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UNSW startup to launch camera into space
HEO Robotics is teaming up with Space Machines Company to launch an on-orbit inspection camera into space.
HEO Robotics Founders Dr Hiranya Jayakody and Dr Will Crowe. Photo: UNSW.
UNSW Sydney startup HEO Robotics’ space camera is scheduled to launch onboard Optimus, the nation’s largest satellite delivery vehicle developed by Space Machines Company, early next year.
The space camera, named ‘Potoroo’, is HEO Robotics’ first fully owned space-based camera to acquire high quality imagery of valuable assets in space.
Images captured by the camera help satellite owners and operators better understand the health status of their assets and accelerate the process of resolving any issue occurring on their satellites.
Spotting bushfires from space
NOAA Satellite images of the 2019 bushfires in Australia. Credit: Wikimedia commons.
Storm-chasing drones, smart water bombers, and a constellation of bushfire-spotting satellites could be the key to reducing Australia’s devastating bushfire toll.
Imagine lightning strikes a tree in a deep, dry valley. A satellite equipped with infrared sensors detects it within minutes and notifies a drone. The camera-equipped drone zips to the site, and the blaze is confirmed (since satellites can have high rates of false alarms).
Then a C-130 plane, flying high and safe overhead, drops a water-carrying glider with an automated guidance system over the fire, putting it out before it can become a devastating bushfire.
Space Machines Company, an Australian in-space transportation provider, has signed a deal with
Fireball International to deploy its bushfire detection satellite into its final orbit on board Space Machines Company’s orbital transport, Optimus-1, in 2022. The company announced the deal on Tuesday. This is Space Machines’ first customer agreement.
This agreement aims to strengthen Australia’s defense against extreme weather events, and it is another example of the developing space market in Australia. The Space Machines orbital transport vehicle Optimus-1 for this mission will be launched by Australian launch company
“We are proud to enable this vital and pioneering Australian space technology deployment. The fact that three Australian companies are joining to accomplish this vital mission is evidence of a growing sovereign industrial capability in space technology in our country,” Space Machines Company founder and CEO Rajat Kulshrestha said in a statement.
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