Join us for the March 2021 meeting of the Space Association of Australia – all welcome!  Date: Monday, 22 March 2020 Time: 7:00 - 9:30 pm AEDT Venue: Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne How to find us:  The Golden Gate Hotel is on the north-western corner of the intersection of Clarendon and Coventry Streets in South Melbourne. Take the stairs up to level 1 - we'll be in the Coventry Room. Getting there: By car: Car parking is best in Coventry Street west of Clarendon Street. By tram: Route 12 (via Collins Street), Stop 127 (York Street, then walk south) or Stop 128 (Dorcas Street, then walk north). Meals available: Place your meal order in the Coventry Room and have it delivered to your table - the menu can be found here. We look forward to seeing you there! If you are unable to attend the meeting in person, please register here to join us remotely via Zoom or watch the live stream here on our YouTube channel:

Join us for the February 2021 meeting of the Space Association of Australia – all welcome!  Date: Monday, 22 February 2020 Time: 8:00 - 9:30 pm AEDT Venue: Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne How to find us:  The Golden Gate Hotel is on the north-western corner of the intersection of Clarendon and Coventry Streets in South Melbourne. Take the stairs or lift up to level 1 - we'll be in the Coventry Room. Getting there: By car: Car parking is best in Coventry Street west of Clarendon Street. By tram: Route 12 (via Collins Street), Stop 127 (York Street, then walk south) or Stop 128 (Dorcas Street, then walk north). Meals available: Place your meal order in the Coventry Room and have it delivered to your table - the menu can be found here. We look forward to seeing you there! If you are unable to attend the meeting in person, please register here to join us remotely via Zoom or watch the live stream on our YouTube channel:

Notice of Annual General Meeting 2020 and 2021   The 2020 & 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of financial members of the Space Association of Australia Inc. (Registration No: A0000295B) will be held jointly on Monday, 22 February 2021 from 7:00 pm (AEDT) at the Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne.   The February Public Meeting will immediately follow the AGM.      

Join us on 25 January for the first meeting of the Space Association of Australia for 2021 – all welcome!  Our monthly public meetings are streamed online via Zoom and then uploaded to the SAA YouTube channel - SAA.TV Date: Monday, 25 January 2020 Time: 7:00 - 9:30 pm AEDT Venue: Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne How to find us:  The Golden Gate Hotel is on the north-western corner of the intersection of Clarendon and Coventry Streets in South Melbourne. Take the stairs or lift up to level 1 - we'll be in the Coventry Room. Getting there: By car: Car parking is best in Coventry Street west of Clarendon Street. By tram: Route 12 (via Collins Street), Stop 127 (York Street, then walk south) or Stop 128 (Dorcas Street, then walk north). Meals available: Place your meal order in the Coventry Room and have it delivered to your table - the menu can be found here. We look forward to seeing you there! If you are unable to attend the meeting in person, please register here to join us remotely via Zoom or watch the live stream on YouTube: Jus Ad Astra: A Pioneer Project in Space Law Launched in 2020 by WiseLaw, Jus Ad Astra is a legal project aimed at developing an authoritative international treatise clarifying the fundamental legal principles and human rights applicable to current and future human activities across outer space. This will be achieved in consultation and cooperation with prominent industry leaders, leading academics, and legal experts across the international space industry. This treatise will seek to culture, consolidate and promote a common understanding concerning the physiological, technical and legal challenges faced by extended human habitation in space. This will be conducted in consideration of the existing terrestrial international human rights law framework and existing international space law instruments. Jonathan Lim - Project Co-Lead is an Australian lawyer, geopolitical analyst, and cybersecurity analyst. He holds a Juris Doctor, Master of Legal Practice, Bachelor of Arts, and Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity from Monash University, the Australian National University, and RMIT University. His specialisation spans cyber warfare, cybersecurity, Chinese foreign policy, Australian foreign policy, and international space law.

