The Space Show

2023.07.26 | How to be a Space Tourist without leaving the Earth

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 26 July 2023:

Australia’s Moon to Mars Initiative 2020—2026

The following 10 projects will share in close to $40 million under the Demonstrator Mission Grants program of the Moon to Mars initiative:

  • $6.2M to the Australian National University to develop Laser Technology for the next GRACE mission
  • $5.2M to Advanced Navigation Pty. Ltd. for Project LUNA – Navigation and Guidance Technology for Lunar Exploration
  • $4.5M to the Australian National University to lead the Australian Deep Space Optical Ground Station Network
  • $4.4M to the University of Western Australia to establish TeraNet — A Commercial Optical Communications Ground Station Network network
  • $3.9M to Fleet Space Technologies Pty. Ltd. to develop a Seismic Payload for Interplanetary Discovery, Exploration and Research
  • $3.7M to QuantX Labs Pty. Ltd. for KAIROS-1 Mission: A Space Clock Technology Demonstrator
  • $3.6M to Lunaria One Pty. Ltd. for the Australian Lunar Experiment Promoting Horticulture (ALEPH) project
  • $2.8M to Retracer Pty. Ltd for Command and control for on0orbit servicing, assembly and manufacturing vehicles
  • $2.7M Enable Aerospace Pty. Ltd to develop Universal Payload Racking System Flight Qualification and Demonstration
  • $2.6M Melbourne University for SpIRIT satellite operations: An Australian path to exploration beyond Earth


    • Other Australian space news updates:

    • Skykraft delivers world first space-based VHF communication for Air Traffic Management
    • Neumann Drive and Transporter 8 and Space Inventor Edison
    • CSIRO's CyanoSat 1.0
    • Space Machines.


      • How to be a Space Tourist without leaving the Earth with Stewart Gangell:

      Stewart, a member of the Space Association of Australia, recounts his recent visit to the Kennedy Space Center and Visitor Complex, its attractions and meeting astronauts; the American Space Museum and Walk of Fame in Titusville; the Sands Space History Museum near the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station; and seeing a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster and Dragon capsule on the recovery ships in Port Canaveral.

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