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1 Monday September 26 Monday Opening 9:00-9:05 Conf. Organisers 9:05-9:30 Official Opening Monday AM Plenary I 9:30-10:00 Mike Tobar 10:00-10:30 Kerrie Dougherty Kerrie Dougherty M. E. Tobar, A. N. Luiten, E. N. Ivanov, J. G. Hartnett, W. Featherstone, P. Teunissen, C. Vale, B. Hall, R. B. Warrington, P. Fisk The Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space Mission and the Australian Research Environment Space Science Education in Australia: where is it now? What paths could it take? 10:30-11:00 Morning Tea Monday National Context 11:00-11:30 Michele Clement National Space Policy 11:30-12:00 Clare McLoughlin Roadmap :00-12:20 Brett Biddington Brett Biddington Getting the Narrative Right: Next Steps in the Australian Space Journey 12:20-12:40 Phil Diamond Phil Diamond The Square Kilometre Array: project status and Australia s bid to host the telescope 12:40-13:00 Russell Boyce NCSS & Decadal Plan 13:00-14:00 Lunch Space Capabilities, Education and Monday Hazards 14:00-14:15 Roy Sach Roy Sach Where is Space? Indicative Space Activities for Australian Capability 14:15-14:30 Cameron Boyd Cameron Boyd, Daniel Faber, Shaun Wilson Development L. Fogarty, J. Bland-Hawthorn I. H. Cairns, X. Wu, C. Betters, J. Funamoto, S. G. Leon- 14:30-14:45 Lisa Fogarty Saval, A. Monger, S. Xiao The i-inspire Satellite Mark Gargano, Marjan Zadnik, David Blair, Earth and Space Sciences Professional Development: Does Fred Deshon, Mzamose Gondwe, Auriol Mark Gargano it make a real difference to the classroom experiences of Heary, Nancy Longnecker, Marina Pitts, you and your students? 15:00-15:15 Grady Venville, Brad Whitaker Page 1 of 11

2 15:15-15:30 Jizhang Sang Jizhang Sang, Craig Smith An Analysis of Observations from EOS Space Debris Tracking System 15:30-15:45 Duncan Steel Duncan Steel Space Debris: Quantifying and Mitigating the Impact Hazard Modelling the evolution of the Low Earth Orbit debris James Bennett, Jizhang Sang 15:45-16:00 James Bennett population POSTER Adverts (1 min each) Monday Planetary I Stream 2 - In parallel with other afternoon events 14:00-14:15 Nicole Zellner Nicole Zellner Impacts on the Moon: Understanding the Record of Lunar Impact Glasses 14:15-14:30 Marc Norman Marc Norman The Lunar Impact Record: Greatest Hits and One Hit Wonders Robert Pidgeon, Alexander Nemchin, Marion The earliest history of the Moon and the Earth: zircon 14:30-14:45 Robert Pidgeon Grange geochronological evidence 14:45-15:00 Trevor Ireland Trevor Ireland Samples from the Hayabusa Mission to Itokawa :00-15:15 Paolo Sossi Paolo Sossi, Oliver Nebel Metal Silicate Fractionation of Iron Isotopes in Chondritic Meteorites 15:15-15:30 Yuri Amelin Yuri Amelin A supernova-induced irradiation event in the early Solar System ñ not confirmed by new 176Lu-176Hf data 15:30-15:45 Daniel Bunker Daniel Bunker, Jason Held A Tether Deployment System for Picosatellites 15:45-16:00 Jason Held Jason Held, Alex Green, Daniel Bunker Vostok 4-Pines Stout, the First Space Beer: The Flight Test and Research Plan 16:00-16:30 Afternoon tea 16:30-18:30 Posters & Cocktail Reception Tuesday September 27 Government Units Tuesday IPS 9:00-9:20 David Neudegg David Neudegg The Bureau of Meteorology Space Weather Services 9:20-9:40 Kimberley Clayfield Kimberley Clayfield CSIRO Space Sciences and Technology Program 9:40-10:00 Andrew Klekociuk Andrew Klekociuk Australia s Antarctic Interests in Remote Sensing 10:00-10:20 Tony Lindsay Tony Lindsay DSTO Space R&D A National Partnership 10:20-10:40 Adam Lewis Adam Lewis Geoscience Australia Page 2 of 11

