Your Career in the Space Sector

Overview

This unit of study aims to provide students with an understanding of the different types of end-user Australian space applications such as research, communications and defence and recognize the importance of collaboration at the domestic and international level.

Unit learning outcomes

Teaching methods

Hawthorn 

Assessment

Content

• This course presents foundational concepts and terminology in space science, rocket science and astronomy and describes how Australian Space Activities are organized and managed
• Overview of the space environment including key terms and definitions to operate effectively within space industries
• International space agencies, management of operations, space exploration and budgets
• Global and Australian Space Economy
• Overview of the Australian Space Agency, current research and capabilities
• Legislative and regulatory frameworks and institutions that govern space industries, both domestically and internationally
• Identification of opportunities in Australian Space Industry, overview of government road map and opportunities
• Industry and business engagement including investment in space
• Explore career opportunities now and in the future
• Provide an overview of Space Applications and space environment basic principles
• Extended outline of space related terms including but not limited to the solar system, orbital environment, safety and sustainability in space operations
• Tools of ground-based observations of space, especially optical, radio and radar astronomy
• Discussing gravity, basic principles of spacecraft design, and rocketry
• Investigate practicalities of space missions – fuelling interplanetary travel
• Use of imaging and remote sensing technology