The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is a leading Australian research and teaching university with a significant presence in the space industry. Through its Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER), UNSW conducts research, innovation, and education to develop space capabilities relevant to Australia's needs. UNSW has key partnerships with the Australian government, Defence, and the international space community. UNSW delivers Masters-level qualifications for Space, in the Masters of Space Engineering and Space Operations. Key activities include advanced satellite systems, geospatial research, Earth observation, robotics, and telecommunications.
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UNSW Canberra Space and collaborators at Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, and Safran are working through the COMHET laboratory to develop advanced iodine plasma chemistry models.
UNSW Canberra Space is conducting research into iodine plasma behaviour, new propulsion concepts, and system designs tailored to iodine.
UNSW Canberra Space researchers are using an advanced iodine plasma chemistry model to interpret laboratory measurements and support numerical simulations for future iodine-fuelled propulsion system design.
UNSW Canberra Space partnered with the University of Michigan to carry out an audit tracking the evolution of iodine propulsion systems from initial design through to on-orbit performance.
HEO is a UNSW spin-out company specialising in non-Earth imaging and high-frequency orbital insights.
The planned mission will extend UNSW Canberra Space’s previous work into fuel-efficient, propulsion-based manoeuvres under operationally realistic conditions.
HEO and UNSW Canberra Space will undertake Australia’s first rendezvous and proximity operations mission using an active propulsion system.
UNSW Canberra Space operates a university-led space domain awareness sensor network and is developing an experimental SDA Operations Centre.
UNSW Canberra Space has built and flown five satellites across four missions since 2015.
UNSW Canberra Space demonstrated formation flying without active propulsion between 2021 and 2023.
Defence Trailblazer’s Advanced Innovation Fund is providing support for the HEO and UNSW Canberra Space RPO project.
The UNSW Canberra Space research team will apply expertise in mission design and sensor modeling to adapt academic research for defense-ready applications.
The mission builds upon UNSW Canberra Space’s 2021–2023 demonstration of propulsionless RPO formation flying.
HEO and UNSW Canberra Space have partnered to execute Australia’s first Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) mission featuring an active propulsion system.
Associate Professor Melrose Brown, Director of UNSW Canberra Space and Defence Trailblazer Theme Lead, leads the project research team.
Following the January acquisition of Continuum-1, the joint HEO and UNSW Canberra Space team has entered the mission planning phase for the RPO maneuvers.
The mission will help establish Australia’s first experimental Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Operations Centre on the UNSW campus.
Interstellar Innovation has supplied multiple tonnes of lunar regolith simulant to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) for their Moonyard test bed.
Professor Serkan Saydam is the Chair of Mining Engineering at UNSW Sydney and Deputy Director of ACSER.
The delivery of lunar regolith simulant to UNSW's Moonyard Test Bed allows for large-scale testing of rover mobility and excavation.