Join us on 14 December for the final meeting of the Space Association of Australia for 2020 – an in-person social night – all welcome!    DATE: Monday, 14 December 2020 TIME: 7:00 - 9:30 pm VENUE: Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne HOW TO FIND US:  The Golden Gate Hotel is on the north-western corner of the intersection of Clarendon and Coventry Streets in South Melbourne. Take the stairs or lift up to level 1 - we'll be in the Coventry Room. GETTING THERE: By car: Car parking is best in Coventry Street west of Clarendon Street. By tram: Route 12 (via Collins Street), Stop 127 (York Street, then walk south) or Stop 128 (Dorcas Street, then walk north). MEALS AVAILABLE: Place your meal order in the Coventry Room and have it delivered to your table.  The Social Night is open to all members, non-members, friends and family.  For planning purposes, please register your attendance and how many will be in your party by clicking on either of the "Get Tickets" buttons at the top-right or bottom of the page. There is no charge to register, this just allows us to know how many to plan for. To plan your meal for the night, the menu can be found here.  Activities Silent Auction – Just for a bit of fun and maybe help you offload or pick up a space treasure, we propose to run a silent auction on the night. A silent auction is an auction held without an auctioneer. Items are set up on tables with a sheet of paper in front of them. On these sheets of paper, there is an item description, how much the item is worth, a starting bid (usually less than the retail price), and minimum bid increments. Bidders write their name, contact number and bid amount and, at 9 pm on the dot, all bids cease and the deals are done! We will limit to one item per person and it can be anything space-related. A book (signed/unsigned), a model, artifact, picture, souvenir, DVD/CD, T-shirt, etc. As neither the SAA nor the venue will be involved, we won't have credit card facilities and all transactions will be strictly cash (bring small notes and change). Please let us know by emailing spaceflight@space.asn.au if you plan to auction something and we will send you a bid sheet for you to print out and complete to bring along on the night. Show and Tell – If you'd like to bring something interesting or a unique space item along (but not sell!), and tell us a little about it, we would be delighted. This will be very informal and you can say as much or as little as you'd like, say three minutes? Or, you might want to talk about a book or film you've read or seen. Just let us know by email to spaceflight@space.asn.au. We look forward to seeing you there!

The Space Association of Australia has cancelled its regular face-to-face public meetings until December 2020. However, the space news never stops and so we are conducting our ninth virtual monthly meeting. To participate, simply register via the button below and you will be sent details about how to join the meeting. You can watch either via a web browser or by downloading the Zoom Meeting app to your computer or mobile device before the meeting starts. Have some headphones or speakers ready to go, and a microphone if you'd like to join in the conversation. You can also choose to have your video camera active or off. Date: Monday, 23 November 2020 Time: 19:30-21:30 AEDT (UTC+11) Draft agenda: 7:30 - Association business - 15 minutes 7:45 - Space news: SpaceX Crew-1 mission and Starship SN8 15K hop updates | Marcus House (TBC) - 20 minutes 8:05 - Necessity: The mother of invention? The relationship between management control and creativity: Lessons from Apollo 13 | Dr Basil Tucker, Senior Lecturer UniSA Business - 45 minutes (including Q&A) 8:50 - Russia's Crewed Mission to Mars | Igor Rozenberg, SAA Member and CEO at SpaceHansa Asia Pacific - 40 minutes (including Q&A) 9:30 - End Q&A: If you have questions you would like to ask our speakers before or during the meeting, you can do so on the Slido platform here: https://app.sli.do/event/fzxs7ih7  Please register here in advance to join this meeting:

