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Australia’s first national space mission design facility officially launched at UNSW Canberra

Australia’s first national space mission design facility officially launched at UNSW Canberra

Featured image: Launch of Australia’s first cube satellite,
Buccaneer. Credit: Screenshot from UNSW Canberra’s
YouTube page. 

Australia’s first national space mission design facility was
officially opened yesterday
by ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr at University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Canberra.

UNSW Canberra Space director Russell Boyce says the new
Australian National Concurrent Design Facility (ANCDF) complements Australian
National University's spacecraft test facilities and means Canberra now has the
capability to develop space missions from start to finish.

"For the first time, Australia has a facility that will
enable spacecraft design engineers and scientists to rapidly design and
determine the technical and economic viability of proposed space
missions," Professor Boyce said.

"Just yesterday, we announced the successful
launch into orbit of our first cube satellite, ‘Buccaneer’
, which was
developed jointly with scientists from Defence Science Technology (DST). This
is the first of many UNSW Canberra missions. The Buccaneer cube satellite,
developed by Defence and UNSW, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in
California on a Delta-II rocket and communications have now been established.

"The ANCDF at UNSW Canberra will be a national asset
here in the ACT that will support the new Australian Space Agency’s activities
to grow and mature our domestic space industry.”

"This is a world-class facility that will play an
important role in the growth of jobs across the sector, including researchers,
designers, engineers, technicians, software specialists and beyond," he
said. 

Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, said: “Buccaneer is
designed to improve understanding of the outer atmosphere, in particular the
Ionosphere, which plays a key role in Australia’s world-leading
Over-the-Horizon radar capability.”

The ANCDF is jointly funded by UNSW Canberra and the ACT
Government, and supported through a partnership
with the French Space Agency CNES
 (Centre National d’Etudes
Spatiales), who are providing software and training.

UNSW Canberra Space is the university’s flagship space
program and the leading space capability in Australia. The team includes more
than 40 space engineers, scientists and PhD students who, combined have decades
of experience working on space programs for NASA and the European Space Agency
(ESA).

UNSW Canberra also has a AU$10million
contract with the Royal Australian Air Force
 (RAAF) to build three
spacecraft and carry out two space missions over the next two years. 

See below for the video of the official opening of ANCDF by UNSW:

 

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