3 10:40-11:00 Morning Tea Tuesday Plenaries II 11:00-11:30 Enrico Flamini Enroco Flamini The Italian Space Agency's science projects 11:30-12:00 Tanya Vladimirova Tanya Vladimirova Microelectronics Design and Embedded Systems for Small Satellites 12:00-12:30 Sergio Leon-Saval Hawthorn Space Photonics: a new era of space instrumentation 12:30-13:00 Fred Menk Fred Menk, John Devlin The Next Generation OTH Radar 13:00-14:00 Lunch Tuesday Space Physics I 14:00-14:15 Zahra Bouya Zahra Bouya, Mike Terkildsen Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis applied to Australian regional ionospheric Total Electron Content, based on GPS observations and Spherical Cap Harmonic Analysis (SCHA). 14:15-14:30 Thomas Kane, Roman Makarevich, John HF radar observations of ionospheric backscatter during Thomas Kane Devlin geomagnetically quiet periods An analysis of the electric field dependence of the E-region B. A. Carter, R. A. Makarevich, J. C. Devlin irregularity phase velocity using a new HF radar 14: Brett Carter and A. Mcdonald configuration 14:45-15:00 Murray Sciffer Murray Sciffer, Colin Waters Estimating ULF wave equatorial electric fields from ground magnetic field measurements Relationship Between the Earth s Radiation Belts and the Fred Menk 15:00-15:15 Frederick Menk, Craig Rodger, Mark Clilverd Atmosphere Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves Observed by Cluster 15:15-15:30 Brian Fraser Y. H. Liu, B. J. Fraser, F. W. Menk near the Plasmapause Tuesday Space Tech I 14:00-14:15 Muhammad Esa Attia 14:15-14:30 Ken Ho Muhammad Esa Attia, Ali Haydar Goktogan, Salah Sukkarieh Ken Ho, Thierry Peynot, Salah Sukkarieh 14: Sin Ting Angela Lui Sin Ting Angela Lui, Salah Sukkarieh 14:45-15:00 Suchet Bargoti Suchet Bargoti Martian Rovers 'Pathways To Space' Technical Paper Analysis of Terrain Geometry Representations for Traversability of a Planetary Rover Decentralised Decision Making with Hard Constraints for Multi-Wheeled Rovers Real-time obstacle detection and avoidance in a Mars Environment using depth image from a Kinect sensor Page 3 of 11

