr Doug Griffin, Chief Engineer, UNSW Canberra Space
Dr Murray Parkinson, National Manager, Space Weather Service, Bureau Martin Duursma, Partner, Main Sequence Ventures –
of Meteorology The CSIRO Innovation Fund
Prof Andrew Dempster, ACSER / CUAVA, Director, Australian Centre for
Space Engineering Research, UNSW
16.50 CONCLUSION Hall L
Prof Caroline McMillen, Chief Scientist for South Australia
Prof Graham Durant, Director, Questacon
Darin Lovett, Manager, Systems Analysis Laboratory, Phantom Works Exhibition
International, Boeing Australia 17.00 NETWORKING EVENT - SPONSORED BY CSIRO
Halls M&N
Prof Fred Menk, Chair National Committee for Space & Radio Science
University of
Exhibition 19.00 MSA DAVID COOPER MEMORIAL LECTURE
12.30 LUNCH - SPONSORED BY ULVAC, INC. Adelaide
Halls M&N
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PROGRAM DAY 02 PROGRAM DAY 02
19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
TIME SESSION ROOM TIME SESSION ROOM
City Rooms City Rooms
8.00 REGISTRATION 12.30 LUNCH - SPONSORED BY BOEING
Foyer Foyer
City Rooms
8.30 GENDER EQUITY AND DIVERSITY SESSION STREAM 1 - SPACE ENGINEERING 2 City Room 1
1&2
13.30 Monique Hollick, Defence, Science and Technology
8.30 PLENARY
Deployable optics payload for the Buccaneer Main Mission
Anna-Maria Arabia, Australian Academy of Science
13.45 Paul Alvino, Defence, Science and Technology
Ten years, six opportunities: why gender equality in STEM can’t be achieved
without you Australian radiation testing of liquid lenses for the Buccaneer Main Mission
SELFIE payload
9.00 Rose O’Dea, University of New South Wales (Invited) 14.00 Fergus Downey, Curtin University
Why are fewer women than men employed in fields associated with brilliance? The Binar CubeSat Program: Developing a reliable and efficient CubeSat
9.20 Eriita Jones, University of South Australia electronics power system
Gender balance and inclusion is still a problem: An overview of delegates at the 14.15 Nathaniel Brough, Curtin University
Australian Space Research Conference over the past 4 years. The Binar CubeSat Program: attitude control for small satellites
9.40 Panel Discussion 14.30 Ben Jarvis, University of Sydney
Anna-Maria Arabia, Rose O’Dea, Eriita Jones, Alice Gorman, Sumen Rai Development of low-cost testing methodologies for star trackers
14.45 Shanae King, Australian National University
City Rooms A small form-factor detector controller for the Emu space telescope mission
10.00 MORNING TEA - SPONSORED BY INSPACE
Foyer and beyond
City Rooms
15.00 POSTER SESSION 1 AND AFTERNOON TEA
STREAM 1 - SPACE ENGINEERING 1 City Room 1 Foyer
10.30 Jan-Erik Ronningen, Gilmour Space Technologies STREAM 1 - SPACE ENGINEERING 3 City Room 1
Hybrid rockets - past, present, future
10.45 Mitchell Galletly, University of Sydney 16.30 Muhammad Furqan, Queensland University of Technology
Project Silvereye: The design architecture of a reusable 10,000 ft high power rocket Efficient utilization of radio frequency electromagnetic spectrum for satellites
in lower Earth orbits
11.00 Aiden O’Brien, Saber Astronautics
16.45 Richard Tracey, Keysight Technologies
Automated conceptual design of cubesats
Emulating radio links for wideband SATCOM systems
11.15 Stuart Buchan, Curtin University 17.00 Jack Rintoul, Defence, Science and Technology
The Binar CubeSat Program: design and development of a CubeSat digital twin Augmenting CubeSat communication using Low Earth Orbit (LEO) communication
11.30 R K Manchanda networks
Role of tethered balloons and aerostats in communication, surveillance and disaster 17.15 Edwin Peters, University of New South Wales Canberra
management Real-time demodulation of multiple modulation schemes from satellites using
a GPU based matched filtering approach
11.45 Kawsihen Elankumaran, University of New South Wales
17.30 Francis Bennet, Australian National University
Autonomous navigation of distributed spacecraft for proximity operations in small
celestial bodies Towards an optical communications ground station network for next generation
satellite communications
12.00 Job Nijhuis, University of Adelaide 17.45 Gavin Conibeer, University of New South Wales
Microfluidic chip-based synthesis and spray of quantum nanodots as spectral decoy Laser power beaming for transmission of power in space
to protect satellites
12.15 Graham Dorrington, RMIT University 19.00 CONFERENCE DINNER - SPONSORED BY SPACE INDUSTRY Cliché
Novel concept for a partly reusable Lunar lander ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA Exhibition
16 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 17
PROGRAM DAY 02 PROGRAM DAY 02
19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
TIME SESSION ROOM TIME SESSION ROOM
STREAM 2 - SPACE BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY City Room 2 STREAM 2 - SPACE LAW City Room 2
10.30 Daniel Floreani, CyberOps 16.30 Alex Seneta, Australian Space Agency
The Australian space cybersecurity environment The new rules: Space (Launch and Returns) Act 2018
10.45 Richard Matthews, University of Adelaide 16.45 Rodrigo Praino, Flinders University
How security ready is the Australian Space Industry? The challenges of digital security Measuring space power: A comparative assessment of worldwide space actors
in space 17.00 Mark Meegan
11.00 Taofiq Huq, SpiralBlue Earth Observation data - climate change monitoring
Spiral Blue: Space Edge Computing 17.15 Rebecca Leshinsky, RMIT University
11.15 Christopher Tylor, NEO Resources Atlas Pty Ltd Valuing real estate interests in space – a frontier exercise
The NEO Resource Atlas - A commercial solution to a legal problem 17.30 John Lee, University of Newcastle
11.30 Sophia Cassanova, University of New South Wales Care of the outer space environment: An emerging aspect of human involvement
Developing exploration strategies and development guidelines for Lunar and Martian with outer space.
