Since its establishment in 2018, the Australian Space Agency has been leading the national charge in driving space industry innovation, research and entrepreneurial development.
Based in Adelaide’s very own Lot Fourteen building, the Space Agency plays a huge role in Australia’s COVID economic recovery, as well as creating high-tech jobs and developing technologies that can improve how other areas of the economy recover, including agriculture, medicine and mining.
SA continues to encourage Australians to make their mark in the global space race. This was demonstrated recently when SA company Fleet Space Technologies launched its third nanosatellite launch with SpaceX in March.
In addition, after a two-year evaluation, the Australian Space Agency has also just awarded Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) and the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) their Launch Facilities Licence and the Launch Permit.
Subsequently, ELA—the developer, owner and operator of the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in the Northern Territory—has announced that its client, NASA, will be launching a third NASA rocket, expected to take off from the Northern Territory space centre tonight.
The launch was originally set to take flight tomorrow, but the flight was rescheduled today as the result of incoming bad weather conditions.
The third launch from the Arnhem Space Centre for NASA is the Dual-channel Extreme Ultraviolet Continuum Experiment, or DEUCE, from the University of Colorado Boulder.
DEUCE will measure a so-far unstudied part of their extreme ultraviolet light spectrum. These measurements are needed to model stars similar and smaller than our Sun, as well as understand their effects on planetary atmospheres.
This third launch will be launched at an azimuth of 235 degrees and will ascend to 250 km.
This is the last in a series of three rocket launches that you will be able to live stream from the comfort of your own home.
The live stream will be led by Astrophysicist and Cosmologist, Dr Brad Tucker.
You can watch the livestream when it goes live here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-J5NTUEtJk
The pre-launch coverage commences at 7:57pm ACST / 8:27pm AEST / 10:27am UCT Monday 11 July 2022 with the launch scheduled for half an hour later.
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