In mining, safety is paramount. This homegrown auditing technology keeps people safe and machinery working smoothly.

Australia’s contribution to the global space industry has grown with a CSIRO developing a mapping device for the International Space

Koonibba and Whalers Way on the Eyre Peninsula are the (literal) launchpads for bolstering Australia’s space manufacturing capability. For Southern

Tajikistan’s Rogun Dam viewed from above. Image: Google Earth An enormous Soviet-era hydro dam project in Tajikistan has been revitalised thanks to modern engineering ingenuity. This article was originally published in the August 2024 issue of create…

Chemical engineer Dave Evans on the job in Sweden. Image credit: supplied For some engineers, curiosity and a thirst for innovation drive them to venture far from home. Here, two Australians making a name for themselves on the international stage…

The country leads the world in the adoption of solar energy, but what happens when essential national infrastructure becomes a consumer commodity? Australia leads the world in the adoption of solar energy. The installation rate of residential rooftop…

A Europe-Australia collaboration aims to explore the use of hyperspectral imaging in space and find ways to reduce the bandwidth needed to send images to Earth. It solves a problem many of us have – it’s one thing to have hundreds of high-resolution,…

The Australian Space Agency says the future of its flagship “Moon to Mars” initiative is assured despite a component being axed under recent Federal Government funding cuts. The space industry initiative returned to the public spotlight in March when…

The future of a $66 million Australian Space Park proposed for Adelaide Airport is in doubt with businesses withdrawing from the project after the State Labor Government pulled funding for the shared manufacturing facility. The Australian Space Park…

Ten Australian space companies have been awarded a share in almost $40 million of support funding under the Moon to Mars program, even as the fate of the entire project hangs in the balance. A review of the $150 million Moon to Mars program will be…

The Federal Government is to invest between $3 million and $6.3 million in a cooperative project to find a way to recycle disused wind turbine blades. About 90 per cent of an average wind turbine is relatively easy to recycle. The metals in the…

Southern Green Gas’s David Hedger adjusts a module. Can direct air capture be an effective weapon in the fight against global warming? In March 2023, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said that a desperate “everything, everywhere, all at once”…

Australia’s radical new metal-powered Neumann thruster is now in orbit with hopes it could reshape the future of Australia’s embryonic space industry. The Neumann Drive is aboard one of 72 small satellites boosted into space via a SpaceX Falcon 9…

Phillip Island on Victoria’s southern coast, is running off a community battery. The island in Victoria’s southern coast is best known as a holiday haven for Melbourne people and home to the famour little penguin parade, and a motorcycle race. Those…

Space has a more profound impact on the human body than we realised, and astronauts on regular flight schedules may be exposing themselves to brain damage. Related Article Space Exploration A study published in the journal Scientific Reports examined…

It’s supposed to be a demonstration of Australia’s sovereign ability to build its own missiles, but a new rocket taking shape in a suburban Adelaide workshop is changing its target towards a more profitable outcome. Southern Launch is in the final…

The CSIRO has set itself the huge challenge of providing real-time water quality information, using eyes in the sky and on land. Water quality is getting harder to predict. At the same time, it’s becoming dramatically more important to more people in…

A Sydney University team is building a low earth orbit telescope on a shoestring with the mission to find plants “next door,” at Alpha Centauri. “We have a small telescope because we couldn’t afford a big one,” says Professor Peter Tuthill from…

A new safeguards agreement has opened the door for Australia’s embryonic rocket launch industry to host sensitive US rocket and satellite technology. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Joe Biden announced the in-principle Technology…

Foreshore erosion is an increasing problem, affecting, apart from urban foreshores, regional infrastructure, tourism and the environment. And while it’s a problem engineers and ecologists have been battling for centuries, rising sea levels have…