The AITC News & Events page highlights significant moments and updates related to the Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre at ANU.

News

Friday, 27 Jul 2018

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.

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Photo by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre.
Thursday, 03 May 2018

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

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Astrophysics Lecture
18 Mar 2025 | 11am

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."

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A large astronomical observatory dome captured at sunset with long streaks in the sky created by airplane contrails.
18 Sep 2024 | 9am

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.

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