ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt AC welcomed the funding commitment of $250,000 from the Government to the University's Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC), host of the national facility for space-flight testing.
The Australian National University (ANU) is poised to play a key role to support a new national space agency and to help drive education, research and industry
Professor Michele Trenti from the University of Melbourne will be giving the RSAA Colloquium on "The SpIRIT mission: An Australian Space Telescope contributing to multi-messenger astrophysics."
In 1924, the Commonwealth Solar Observatory was established on Mount Stromlo. Today, Mount Stromlo Observatory is the headquarters of the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and for 100 years, has been a world-renowned community of researchers exploring the heavens.