When the Americans eventually send a manned mission to Mars, the whole world will be able to watch ‘live’ television coverage of the event courtesy of CSIRO know-how.
Working from China, CSIRO astronomers have remotely controlled telescopes in three countries and streamed their data to CSIRO’s Parkes Observatory in New South Wales for processing in real time.
CSIRO Office of Space Science and Applications (COSSA) coordinates and promotes CSIRO’s projects in space science and Earth observation, including the management of remote sensing data.
CSIRO staff from the ATNF and the ICT Centre have developed an online archive allowing ready access to all the observations made on the Compact Array since 1990.
CSIRO’s Dr Naomi McClure-Griffiths has been dubbed the 'galactic octopus wrestler' after discovering a new spiral arm of the Milky Way and in this video podcast, she describes how it feels to uncover the secrets of the Galaxy. (3:10)
As a member of the project team working on the Square Kilometre Array, Mr Aaron Chippendale is bringing us a step closer to learning the secrets of life, the universe and everything.
As International SKA Project Engineer, CSIRO astronomer and engineer Dr Peter Hall is helping Australia play a leadership role in the development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the next generation radio telescope.
CSIRO and partner institutions are building a major new radio telescope, the Australian SKA Pathfinder. Positions are now available with this exciting project.