volatile resource extraction and utilisation 17.45 Rowena Christiansen, University of Melbourne
11.45 Nicholas Bennett, University of New South Wales Space tourism - is it a disaster waiting to happen?
On the virtue of supplying just oxygen from a lunar polar water mine
12.00 Scott Wallis, Equatorial Launch Australia CONFERENCE DINNER - SPONSORED BY SPACE INDUSTRY Cliché
19.00
NASA launches from the Arnhem Space Centre in 2020 ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA Exhibition
12.15 Vickal Kumar, Bureau of Meteorology
Impacts of space weather on aviation
STREAM 3 - EDUCATION AND TRAINING City Room 3
City Rooms
12.30 LUNCH - SPONSORED BY BOEING
Foyer 10.30 Carol Oliver, University of New South Wales
Can high school students undertake publishable space science research?
10.45 Vira Wallis, Mawson Lakes School
STREAM 2 - ENTREPRENEUR PITCH SESSIONS City Room 2 M.A.R.S.U.P.I.A.L.S project
11.00 Ady James, University of South Australia
13.30 Max Arshavsky, Zenno Astronautics Limited The Southern hemisphere Space Studies Program: international, intercultural
Novel satellite propulsion technology and interdisciplinary.
13.45 Bohan Deng, Sperospace Pty Ltd 11.15 Fabian Zander, University of Southern Queensland
Sperospace STEM education using hybrid rocket motors
14.00 Benjamin Koschnick, Spectral Aerospace 11.30 Yiwei Mao, University of Sydney
Spectral Aerospace: changing the way we see our world TweetS@
14.15 Brian Lim, Wise Networking 11.45 Nataliia Sergiienko, University of Adelaide
On demand telecommunication infrastructure for planetary exploration CubeSat as a tool for training engineers of the future
and colonisation 12.00 Panwar Rakesh, Bureau of Meteorology
14.30 Sai Krishna Vallapureddy, Ground Zero Space Australian Bureau of Meteorology space weather training
The Australian space cybersecurity environment 12.15 David Holdsworth, Defence, Science and Technology
14.45 Patrick Wang, Space Ops Australia JORN Open Innovation Network: Description and Defence Science & Technology
Space Ops business pitch plan group perspective
City Rooms City Rooms
15.00 POSTER SESSION 1 AND AFTERNOON TEA 12.30 LUNCH - SPONSORED BY BOEING
Foyer Foyer
18 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 19PROGRAM DAY 02 PROGRAM DAY 02
19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
TIME SESSION ROOM TIME SESSION ROOM
STREAM 3 - PLANETS & EXOPLANETS City Room 3 STREAM 4 - REMOTE SENSING AND EARTH OBSERVATIONS City Room 4
13.30 Shin-Chan Han, University of Newcastle 10.30 Amy Parker, CSIRO
High-resolution gravitational fields of the Moon from crustal density estimates Australia’s NovaSAR-1 national research facility
and topographic data 10.45 Trent McDougall, Mars Society Australia
13.45 Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland Flown in space: Can low cost electronics perform useful science
Minerva-Australis - searching for alien worlds in the near-space environment?