4 15:00-15:15 Johanne Thibault Johanne Thibault, Ali Haydar Göktogan A Manipulator Development for an Experimental Mars Rover 15:15-15:30 Jayde Livingstone Jayde Livingstone, Dale Prokopovich, Marco Petasecca, Michael Lerch, Yigal Horowitz, Mark Reinhard, Vladimir Perevertaylo, Anatoly Rosenfeld Detectors for Micro- and Nanodosimetry in Space Radiation Fields 15:30-16:00 Afternoon tea Tuesday Hypersonics 16:00-16:15 Albert Chong Albert K. Chong, David Buttsworth, Neil Mudford, Michael Jokic, Sudantha Balage, Sean O'Byrne, Andrew Neely Photogrammetric application at USQ Ludwieg tunnel facility 16:15-16:30 Amit Saha Amit Saha, *Tapabrata Ray, * Hideaki Ogawa, *Russell Boyce LEARNING FROM EVOLUTIONARY-ALGORITHM BASED DESIGN OPTIMISATION OF AXISYMMETRIC SCRAMJET INLETS 16:30-16:45 Yedhu Krishna Yedhu Krishna, Joseph John Kurtz, Sean O Byrne Diode Laser Measurement of Mach Number and Angle of Attack in a Hypersonic Inlet 16:45-17:00 James Barth James Barth, Vincent Wheatley, Michael Smart Effects of Ethylene Combustion in a Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layer 17:00-17:15 Umar Sheikh U. A. Sheikh, R. G. Morgan, T. J. McIntyre, T. Eichmann Vacuum Ultraviolet Emission Spectroscopy Measurements on the Surface of a Blunt Body at Superorbital Velocities D. J. Petty, V. Wheatley, M. K. Smart & S. A. A Parametric Study of Oxygen Enriched Scramjet 17:15-17:30 David Petty Razzaqi Combustion 17:30-17:45 Neil Mudford Neil R. Mudford, Sean O Byrne, David Buttsworth and Sudantha Balage Aerodynamic Coefficients in Hypersonic Flight Determined from Free Flight in a Wind Tunnel 17:45-18:00 Dawid Preller Dawid Preller and Michael Smart Longitudinal Control Strategy for Hypersonic Accelerating Vehicles Tuesday ASRP I 16:00-16:24 16:00-16:25 Kerrie Dougherty Kerrie Dougherty, Carol Oliver and Jennifer Fergusson 16:24-16:48 16:25-16:50 Elias Aboutanios Elias Aboutanios Glenn Frankish, Simon Oliver, Leo 16:48-17:12 16:50-17:15 Glenn Frankish Lymburner and Medhavy Thankappan 17:12-17:36 17:15-17:50 Kefei Zhang Kefei Zhang 17:36-18:00 16:00-16:29 Andrew Clarke VIPAC Pathways to Space: a Mission to Foster the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers A Comprehensive Tertiary Education Program in Satellite Systems Engineering Unlocking the Landsat Archive: a national capability for Earth observation data analysis. The Australian Space Research Program Project - Platform Technologies for Space Atmosphere and Climate Page 4 of 11

5 Wednesday September 28 Wednesday Plenary III 9:00-9:30 William Klipstein William Klipstein NASA s GRAIL Mission to the Moon and Related Gravity- Sensing Instruments 9:30-10:00 Naomi Mathers N. Mathers and M. Pakakis Teaching STEM Using Scenario-based Learning: Mission Programs at VSSEC 10:00-10:30 Harvey Butcher Harvey Butcher Mt Stromlo capabilities and interests in space science 10:30-11:00 Morning Tea Wednesday Remote Sensing & Geodesy 11:00-11:15 Denis Margetic 11:15-11:30 Alan Forghani Denis Margetic, Bodo Zeschke, Christopher Down, Chen-Hsu Su Alan Forghani, Anisul Islam, Richard Moxham, Jason Alexandra 11:30-11:45 Victor Fok Victor Fok, David Lingard, David Clark Adapting and developing multi-spectral satellite imagery at the Bureau of Meteorology The application of remote sensing to assess water quality monitoring in the Murray Darling Basin Using a Genetic Algorithm to Optimise Maritime Surveillance Performed by Space-based Sensors Page 5 of 11

