Page 5 - Mount Stromlo News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Date Time $2.5 million grant to boost space payload testing capabilities Ensuring Australian-made satellites and other sensitive electronic equipment will operate correctly in space is the aim of a $2.5 million grant provided by the Morrison Government to the Australian National University (ANU). The funding will enable the ANU and its space research partners to establish a National Space Qualification Network (NSQN), which will offer end-to-end payload testing services to Australian manufacturers. Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Christian Porter said creating an end-to-end test...

Designed in Ireland, assembled in Australia, pointed at the stars In the 1860s the Dublin engineer Thomas Grubb built the world’s most advanced telescope about 3 hours ago Dr J Patrick Greene Great Melbourne Telescope: the instrument being installed in 1869, after it was shipped in pieces from the works of Thomas Grubb, in Dublin. Photograph: Museums Victoria   On July 3rd, 1866, a dramatic event took place in the Dublin suburb of Rathmines, not far from the Grand Canal,...

The enlarged Cotter Dam, an 80-metre-high wall holds back about 76 billion litres of water. Photo: Icon Water. Three of the four main dams of Canberra, the Cotter, Corin, and Bendora are all sitting at 100 per cent capacity…. so much water; where has it all come from? NICK OVERALL takes a look. SITTING behind the huge concrete dams of Canberra right now is around 270 billion litres of water, or the equivalent of 100,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Three of the four main dams of Canberra, the Cotter, Corin, and Bendora are all sitting at 100 per cent capacity. Googong Dam, upstream from ...