The Space Association of Australia has cancelled its regular face-to-face public meetings until at least November 2020. However, the space news never stops and so we are conducting our eighth virtual monthly meeting, To participate, simply register via the button below and you will be sent details about how to join the meeting. You can watch either via a web browser or by downloading the Zoom Meeting app to your computer or mobile device before the meeting starts. Have some headphones or speakers ready to go, and a microphone if you'd like to join in the conversation. You can also choose to have your video camera active or off.   Date: Monday, 26 October 2020 Time: 19:30-21:30 AEDT (UTC+11) Draft agenda: 7:30 - Association business - 15 minutes 7:45 - Space News Update | Peter Aylward - 15 minutes 8:00 - Touch-And-Go: OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Mission at Asteroid Bennu | Clemens Unger, Australian OSIRIS-REx Ambassador for NASA Public Engagement - 30 minutes (including Q&A) 8:30 - The International Space Station at Twenty | Peter Aylward - 45 minutes (including Q&A) 9:30 - End Q&A: If you have questions you would like to ask our speakers before or during the meeting, you can do so on the Slido platform here: https://app.sli.do/event/xrwsemnl Please register in advance to join this meeting: The International Space Station Expedition 1 was the first long-duration stay on the International Space Station (ISS). The three-person crew stayed aboard the station for 136 days, from November 2000 to March 2001. It was the beginning of an uninterrupted human presence on the station which continues as of August 2020. Expedition 2, which also had three crew members, immediately followed Expedition 1. The official start of the expedition occurred when the crew docked to the station on 2 November 2000, aboard the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-31, which had launched two days earlier. During their mission, the Expedition 1 crew activated various systems onboard the station, unpacked equipment that had been delivered, and hosted three visiting Space Shuttle crews and two uncrewed Russian Progress resupply vehicles. The crew was very busy throughout the mission, which was declared a success. The three visiting Space Shuttles brought equipment, supplies, and key components of the space station. The first of these, STS-97, docked in early December 2000 and brought the first pair of large U.S. photovoltaic arrays, which increased the station's power capabilities fivefold. The second visiting shuttle mission was STS-98, which was docked in mid-February 2001 and delivered the US$1.4 billion research module Destiny, which increased the mass of the station beyond that of Mir for the first time. Mid-March 2001 saw the final shuttle visit of the expedition, STS-102, whose main purpose was to exchange the Expedition 1 crew with the next three-person long-duration crew, Expedition 2. The expedition ended when Discovery undocked from the station on 18 March 2001. The Expedition 1 crew consisted of an American commander and two Russians. The commander, Bill Shepherd, had been in space three times before, all on shuttle missions which lasted at most a week. The Russians, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei K. Krikalev, both had previous long-duration spaceflights on Mir, with Krikalev having spent over a full year in space.

The Space Association of Australia has cancelled its regular face-to-face public meetings until at least October 2020. However, the space news never stops and so we are conducting our seventh virtual monthly meeting, To participate, simply register via the button below and you will be sent details about how to join the meeting. You can watch either via a web browser or by downloading the Zoom Meeting app to your computer or mobile device before the meeting starts. Have some headphones or speakers ready to go, and a microphone if you'd like to join in the conversation. You can also choose to have your video camera active or off.   Date: Monday, 28 September 2020 Time: 19:30-21:30 AEST (UTC+10) Draft agenda: 7:30 - Association business - 15 minutes 7:45 - U.S. pre-election space policy preview | Peter Aylward - 15 minutes 8:00 - The Space Down Under | Josh Keegan in conversation with Nick Green, CEO of PFi Aerospace - 45 minutes (including Q&A) 8:45 - Spacefarers: How humans will settle the Moon, Mars and beyond | A conversation with the author, Christopher Wanjek, live from Baltimore - 45 minutes (including Q&A) 9:30 - End Q&A: If you have questions you would like to ask our speakers before or during the meeting, you can do so on the Slido platform here: https://app.sli.do/event/0h5ktcjv. For security reasons, please register in advance to join this meeting:   SPACEFARERS: A book giveaway for SAA members Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond is the latest book by health and science author, and former senior writer at NASA Goddard, Christopher Wanjek. The book takes a compelling look at the who, how, and why of near-future colonies in space. From bone-whittling microgravity to eye-popping profits, the risks and rewards of space settlement have never been so close at hand. More than fifty years after the Apollo 11 Moon landing, why is there so little human presence in space? Will we ever reach Mars? What will it take to become a multiplanet species, colonising the solar system and travelling to other stars? The Space Association of Australia is delighted to have Christopher join us live from his home in Baltimore, Maryland for our September 28 virtual meeting. SAA MEMBER-ONLY BONUS: We will have one copy of the book to give away on the night! This prize is available to all SAA members in Australia only — we will post to you. However, you will need to pre-register for the draw by 11:59 pm on Sunday, 27 September AEST. To enter the draw, simply click on the 'Get Tickets' button below and login to your membership account. Once complete, you’re in with a chance — good luck!