6 11:45-12:00 Tzu-Pang Tseng Tzu-Pang Tseng, Kefei Zhang, Jizhang Sang Precise orbit determination of low earth orbiters: analysis of orbit errors and quality assessment of receiver oscillators 12:00-12:15 Brett Carter B. A. Carter, R. Norman, C. Wang, Y. Li, S. Gordon, G. Hooper and K. Zhang An investigation of the factors controlling the ionospheric scintillation levels observed by space-based and groundbased GPS receivers 12:15-12:30 Xiuping Jia Xiuping Jia Hyperspectral Imaging and Feature Mining 12:30-12:45 Md. Ali Hossain Md. Ali Hossain, Mark Pickering, Xiuping Jia Supervised Feature Reduction Based on a Mutual Information Measure for Hyperspectral Image Classification 12:45-13:00 Hai Tung Chu Hai Tung Chu Integration of textural information from multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for land cover classification Student Space Wednesday Research 11:00-11:15 Jiraporn Thongcharonpunporn Jiraporn Thongcharonpunporn AUSROC Nano Stage1 Propulsion Sub-system Pariwat Witthawatpongtorn and Amrat 11:15-11:30 Pariwat Witthawatpongtorn Srisajjalertwaja Stage 1 Engine Regenerative Cooling Design of AUSROC Nano 11:30-11:45 Amrat Srisajjalertwaja Amrat Srisajjalertwaja, Pariwat Witthawatpongtorn, Lachlan Thompson AUSROC Nano stage one engine cooling system 11:45-12:00 Jeremy Liu Jeremy Liu, Lachlan Thompson Design of the Ausroc Nano 2nd/3rd Stage Separation System 12:00-12:15 Pakpoom Oraphin Pakpoom Oraphin, Lachlan Thompson Nose and Fairing Payload Design of AUSROC NANO Launch Vehicle 12:15-12:30 Kalun Chow Kalun Chow, Lachlan Thompson Finite Element Analysis on Ausroc Nano Launch Vehicle 12:30-12:45 Angelo Villarosa Angelo Villarosa, Aubrey Keller Aerodynamic Analysis of AusROC Nano using CFD and Wind Tunnel Testing Single paper presentation 12:45-13:00 Jiro Funamoto J. Funamoto, X. Wu, I.H. Cairns, J. Bland- Hawthorn, C. Betters, L. Fogarty, S.G. Leon- Saval, A. Monger, S. Xiao Engineering the i-inspire satellite 13:00-13:15 Kane Stone Kane Stone Investigating global stratospheric pollution from the 2006 Victorian bushfire using modern satellite data 13:00-14:00 Lunch Wednesday ASRP II Page 6 of 11

7 Daniel Shaddock D.A. Shaddock, P. Tregoning, D.E. McClelland, D.M.R. Wuchenich, A.J. Sutton, A.Stochino, C.M. Mow-Lowry, J. Miller, S.P. Francis, S. McClusky, E.-K. Potter, N. Darbeheshti, M. Blundell, C. Smith, J. Burke, S. Dligatch, K.L. Green, J.A. Seckold, B.F. Oreb, M.B. Gray, M.T.L. Hsu, R.B. Warrington, K. McKenzie, G. de Vine, R.E. Spero, W.M Folkner, W.M Klipstein, M. Watkins, B.S. Sheard, C. Mahrdt, G.H. Heinzel, K. Danzman The GRACE Follow-on Mission 14:00-14:30 14:30-15:00 Shaun Wilson Antarctic Broadband 15:00-15:30 Steve Tsitsas Garada - SAR formation flying Wednesday Planetary II 14:00-14:30 Gian Gabriele Ori Gian Gabriele Ori Title TBD 14:30-14:45 Jon Clarke Jonathan Clarke, Michael West Australian planetary analogues and their global context: a status report 14:45-15:00 Duanne Hamacher 15:00-15:15 Joseph Leach Joseph Leach 15:15-15:30 Steven Hobbs Steven Hobbs Duane Hamacher, Andrew Buchel, Craig O'Neill, Tui Britton The Palm Valley depression, Central Australia: an erosional escarpment or an impact crater? Base Surge Eruption in the Tuff Rings of South East Australia: Possible implications for the interpretation of Martian surfical geology. GIS, Erosion and Mars: What Lake George Gullies can Tell us about Mars 15:30-16:00 Afternoon tea 16:00-18:00 Italy-Australian Space Symposium Thursday September 29 Thursday Plenary IV 9:00-9:30 Mike Wheatland Mike Wheatland, Stuart Gilchrist, Pat Noble, Paul Cally, Alina Donea, Aimee Norton Solar flares, active regions, and associated Australian research Page 7 of 11