11.00 Mark Ramsey, Sitael Australia
14.00 Graziella Caprarelli, Hypatia Scientifica P/L
An Australian national satellite water monitoring system concept
Exploratory analysis of the NASA Exoplanet Archive
11.15 Stephen Gensemer, CSIRO
14.15 Graeme Melville, University of New South Wales CSIRO’s small-satellite optical instrumentation development
Characterising Hot Jupiter exoplanets
11.30 Victor Fok, Defence, Science and Technology
14.30 James O’Connor, University of Southern Queensland SAR constellation designs for barrier surveillance applications
Orbital constraints on terrestrial exoplanet climates 11.45 Joon Wayn Cheong, University of New South Wales
14.45 Jake Clark, University of Southern Queensland Target detection applications using GNSS-reflectometry
Can stellar abundances help explain the architecture of planetary systems 12.00 Elizaveta Klantsataya, University of Adelaide
discovered by TESS? Upconversion fluorescence spectroscopy for active remote detection
of acetone and other small size organic compounds in space
City Rooms 12.15 Andrew Robson, University of New England
15.00 POSTER SESSION 1 AND AFTERNOON TEA
Foyer Satellite imagery, if not properly trained then it can ‘eat your sheep’
City Rooms
12.30 LUNCH - SPONSORED BY BOEING
STREAM 3 - MARS City Room 3 Foyer
16.30 Nick Carter, CSIRO
CubeSat to Mars - A feasibility study STREAM 4 - SPACE MISSIONS 1 City Room 4
16.45 Jon Clarke, Mars Society Australia
13.30 Xueliang Bai, University of Sydney
Lonar Crater in India as an analogue for Mars analogue studies
The CUAVA-1 CubeSat
17.00 Eriita Jones, University of South Australia 13.45 Benjamin Hartig, Curtin University
A battle between machine learning, traditional clustering and citizen scientists The Binar CubeSat program: Past, present and beyond
in the detection and segmentation of polar spring-time fans on Mars
14.00 Michele Trenti, University of Melbourne
17.15 Lucy Forman, Curtin University The SkyHopper space telescope CubeSat
Lava flows on Mars 14.15 Duncan Wright, University of Southern Queensland
17.30 Anthony Lagain, Curtin University Twinkle and Australia
Automatic surface age dating of impact events on Mars 14.30 Joice Mathew, Australian National University
17.45 Ken Orr, Curtin University Emu - A time delay imaging near-infrared survey mission on the international
space station
Spectral characterization of Martian meteorites: Searching for the source craters
on Mars 14.45 Shin-Chan Han, University of Newcastle
An overview of NASA and DLR’s Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment
(GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On missions
CONFERENCE DINNER - SPONSORED BY SPACE INDUSTRY Cliché
19.00
ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA Exhibition
City Rooms
15.00 POSTER SESSION 1 AND AFTERNOON TEA
Foyer
20 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 21PROGRAM DAY 02 ASRC CONFERENCE DINNER
19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
SPONSORED BY
TIME SESSION ROOM SPACE INDUSTRY
ASSOCIATION
STREAM 4 - SPACE & ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS 1 City Room 4 OF AUSTRALIA
Join us for the official Conference Dinner
16.30 Patrick Shober, Curtin University
Skipping fireballs and what they tell us about the evolution of the solar system
for a delicious French banquet.
A great opportunity to network with your
16.45 Eleanor Sansom, Curtin University fellow ASRC delegates in a relaxed setting.
Hayabusa II re-entry observation campaign
Delegates must be pre-registered to
17.00 George Bowden, University of New South Wales attend and present their name badge
Numerical simulation of ionospheric disturbances resulting from rocket launches at the door.
17.15 Ronald Maj, RMIT University
Comparison of the predictive power of RMIT’s and existing atmospheric mass density TUESDAY 1 OCTOBER 2019
(AMD) models using satellite measurements 6.50pm arrival for a 7.00pm start
17.30 Andrew Spargo, University of Adelaide Location: Cliché Exhibition
Multistatic meteor radar observations of gravity wave-tide interactions 26 O’Connell Street, North Adelaide
in the lower E-region Dress code: Smart casual
17.45 Baden Gilbert, University of Adelaide
Simultaneous ionospheric sounder and airglow observations of sporadic-E layers
CONFERENCE DINNER - SPONSORED BY SPACE INDUSTRY Cliché
19.00
ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA Exhibition
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the industry, harnessing the skills facilitate commercial, industrial across Australia, engaging with
and expertise of our membership and research opportunities our members to devise and
to address issues of common for our members nationally communicate policies that
concern to corporations, and internationally. support the development of the
businesses and individuals. Australian space industry.
The SIAA plays a leading role in advising government on behalf of the space industry.
With the establishment of the Australian Space Agency there has never been a more
crucial need to have a strong national voice for the space industry.
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and advice relevant to your business development needs and concerns.
