ARLA/CLUSTER: Estudantes universitários australianos de Melbourne querem lançar um nano-satélite

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Australian university students to launch satellite in 2018

Students at the University of Melbourne are well advanced on a program to
build a nano-satellite, with the Wireless Institute of Australia assisting
in the IARU frequency and other coordination processes.

Through the Melbourne Space Program (MSP) affiliated with the University of
Melbourne, all is moving ahead for a hand-over of the nano-satellite in
November and a launch as early as January 2018.

Funding comes from the University of Melbourne, while the Melbourne Space
Program is an organisation that holds the licensing, and other matters
related to the launch.

In a media release, the MSP revealed that plans are well under way with
rideshare provider SpaceFlight with a contract signed for a November
hand-off and its launch as early as January 2018. It has involved a group
of ambitious students, seeking to understand and help redefine the
Australian space sector through innovation in education, economics and
policy, as well as engineering.

Australia is the only Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) nation without a space agency. In 1966, University of Melbourne
students built Australia’s first satellite that was launched in 1970 as
Australis Oscar 5 to be tracked by 200 radio amateurs in 27 different
countries.

The Melbourne Space Program has about 70 active members who are students
ranging from 1st year university to masters level and post-graduate.

The key objectives include being the first students to launch an Australian
nano-satellite, create education, research in space, collaborate with
academia and industry, and promote gender parity in the STEM (science,
technology, engineering and mathematics) and Arts disciplines.

Work was continuing to launch Australia’s first nano-satellite and more
news is expected in coming months.


*Fred Swainston VK3DAC/VK4FE* WIA STEM Coordinator
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