Satellite built by Adelaide University researchers part of Australia’s return to space

Building a functioning satellite is considered a mark of an advanced nation, but according to an Adelaide space engineer, Australia has not built one since the mid 1990s.

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and another article

Australian know-how used to design ‘planetary probes’ to explore Earth’s thermosphere

Australia is going back into space with the launch of the first locally built satellites in more than 15 years.

Early next year 50 tiny satellites the size of bedside lamps will be shot out of the International Space Station like planetary probes, in an attempt to discover more about the least understood layer of the atmosphere.

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CrazyNeutrino said:

Satellite built by Adelaide University researchers part of Australia’s return to space

Building a functioning satellite is considered a mark of an advanced nation, but according to an Adelaide space engineer, Australia has not built one since the mid 1990s.

more…

What about FedSat?

Didn’t you read the first article?

CrazyNeutrino said:

Didn’t you read the first article?

from wiki:

FedSat (Australia’s ‘Federation Satellite’) is an Australian scientific research satellite launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan by a NASDA H-IIA launch vehicle in December 2002

not as the researchers state 1997, or as the article suggests ‘late 1990s’

CrazyNeutrino said:

Didn’t you read the first article?

I didn’t read either article.

dv said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Didn’t you read the first article?

I didn’t read either article.

That’s the spirit.

stumpy_seahorse said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Didn’t you read the first article?

from wiki:

FedSat (Australia’s ‘Federation Satellite’) is an Australian scientific research satellite launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan by a NASDA H-IIA launch vehicle in December 2002

not as the researchers state 1997, or as the article suggests ‘late 1990s’

Yes, whats happening to abc science editors ?

had a talk by someone who was building a cubesat at the last astrofest.

CrazyNeutrino said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Didn’t you read the first article?

from wiki:

FedSat (Australia’s ‘Federation Satellite’) is an Australian scientific research satellite launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan by a NASDA H-IIA launch vehicle in December 2002

not as the researchers state 1997, or as the article suggests ‘late 1990s’

Yes, whats happening to abc science editors ?

you probably need to start fact checking articles yourself before posting them

AwesomeO said:

dv said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Didn’t you read the first article?

I didn’t read either article.

That’s the spirit.

On the other hand, I didn’t need to read either article to find fault with the statement that Australia hasn’t produced a satellite for 20 years, when I know damned well we launched FedSat on the centenary of Federation.

The second article snippet contradicts the first one but its 15 year time frame is more in line with the fedsat thing…