22 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE JOIN NOW at www.spaceindustry.com.au/membership
30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 23PROGRAM DAY 03
19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
TIME SESSION ROOM
City Rooms
8.00 REGISTRATION
Foyer
8.30 PLENARY SESSION City Rooms
Isabelle Kingsley, University of New South Wales 1&2
Deep impact: how to achieve effective and meaningful space science
education and outreach
9.00 Alina Donea, Monash University
Advances and results in enhancing and developing helioseismic methods for the
space weather predictions
9.30 Anatoly Rozenfeld, University of Wollongong
Innovative radiation sensors for prediction of radiation hazard to astronauts and
electronics during space missions
City Rooms
10.00 MORNING TEA - SPONSORED BY INSPACE
Foyer
STREAM 1 - SPACE MISSIONS 2 City Room 1
10.30 Stephen Gensemer, CSIRO
CSIROSat-1 CubeSat mission update
10.45 Ali Buchberger, University of Southern Queensland
Firing up for the space race: Australia’s national rocket static test facility
11.00 Andrew Dempster, University of New South Wales
The Wilde Project: A Moon Mission for Australia
11.15 Ed Kruzins, CSIRO
Deep space missions from Australia, the capability of the Canberra Deep
Space Communication Complex at Tidbinbilla and the future of new
tracking technologies
11.30 Guifré Molera Calvés, University of Tasmania
Spacecraft tracking capabilities by the UTAS radio telescope network
11.45 Ben Adams, Inovor Technologies
Apogee satellite bus missions
12.00 Rasit Abay, University of New South Wales Canberra
Space mission architecture with AI on the edge
12.15 Elias Aboutanios, University of New South Wales
A high altitude balloon borne synthetic aperture radar
City Rooms
12.30 LUNCH - SPONSORED BY BOEING
Foyer
WOMEN IN SPACE NETWORKING EVENT City Room 4
24 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 25PROGRAM DAY 03 PROGRAM DAY 03
19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
TIME SESSION ROOM TIME SESSION ROOM
City Rooms
12.30 LUNCH - SPONSORED BY BOEING
STREAM 1 - SPACE ENGINEERING 5 City Room 1 Foyer
WOMEN IN SPACE NETWORKING EVENT City Room 4
13.30 Volker Hessel, University of Adelaide
Asteroid@ChemEng: Orders of magnitude water savings by intensified metal
extraction from mimicked asteroid ores? STREAM 2 - METEORITES, ASTEROIDS & SPACE RESOURCES City Room 2
13.45 Heiki Ebendorff-Heidepriem, University of Adelaide
Next-generation extreme-low loss optical fibres through automated manufacture 13.30 Eleanor Sansom, Curtin University
in space Near-Earth Objects characterisation with small space assets
14.00 Doug Klotz, Flawless Photonics 13.45 Seamus Anderson, Curtin University
The business case for next generation optical fiber manufactured in space Drones and deep learning for meteorite recovery
14.15 Daniel Liang, CSIRO 14.00 Ruida Xie, University of New South Walers
Shape memory alloy foils produced by near-net-shape casting Mission opportunities’ search for long stay-time exploration on near Earth asteroids
14.30 Yang Yang, RMIT University 14.15 Jacob Parnell, Macquarie University
PHiFA – A high-fidelity orbit-attitude propagator A smoothed particle hydrodynamics approach to asteroid modelling
14.45 Benjamin Dix-Matthews, University of Western Australia 14.30 Craig Lindley, CSIRO
Coherent optical Doppler orbitography Resource modelling for asteroid mining
14.45 Volker Hessel, University of Adelaide
City Rooms In-Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) in space: water, phosphate, and metals
15.00 POSTER SESSION 2 AND AFTERNOON TEA
Foyer
City Rooms
TOWN HALL DISCUSSION: DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIA’S City Rooms 15.00 POSTER SESSION 2 AND AFTERNOON TEA
16.30 Foyer
NEXT DECADAL PLAN FOR SPACE SCIENCE 1&2
TOWN HALL DISCUSSION: DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIA’S City Rooms
16.30
NEXT DECADAL PLAN FOR SPACE SCIENCE 1&2
STREAM 2 - SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS City Room 2
10.30 Steve Gower, SERC Limited STREAM 3 - SPACE POLICY, GNSS City Room 3
Space Environment Research Centre (SERC) research
10.30 Liz Pearce, Australian Space Agency
10.45 Albert Sztolc, University of Adelaide
Civil Space Technical Roadmap - what’s next for Australia
Optical space fence development
10.45 Kimberley Clayfield, CSIRO
11.00 Doris Grosse, Australian National University
CSIRO Space Technology Future Science Platform
Adaptive optics for space situational awareness
11.00 Christopher Marshall, Frontier SI
11.15 Brendan Hennessy, Defence, Science and Technology
The Australia and New Zealand SBAS Test-bed: Demonstrating the next-generation
Surveillance of space with passive radar using the Murchison Widefield Array of positioning technology
11.30 David Holdsworth, Defence, Science and Technology 11.15 Yanming Feng, Queensland University of Technology
Buckland Park VHF radar observations of low-earth orbit objects during SpaceFest 2019: Connected GNSS things for industry IoT solutions: case studies
operating configuration and signal processing
11.30 Stefan Norman, University of Adelaide
11.45 Samantha Le May, RMIT University
GNSS trust & reliability
A quantitative analysis of space object registration using a graph database.
