Collaborative platform enabling Australia’s next space missions

SmartSat CRC announced at the 17th Australian Space Forum the first four new jointly funded space research projects and opened further funding opportunities in partnership with New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

The four initial research projects, commencing in August 2024, include research into monitoring methane emissions, enhancing real-time monitoring of greenhouse gases, managing free space optical communication nodes across Australia and New Zealand, improving the tracking of space objects, and developing a joint AUS-NZ concept for maritime domain awareness.

We speak with Dr Carl Seubert, Chief Research Officer at SmartSat CRC and Director of the Scarlett Lab.

Dr Seubert joined SmartSat in May 2021, after nine years NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as a Senior Aerospace Engineer. After graduating First Class Honours in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Sydney, Dr Seubert completed a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology (USA) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder (USA). As NASA JPL’s Manager of Formation Control Testbed and Guidance and Control Engineer, Dr Seubert led research and technology development for spacecraft formation flight, future Earth observation missions and precise planetary landing. This includes designing the spacecraft pointing control algorithms and software for the upcoming Europa Clipper mission and the next Mars lander mission.

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