8 Upper atmosphere and near space research at Buckland 9:30-10:00 Iain Reid Iain Reid Park 10:00-10:30 Marc Norman Marc Norman Planetary Science In Australia: :30-11:00 Morning Tea Thursday Space Physics II 11:00-11:15 Graham Steward Graham Steward Automatic Recognition of Complex Magnetic Regions on the Sun in GONG Magnetogram Images and Prediction of Flares: Techniques for the Flare Warning Program Flarecast 11:15-11:30 Hagen Schulte in den Baeumen Hagen Schulte in den Baeumen, Iver H. Cairns, Peter A. Robinson Nonzero azimuthal magnetic fields at the solar source surface: Extraction, model, and implications Robert T. Duffin, Stephen M. White, Paul S. Type III-L Solar Radio Bursts and their Associations with 11:30-11:45 Robert T. Duffin Ray, Michael L. Kaiser Solar Energetic Proton Events 11:45-12:00 Bo Li Bo Li, Iver Cairns, Peter Robinson Type III Solar Radio Bursts Perturbed by Coronal Shocks 12:00-12:15 Brett Layden Brett Layden, John Percival, Iver Cairns, Peter Robinson Exact quadratic longitudinal response of a Maxwellian plasma and its application to the rate of electrostatic decay David Herne, Mervyn Lynch, John Space Weather Support For The Murchison Radio Kennewell, Charles Carrano, Keith Grove, Observatory 12:15-12:30 John Kennewell Anthea Coster, Divya Oberoi Daniel Graham, Iver Cairns, Peter 12:30-12:45 Daniel Graham Robinson, Olaf Skjaeraasen Beam-driven turbulence and localized structures 12:45-13:00 Andrew Layden Andrew Layden, Iver Cairns, Peter Robinson Electrostatic decay in a magnetized plasma with applications to polarized Langmuir waves in the solar wind Thursday Planetary III 11:00-11:30 Roberto Orosei Roberto Orosei Title TBD 11:30-11:45 Jeremy Bailey Jeremy Bailey Methane and Deuterium in Titan's Atmosphere 11:45-12:00 Franklin Mills F.P. Mills, M. Sundaram Shunmuga M. Allen and Y.L. Yung Preliminary modelling of odd nitrogen photochemistry on Venus Quantifying Carbon Monoxide Variation Below Venus Daniel V. Cotton and Jeremy Bailey 12:00-12:15 Daniel Cotton Clouds Constraining weathering processes on Venus from particle size distributions and Magellan Synthetic Aperture Radar 12:15-12:30 Elyse Schinella Elyse Schinella, Craig O'Neill (SAR) 12:30-12:45 Eriita Jones Eriita Jones, Graziella Caprarelli, Jonathan Clarke, Franklin Mills, Remote Identification of Soil and Moisture Variation at Gale Crater, Mars 12:45-13:00 Rathini Mahendran Rathini Mahendran, Graziella Caprarelli A new approach to impact crater dating of Martian surfaces Page 8 of 11

9 13:00-14:00 Lunch Thursday 14:00-14:15 14:15-14:30 Space Technology II Eamonn Glennon Jeremy Davis Eamonn Glennon, Nagaraj Shivaramaiah, Peter Mumford and Kevin Parkinson Jeremy Davis, Kumaravelu Ganesan, Susanna Guatelli, Marco Petasecca, Jayde Livingstone, Michael Lerch, Dale A. Prokopovich, Mark I. Reinhard, Rainer N. Siegele, Steven Prawer, David Jamieson, Zdenka Kuncic and Anatoly B. Rosenfeld C. Betters, I. H Cairns, J. Bland-Hawthorn, X. Wu, L. Fogarty, J. Funamoto, S.G. Leon- Saval, A. Monger, S.Z. (A.) Xiao A GPS Receiver Designed for Cubesat Operation Characterisation of a Novel Diamond-Based Microdosimeter for Radioprotection Applications in Space Environments 14:30-14:45 Chris Betters Instrumentation of the i-inspire satellite. Tanya Vladimirova, Nigel P. Bannister, John Fothergill, George W. Fraser, Mark Lester, Darren Wright, Michael J. Pont, David J. 14:45-15:00 Tanya Vladimirova Barnhart CubeSat Mission for Space Weather Monitoring 15:00-15:15 Jiro Funamoto J. Funamoto, J. Khachan, A. Israel The Charge Exchange Thruster 15:15-15:30 Richard Samuels R, Samuels, B. Davidson, and M. Blair ASRI Small Sounding Rocket Program 15:30-16:00 Kirby Ikin Kirby ikin / SPACEX Microgravity Research on board the SPACEX Dragon Thursday Planetary IV 14:00-14:15 Maria Lugaro Maria Lugaro, Amanda I. Karakas, Carolyn Doherty, Kurt Liffman, and Sarah Maddison Radioactivity in the early Solar System 14:15-14:30 What can the elemental abundances tell us about the site of Aditya Chopra Aditya Chopra and Charles Lineweaver the origin of life? 14: Charles Lineweaver Charles Lineweaver and Aditya Chopra What can life on Earth tell us about life in universe? 14:45-15:00 Duncan Steel Duncan Steel A hypothesis for Mercury s high metal content 15:00-15:15 Jonti Horner Jonti Horner, Barrie Jones Jupiter - Friend or Foe? An answer 15:15-15:30 Jonti Horner Jonti Horner, Patryk Sofia Lykawka Are two of the Neptune Trojans dynamically unstable? 15:30-16:00 15:30-16:00 Afternoon tea 16:00-17:00 Closing/Future/Feed back Page 9 of 11