11.45 Joon Wayn Cheong, University of New South Wales
12.00 Richard Samuel, Australian National University
Verification of a GPS reflectometry sensor using software defined radios
A new method of refining near-earth object characteristics and behaviours using
differential correction 12.00 Kerrie Dougherty, University of New South Wales
HARP: Australia’s first sounding rocket program
12.15 Emma Kerr, RMIT University
Limitations on the use of drag augmentation for post-mission disposal 12.15 Owen Mace
The first satellite built in Australia
26 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 27PROGRAM DAY 03 PROGRAM DAY 03
19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
TIME SESSION ROOM TIME SESSION ROOM
City Rooms 11.30 Richard Marshall, Bureau of Meteorology
12.30 LUNCH - SPONSORED BY BOEING
Foyer Modelling, monitoring, and mitigation of space weather for Australia’s power grids
WOMEN IN SPACE NETWORKING EVENT City Room 4
11.45 Alexander Ryan, University of Sydney
Experimental analysis of a Helicon plasma rocket developed using rapid Monte Carlo
based inverse design
STREAM 3 - SPACE MEDICINE & HUMAN FACTORS City Room 3
12.00 Robin Georg, University of Adelaide
Investigations of transient discharge behaviour in an inductive plasma generator
13.30 Jason Armstrong, Boeing for electric propulsion
Anti-microbial polymer development for spacecraft cabin disease & system
contamination 12.15 Kyll Schomberg, Shoal Group
Estimating non-axial thrust loss in bell rocket nozzles
13.45 Bal Dhital
A conceptual review of the relationship between the glymphatic system, sleep,
cognition, and neurodegenerative disease in the microgravity environment City Rooms
12.30 LUNCH - SPONSORED BY BOEING
14.00 Julie Hides, Griffith University Foyer
Parallels between changes in trunk muscles in response to microgravity, WOMEN IN SPACE NETWORKING EVENT City Room 4
prolonged bed rest and low back pain on Earth
14.15 Vienna Tran, University of Adelaide
The efficacy and stability of semi-finished and finished medicines made in space STREAM 4 - SPACE & ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS 3 City Room 4
14.30 Shane Usher, University of Melbourne
Australians in space analogues: Expedition Boomerang at MDRS and 13.30 Daniel Field, University of Adelaide
SIRIUS-20 at IMBP A new empirical climatological model of ionospheric foF2 and hmF2
14.45 Peter Schumacher, University of Adelaide
13.45 Zahra Bouya, Bureau of Meteorology
Applied anthropometry and human centered design for complex confined
environments A prediction model of global ionospheric maps
14.00 Chris Crouch, Defence, Science and Technology
City Rooms Using neural networks to improve ionospheric models with radar backscatter
15.00 POSTER SESSION 2 AND AFTERNOON TEA
Foyer sounder observations
TOWN HALL DISCUSSION: DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIA’S 14.15 Andrew Heitmann, Defence, Science and Technology
City Rooms
16.30 Characterising ionospheric gradients from oblique angle-of-arrival ionosondes
NEXT DECADAL PLAN FOR SPACE SCIENCE 1&2
14.30 Anne Unewisse, Defence, Science and Technology
Variation in the maximum range of HF spread Doppler clutter
STREAM 4 - SPACE & ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS 2, SPACE ENGINEERING 4 City Room 4 14.45 Lenard Pederick, Defence, Science and Technology
TAPDANCE: A polarimetric vector-sensing ionosonde
10.30 Owen Giersch, Australian Space Academy
The Australian Space Academy solar radio spectrograph City Rooms
15.00 POSTER SESSION 2 AND AFTERNOON TEA
10.45 Iver Cairns, University of Sydney Foyer
Hit or miss, arrival time, and Bz orientation predictions of BATS-R-US CME-driven
TOWN HALL DISCUSSION: DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIA’S City Rooms
shock simulations at 1 AU 16.30
NEXT DECADAL PLAN FOR SPACE SCIENCE 1&2
11.00 Bolaji Olawale, University of Tasmania
Response of global ionospheric plasma fountain circulations to St. Patrick’s storm
of 2015
11.15 Sean Ables, University of Newcastle
Robust geolocation of EMIC wave sources in the high latitude ionosphere
28 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 29POSTER SESSIONS POSTER SESSIONS
POSTER SESSION 1 – DAY 02 POSTER SESSION 1 – DAY 02
SPACE BUSINESS, EDUCATION & TRAINING, MARS, SPACE ENGINEERING SPACE BUSINESS, EDUCATION & TRAINING, MARS, SPACE ENGINEERING (CONTINUED)
15.00 Richard Matthews, University of Adelaide 15.00 Xiaojing Huang, University of Technology Sydney
The real Space Cowboys: An assessment of Space Exploration Technologies Corp Novel architecture and key technologies for achieving high capacity and low cost
sustainability using the Benn et al and Perrott Models of corporate sustainability space and terrestrial integrated networks
Jessica Ralph, University of South Australia Aditya Kedlaya, AstrogateLabs
HRM in Outer Space Precision pointing system for a low-cost optical terminal for high-speed downlink from
smallsats in LEO
Andoh Afful, RMIT University
Barriers inhibiting successful implementation of a space science program: Dylan Lawrence, Flinders University
perceptions of academics and students Dynamic modelling of systems with pitch control aerofoils
Ady James, University of South Australia Patrick Neumann, Neumann Space
