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UNSW Canberra opens Australia's first space mission design facility
Australia's first national space mission design facility was officially opened today by ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr at UNSW Canberra.
UNSW Canberra Space director Russell Boyce says the new Australian National Concurrent Design Facility (ANCDF) complements Australian National University's spacecraft test facilities and means Canberra now has the capability to develop space missions from start to finish.
"For the first time, Australia has a facility that will enable spacecraft design engineers and scientists to rapidly design and determine the technical and economic viability of proposed space missions," Professor Boyce said.
"Just yesterday, we announced the successful launch into orbit of our first cube satellite, 'Buccaneer', which was developed jointly with scientists from Defence Science Technology (DST). This is the first of many UNSW Canberra missions.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday November 27 2017, @08:48PM (2 children)
Furthermore what exactly is it?
I read that as..... drum roll .... An office building.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday November 27 2017, @08:57PM (1 child)
So they're going to spend a bunch of money on an office building to have a bunch of people run around making Powerpoint slides talking about doing stuff that more advanced nations like Peru have already done, but not actually do anything useful?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @11:14PM
No.
No Powerpoint slides. At least, not that many.
They're gonna create Word files and Excel sheets.
Which is, like, totally different, mate.