ANU Institute for Space | InSpace

Congratulations to iLAuNCH partner, New Frontier Technologies, on winning the prestigious JEC 2025 Innovation Award in the Digital, AI & Data category! Their groundbreaking project, DigiTwin 3D Imaging and Virtual Testing, showcases excellence in carbon fibre composite technology for space applications. This innovation enables detailed 3D quality assessments and high-fidelity virtual testing, ensuring that performance requirements are meticulously met. This is a very important and necessary consideration for high-performance fibre reinforced composites. New Frontier Technologies has already used the DigiTwin capability to benefit an iLAuNCH project to develop launch vehicle structures. It enabled efficient optimisation of the design and additive manufacture of a carbon composite rocket body that successfully ran to the required qualification vibration level without damage using the NASA Sounding Rocket random input vibration profile. Read more - https://lnkd.in/gs6j2nfb This international honour, awarded by an independent panel of experts, highlights New Frontier Technologies commitment to pioneering advancements in the space industry. We are excited to see this cutting-edge technology showcased at the JEC World 2025 Exhibition in Paris this March! #SpaceTechnology #JEC2025 #iLAuNCH #SpaceIndustry #Innovation #DigitalTwins Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA) JEC Group

Here at ANU Institute for Space | InSpace, we wish all the best to Ute Roessner AM FAA on her new position as CEO at the Australian Research Council. ANU InSpace has been honoured to have Ute serve as Board Member, and she has been a supporter and enthusiast of all our endeavours. Thank you for everything, Ute, and here's to continued collaborations between ARC and ANU InSpace. 👉 Read the ARC media release here: https://lnkd.in/gbZMUAmw

We want to highlight the wonderful experiences of The Australian National University's researcher Alan Chan who is embracing the opportunities he had to participate with AROSE in internationally recognised space workforce training. Please read about his time at the Australian Milo Mission Academy for Lunar Exploration and get inspired!

We are so proud of our Director Anna Moore FTSE who has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's Jackson-Gwilt Medal, recognising outstanding invention, improvement, or development of astronomical or geophysical instrumentation or techniques. This prestigious award is testimony to her life's work and the nomination comprised of achievements in astronomical instrumentation, as director of the AITC and founder of ANU Institute for Space | InSpace, as well as creating impact more broadly for women in science. We are so happy to celebrate with her and look forward to seeing her receive the medal at this year's National Astronomy Meeting in Durham, UK in July.

An excellent opportunity to be part of IAC 2025 has been advertised, please see below for information on how you can submit a proposal to curate and contribute to Special Session discussions on new and innovative topics around the Congress theme: Sustainable Space: Resilient Earth.

2025 is here and ANU Institute for Space | InSpace is ready to hit the ground running. 2024 was an inspiring year for InSpace with conferences, events, VIP meet and greets, launches and talks, iLAuNCH Trailblazer projects commencing, the Australian Centre for Space Governance prospering, OZFuel development gaining momentum and support, National Space Qualification Network (NSQN) building on its success and Moon to Mars initiatives going into hyperdrive. We also continued our commitment to driving the positive narrative about the endless and wonderful possibilities that space research can provide Australia and the world and how we at ANU are involved with building the sustainable developments, collaborations and innovation to not only boost the space sector but also solve society’s biggest problems.   So, what are we at InSpace looking forward to this year? 💫 Leading the ANU bid for the Future of Space CRC (more to come on this soon) 🛩️ Avalon Australian International Airshow 2025 🚀 IAC 2025 Sydney 🛰️ iLAuNCH Trailblazer delivering more project results 🌌 National Space Qualification Network (NSQN) growing the community   Looking forward to working with our partners, collaborators old and new and the wonderful The Australian National University community to keep the space adventures going strong!   📸 : The InSpace team before our Christmas break, all looking tired but off to our Xmas lunch to talk about how we have space dreams ready to realise in 2025.  

This news made our day. Well done to all - exciting times ahead for the HIAF-ZES partnership.

We're over the moon to be part of the ELO2 consortium that has been selected by the Australian Space Agency to build Australia's first lunar rover, "Roo-ver"! This landmark program will make history for the Australian space sector, driving innovation and growing the industry. Associate Director, Strategic Projects Kate Ferguson said "We're delighted to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime mission and proud to collaborate with the whole @ELO2 consortium as we work towards this historic mission."

Congratulations to our Mission Specialist Professor Tracy Smart AO and Prof. Gordon Cable AM and Kate Manderson and their team for successfully running the first co-badged and designed course, "Principles of Aeromedical Certification for Medical Specialists" at The Australian National University's School of Medicine and Psychology along with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). Here's to many more courses next year.

ANU Institute for Space | InSpace was presented with the Clare Burton Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion last week and our Director Anna Moore FTSE collected the Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Contribution to the The Australian National University.   The Clare Burton Award represents so much to us as an institution because when InSpace started in 2018, a founding principle was based around gender and cultural diversity, bringing indigenous and first nations voices to the table and leading multidisciplinary research initiatives.    We feel we practise what we preach and since the start we have had over 50% of female representation in our institute and on our board, which is especially poignant given that the STEM and especially the space sector is predominantly male dominated. Additionally, our InSpace team is multicultural with 11 nationalities represented. We feel that these diverse backgrounds also bring something special to our team and our work and this has driven our success.    InSpace works with 18 multidisciplinary ANU academic researchers with specialties in space research, all of whom come from diverse backgrounds that bring their various experiences and perspectives to the InSpace portfolio. Internally, our team are collaborative, supportive and we foster an environment based around mutual trust for each other’s work and life and we have found this makes for a positive and innovative team that can work at a high-level.   We would like to thank the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research Initiatives and Infrastructure Professor Ute Roessner AM FAA and her team for their eternal support and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) Lachlan Blackhall and his team along with the InSpace board for their time and encouragement.    Here’s to many more wonderful projects and collaborations in 2025. InSpace Kate Ferguson / Benjamin Bek / Krysia Derecki / Dr. Cassandra Steer Christopher Kourloufas / Anupam Kumar Pilli / Natasha Disha Emily Schuster / Paris Chen InSpace Mission Specialists Dr Zena Assaad / Associate Professor Francis Bennet Dr Ben Bramble / Caitlin Byrt / John Close / Doris Grosse Junichiro Kawaguchi / Dr. David W. Kim / Penny King Hanna Kurniawati / Robert Mahony / Kirk McKenzie Maria Racionero / Professor Tracy Smart AO / Professor Paul Tregoning Eduardo Trifoni / Dr Emma Tucker / Marta Yebra InSpace Board Sue Barrell AO FTSE / Kate Lundy / Helen Sullivan / Kiaran Kirk AM FAHMS ANU Research and Innovation