Developing skills in the space industry through the SmartSat CRC Initial pulsed cathodic arc thruster impulse measurements using a calibrated torsional
thrust stand
James O’Connor, University of Southern Queensland
Effective science communication using Instagram - @educatingspace Eric Russo, Flinders University
A detailed investigation and solution strategy of thermal impacts on pressure regulator
Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland valve in liquid space engine hydro-control system
Which ExoEarths should we search for life? The impact of planetary architecture
on the Milankovitch cycles. James Veasey, Flinders University
Dynamic analysis and component modelling of a thrust system in a liquid space
Steven Hobbs, University of New South Wales Canberra engine
Using point pattern and thermal inertia analyses to test self-organisation
in Martian mid-latitude Gullies Dylan Vinall, Flinders University
Eriita Jones, University of South Australia The application of surface dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators, for improved
active flow control on highly pitched aerofoil blades.
Evidence of life on Mars? – A critical review of the recent publication by the
same name Ivan Voropaev, Wave Power Engineering
Savannah McGuirk, University of Sydney New propulsion system
Opportunities for enhancing Australia’s estimates of soil carbon in the age of
hyperspectral imaging spectroscopy: from the farmers paddock to cubeSats
and UAV’s
Christopher Tylor, FUEGO International Pty Ltd
FUEGO - Fire Urgency Estimator on Geostationary Orbit
Eriita Jones, University of South Australia
Is higher spatial resolution always better? A quantitative analysis of the impact
of pan-sharpening worldview-2 imagery on a neural networks detection and
segmentation of vineyards
Gavin Conibeer, University of New South Wales
Integrated patch antennas and solar cells for Cubesats – Optimising solar cell
efficiency and antennae gain
30 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 31POSTER SESSIONS POSTER SESSIONS
POSTER SESSION 2 – DAY 03 POSTER SESSION 2 – DAY 03
SPACE MISSIONS, SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, SPACE & ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS SPACE MISSIONS, SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, SPACE & ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS (CONTINUED)
15.00 Rowena Christiansen 15.00 Darrell Elton, La Trobe University
Rethinking the paradigm - how the space environment challenges traditional Buckland Park HF radar: Enhanced capabilities and results
ways of delivering clinical medicine
Owen Giersch, Australian Space Academy
Petar Belic, University of New South Wales The Australian Space Academy sunspot number
Monopedal jumping robots in the context of the Lunar environment
Vasily Lobzin, Bureau of Meteorology
William Crowe, HEO Robotics Predictions of relativistic electron fluence at geo-synchronous orbit
Asteroid Century whitepaper: a flagship mission for Australia
Ronald Maj, RMIT University
Frederick Menk, University of Newcastle Dust detection via voltage power spectroscopy on a CubeSat in Earth’s ionosphere
An Australian space weather and climate satellite constellation
Dave Neudegg, Defence, Science and Technology
Melrose Brown, University of New South Wales Canberra Coronal mass ejection and resultant geomagnetic-ionospheric response
Change detection SSA experiments for the M2 formation flying CubeSat mission
Kehe Wang, Bureau of Meteorology
Brett Carter, RMIT University Analysis of Australian historical foF2 data
Does the movement of RMIT’s rooftop Robotic Optical Observatory (ROO)
impact its space situational awareness data? John Hildebrandt, Amazon Web Services
Introduction to AWS (Amazon Web Services) Ground Station
Daniel Field, University of Adelaide
Buckland Park VHF radar observations of low-Earth orbit objects during
SpaceFest 2019: observations and results
John Kennewell, Australian Space Academy
Unresolved optical observations of material degradation in Geosats
Emma Kerr, RMIT University
General perturbations method for orbit propagation
Emma Kerr, RMIT University
Improving the accuracy of atmospheric density modelling and the effect on orbit
propagation
Bin Li, Queensland University of Technology
A machine learning-based approach for improved predictions of LEO objects with
two-line element data sets
Kathryn McDonnell, University of Adelaide
Luminescence dating potential of the mineral constituents of meteorites
Brett Carter, RMIT University
On the evaluation of deterministic ionospheric scintillation forecasts
Tam Dao, International University (HCMIU)
On the variations of the total electron content observed over Ho Chi Minh City in 2018
Alina Donea, Monash University
CNN machine learning techniques for identification of magnetic field polarities
on the solar surface
32 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 33SPEAKER ANNA-MARIA
ARABIA
PROF PHIL BLAND
PLANETARY SCIENTIST
BIOGRAPHIES CHIEF EXECUTIVE | AUSTRALIAN
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
| CURTIN UNIVERSITY
Anna-Maria Arabia has over 20 years’ Phil Bland is Professor of Space & Planetary
experience in the science sector and is Science at Curtin University. He came to
an experienced Chief Executive currently Australia on an ARC Laureate Fellowship
leading the Australian Academy of Science, in 2012.
