Walktime Blog #31: Tour of the Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre

The Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre at Mt Stromlo has developed into an amazing facility, with both excellent physical infrastructure and very smart and experienced staff. Much of the new infrastructure has been built for Australia's part of the Giant Magellan Telescope project, but it also has spin-off benefits that hopefully will spearhead a revival in Australian space technology capabilities and industry. While I was in Canberra for the linux.conf.au 2013 conference I was lucky enough to be given a behind-the-scenes tour led by Dr Naomi Mathers and Roger Franzen.

These facilities may be used for future ArduSat (www.ardusat.org) missions, including as a ground station for communications with the satellites and possibly for integration testing.

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[adrianchen19888]

those are some noisy birds :)

[SuperHouseTV]

I know! I didn't realise how loud the background noise was until I pulled the video onto my computer. I really need to get myself a proper camera and microphone. The Desire HD is OK and it's very convenient to just pull out my phone and start recording, but the quality isn't great.

[BeJ95]

so glad I found this channel ;)

[TradieSays]

There's some impressive engineering going on there! Thanks for sharing Johnno!

[DanRynick]

Finally Videos again!