10 Posters - Monday afternoon 4 Eriita Jones NEW UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION Eriita Jones, Graziella Caprarelli, Fr OF THE MARTIAN SURFACE Assessing the Survival of Simple Sugars 21 Vanessa P. McCaffrey Vanessa P. McCaffrey, Nicolle E. B. After High Velocity Impact Solar cycle variations of the occurrence of Vasili V. Lobzin, Iver H. Cairns, and coronal type III radio bursts 30 Vasili Lobzin Peter A. Robinson and a new solar activity index Sea State Estimation Using Data Collected Kegen Yu, Chris Rizos and Andrew Dem 41 Kegen Yu from Low-Altitude Airborne Experiments Crater retention ages of the ice-dust mantle 42 Malte Willmes Malte Willmes, Dennis Reiss, Haralddeposit in Malea Planum, Mars 47 John Kennewell James D Biggs and John A Kennewell Orbital Space Debris and Sky Glow Size Xiao, Xiaofeng Wu, Xueliang Bai, Iver Cairns, Joss Bland- Hawthorn, Jiro Funamoto, Anthony Monger, Lisa Fogarty, Sergio 52 Size Xiao Leon-Saval, Chris Betters i-inspire MWA Solar Tube-Satellite Data Access Tools Bus Design and New 82 Robert T. Duffin Robert T. Duffin, Iver H. Cairns, Vas Design Analysis and of Type Development III Solar Radio Of On Bursts Board from 90 Ubaid Bashir Ubaid Bashir, Tayyaba Hannan, RehComputer for Pico-Satellites 97 Alexa Halford Plasmaspheric Density, and Radiation Belt Alexa Halford, Brian Fraser, Steve MElectron Loss During Geomagnetic Storm Encountering the Teeth of the Dragon: The hazard posed to satellites by the anticipated 62 Duncan Steel Duncan Steel, David Asher Draconid meteor storm on 2011 October Duncan Steel Duncan Steel, Harrison Steel Space Reconnaissance: Scanning the Sky with an Optical Arecibo 110 Leon Stepan Leon Stepan, Robert Earl Simulation Hardware Acceleration and Modelling of the of Nanosatellites Karhunen- 103 Tanya Vladimirova Chafik Egho and Tanya Vladimirova Loéve Transform for Compression of 26 Bo Li Predictions of Decimetric Type III Solar Bo Li, Iver Cairns, Yihua Yan, PeterRadio Bursts B. A. Carter, T. A. Kane, A. C. Kellerman, R. Norman, C. Wang, Y. The ionospheric variability leading up to the 72 Brett Carter Li and K. Zhang Japanese Tohoku earthquake Page 10 of 11

11 17 Varun Prakash Varun Prakash In-model free-flight instrumentation for hypersonic shock tunnel testing 16 Joseph Leach Joseph Leach Some Possible Victorian Analogues of the Flat Topped Volcanoes of Venus Are two of the Neptune Trojans dynamically 40 Jonti Horner Jonti Horner, Patryk Sofia Lykawka unstable? Page 11 of 11

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