an independent not for profit organisation Previously he was Director of the Imperial
that provides authoritative and influential College London space and planetary
scientific advice, represents Australia on key research centre. His research is focused on
international scientific bodies, builds public the origin and evolution of the solar system;
awareness and understanding of science, how our planet formed; how it acquired the
and champions and supports excellence ingredients for life. He has been on multiple
in Australian science. planetary mission science teams. In 2006,
Asteroid ‘1981 EW21’ was renamed ‘(6580)
In this role Anna-Maria has led
Philbland’ in recognition of his contributions
significant reform in global science
to space and planetary science.
engagement, in science policy matters;
He is Director of the Desert Fireball
and in addressing gender equity in science.
Network (DFN) project (now expanding into
Starting her career as a neuroscientist, a global facility) and founded the multi-
Anna-Maria undertook medical research award winning Fireballs in the Sky outreach
in Australia and abroad, before applying and citizen science program. In 2015 Bland
her skills to policy development both established a formal partnership between
in the Australian public service and in NASA and Australia in planetary, space
politics where she has provided policy and exploration science that provides
advice across many social and economic Australian planetary scientists with ground-
portfolios. floor access in NASA mission concept
She has held several senior executive development.
positions in the science sector as CEO of In 2018 he founded the Curtin Space
Science and Technology Australia and Science and Technology Centre. With >35
Deputy Director at Questacon. In these students and staff, it is the largest planetary
roles, Anna-Maria has worked extensively research group in the southern hemisphere.
with parliamentarians, the business and His team have been partnering with
community sectors, and the media. Lockheed Martin since 2016, translating
DFN technology into applications in space
She is a strategic and dispassionate
situational awareness, and are now
advocate for science, social justice,
focussing on spacecraft engineering.
diversity and inclusion.
34 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 35DR SUELYNN CHOY DR MEGAN LUCA DEL MONTE PROF ANDREW
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
| GEOSPATIAL SCIENCE, RMIT UNIVERSITY
CLARK AC HEAD OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND
SME DIVISION AT ESA | EUROPEAN
DEMPSTER
HEAD | AUSTRALIAN SPACE AGENCY SPACE AGENCY DIRECTOR, AUSTRALIAN CENTRE
FOR SPACE ENGINEERING RESEARCH
(ACSER) | UNSW
Associate Professor Suelynn Choy Dr Megan Clark is currently Head of the Luca del Monte is a senior executive at Professor Andrew Dempster is Director of
completed her PhD in 2009 in the area Australian Space Agency and a director of the European Space Agency with strong the Australian Centre for Space Engineering
of Precise Point Positioning (PPP) using Rio Tinto, CSL Limited and CARE Australia. background in international cooperation, Research (ACSER) in the School of Electrical
Global Navigation Satellite Systems She is a member of the Australian advisory governmental relations and advanced Engineering and Telecommunications at
(GNSS) at RMIT University, Australia. board of the Bank of America Merrill technologies. He is the Head of the the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Since then, she works as a full-time Lynch. She recently chaired the Expert Industrial Policy and SME Division focusing He has a BE and MEngSc from UNSW and
academic staff in the School of Science Working Group into the Review of Australia’s inter alia on the development of a PhD from the University of Cambridge
(Geospatial) at RMIT University. Space Industry Capability. She was Chief frameworks and mechanisms to foster in efficient circuits for signal processing
Her current research interests are in Executive of the Commonwealth Scientific the European space economy and the arithmetic. He was system engineer and
the areas of multi-frequency multi- and Industrial Research Organisation growth of a new generation of European project manager for the first GPS receiver
constellation GNSS precise positioning (CSIRO) from 2009 to 2014. Prior to CSIRO, space Entrepreneurs. He is also in charge developed in Australia in the late 80s and
as well as utilisation of GNSS satellites in she was a Director at NM Rothschild and of cybersecurity projects to protect ESA has been involved in satellite navigation
disaster management and atmospheric Sons (Australia) and was Vice President space missions. ever since. His current research interests are
remote sensing. Technology and subsequently Vice Prior to joining ESA, he held several in satellite navigation receiver design and
Suelynn is a co-chair of the IAG President Health, Safety and Environment at technical and managerial responsibilities signal processing, areas where he has six
(International Association of Geodesy) BHP Billiton from 2003 to 2008. with the Italian Space Agency, the patents, and new location technologies.
Sub-Commission 4.4 on Multi-frequency She holds a BSc from the University of European Patent Office (NL) and with He is leading the development of space
Multi-constellation GNSS. She is also a co- Western Australia and a PhD from Queen’s Telespazio S.p.A. engineering research at ACSER.
chair of the FIG (International Federation University, Canada and is a Fellow of Luca holds a master degree in
of Surveyors) Working Group 5.4 on GNSS the Australian Academy of Technology Aerospace Engineering from University
under Commission 5: Positioning and and Engineering, a Fellow of the AusIMM La Sapienza in Rome, he is a graduate of
Measurement. and a Fellow of the Australian Institute the French National Defence Procurement
She is Director of the Satellite Positioning of Company Directors. In 2014, she was College, and of the HEC Montreal School
for Atmosphere, Climate and Environment appointed a Companion of the Order of Management of Innovation. He is author
(SPACE) Research Centre at RMIT. of Australia. of more than 30 peer-reviewed publications
and Member of the International
Astronautical Federation Committee on
Space Security.
36 8TH SPACE FORUM AND 19TH AUSTRALIAN SPACE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2019 37DR ALINA DONEA PROF GRAHAM
SENIOR LECTURER IN ASTROPHYSICS
AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
DURANT AM
| MONASH UNIVERSITY DIRECTOR | QUESTACON, NATIONAL
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE
Alina Donea is a Senior Lecturer in She was Co-Investigator in a major Graham Durant is the Director of He is currently Vice President of ASPAC,
Astrophysics and Applied Mathematics NASA research proposal ”Exploring the Questacon, Australia’s National Science the Asia-Pacific network of science centres.
at Monash University and PhD supervisor Physical Relationship Among Photospheric and Technology Centre. He is an He is one of the principal advocates for
in Solar Physics and coordinator of a Magnetic Field Changes, Sunspot Motions, experienced museum and science centre the global cooperative work of the science
Machine Learning Data Application Group and Sunquakes During Solar Eruptions” leader with a distinguished academic centre sector examining ways that science
in Solar Physics (BSc and Diploma Physics and a member of NASA panels to review background. Originally trained as a educational activities can contribute to
Bucharest University, PhD Mathematics research proposals for the Solar and geologist at the University of Wales, the fostering of understanding across
and Astronomy Romanian Academy Heliospheric Physics Supporting Research Graham spent 25 years at the University geographical, economic, religious and
and Max Planck, Graduate Certificate and Technology Programs. She is a also of Glasgow in a post at the University’s political boundaries.
High Education Monash). She teaches a Member of International Astronomical Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery prior
Mathematical Modelling and Advanced Union, AstronomicalSociety of Australia, to arriving in Australia in 2003.
Engineering Mathematics, as well as Australian Institute of Physics-Solar Graham is a member of the Australian
Astrophysics in the School of Mathematics. Terrestrial and Space Physics, Solar Physics Government’s Senior Executive Service
Her research field is focused on Advisory Board, Associate Editor at the and as Director of Questacon, he serves
helioseismology, acoustics of solar spots, Frontiers Astronomy and Space Sciences as a Divisional Head in the Australian
magnetic fields, solar quakes and solar and regularly engaged for joint research Government Department of Industry,
flares. Expert in Helioseismic Holography with institutes in Europe, the USA (Stanford Innovation and Science. From 2010 he
(a mathematical method which can tell University, High Altitude Observatory, North has been leading the Inspiring Australia
you how loud is the Sun), Alina can detect Western Research Associates in Colorado, national science communication strategy.
solar quakes in satellite images from state- New Jersey Institute of Technology). In addition to his role as Director of
of-art instruments. Her recent interest is in Questacon, Graham is an Honorary
modelling magnetic polarity distributions of Professor at the Centre for the Public
solar activity from its helioseismic signatures Awareness of Science at the Australian
and applying deep learning algorithms National University. He has a demonstrable
in the field of machine learning for solar commitment to informal learning in science
imaging and space weather forecasting. over many years and has presented many
She is the author of over 60 refereed lectures, talks and science shows. He is
publications. frequently invited to speak at national and
international science centre conferences.
He has served on several boards
including the Board of Directors of the
US-based Association of Science and
Technology Centres (ASTC) 2005-2011 and
the Australian Science Media Centre (2012- ).
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