The Space Association of Australia has cancelled its regular face-to-face public meetings until at least September 2020. However, the space news never stops and so we are conducting our sixth virtual monthly meeting, To participate, simply register via the button below and you will be sent details about how to join the meeting. You can watch either via a web browser or by downloading the Zoom Meeting app to your computer or mobile device before the meeting starts. Have some headphones or speakers ready to go, and a microphone if you'd like to join in the conversation. You can also choose to have your video camera active or off. For security reasons, you will need to register in advance to join this meeting: Date: Monday, 24 August 2020 Time: 19:30-21:30 AEST (UTC+10) Draft agenda: 7:30 - Association business - 15 minutes 7:45 - Australian Space News | Peter Aylward - 15 minutes 8:00 - Space Industry Association of Australia overview | David Ball, Chair SIAA Board of Directors - 15 minutes 8:15 - SpaceX activity update | Marcus House - 45 minutes (including Q&A)           * Crew Dragon Demo-2 review           * Starship           * Starlink 9:00 - Global Space Roundup | Peter Aylward - 30 minutes 9:30 - End Q&A: If you have questions you would like to ask our speakers before or during the meeting, you can do so here: https://app.sli.do/event/smnbfpdq. Don't forget to register in advance to join this meeting:

The Space Association of Australia has cancelled its regular face-to-face public meetings until at least August 2020. However, the space news never stops and so we are conducting our fifth virtual monthly meeting, To participate, simply register via the button below and you will be sent details about how to join the meeting. You can watch either via a web browser or by downloading the Zoom Meeting app to your computer or mobile device before the meeting starts. Have some headphones or speakers ready to go and a microphone if you'd like to join in the conversation. You can also choose to have your video camera active or off. For security reasons, you will need to register in advance to join this meeting:   Date: Monday, 27 July 2020 Time: 19:30-21:30 AEST (UTC+10) Draft agenda: 7:30 - SAA business - 15 minutes 7:45 - small rockets, BIG FUTURE with Alex Linossier | Project Manager - Launch Campaigns, Southern Launch, Adelaide, South Australia + Q&A - 40 minutes Alex manages the launch campaigns of customers’ vehicles, from conceptual discussions right through to launch operations. He also manages other large projects at Southern Launch, and supports all engineering activities. Alex completed his Masters of Space Engineering at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany after completing his Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering at Monash University. 8:30 - Igor Rozenberg | Member - Space Asociation of Australia, Melbourne, Victoria - 30 minutes A Handshake on Orbit: Apollo Soyuz Test Project 45th anniversary + Q&A 9:00 - Julian Timmers | Member - Space Asociation of Australia, Perth, Western Australia - 20 minutes Join Julian recount his recent two-day "bucket list" tour to the Carnavon Space & Technology Museum in Western Australia + Q&A 9:30 - End   Q&A: If you have questions you would like to ask Alex, Igor or Julian before or during the meeting, you can do so here: https://app.sli.do/event/fn0zgt0k. Don't forget to register in advance to join this meeting:

The Space Association of Australia has cancelled its regular face-to-face public meetings until at least June 2020. However, the space news never stops and so we are conducting our fourth virtual monthly meeting. We did this for our March, April and May meetings and they were a huge success. To participate, simply register via the button below and you will be sent details about how to join the meeting. You can watch either via a web browser or by downloading the Zoom Meeting app to your computer or mobile device before the meeting starts. Have some headphones or speakers ready to go and a microphone if you'd like to join in the conversation. You can also choose to have your video camera active or off. For security reasons, you will need to register in advance to join this meeting.   Date: Monday, 22 June 2020 Time: 19:30-21:30 AEST (UTC+10) Draft agenda: 7:30 - SAA business - 15 minutes 7:45 - Dr Malcolm Davis - Senior Analyst in Defence Strategy and Capability at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), Canberra, Australia + Q&A - 60 minutes In February 2018, Dr Davis authored the ASPI Strategy report, Australia’s future in space, in which he championed the development of a sovereign space capability for Australia. Malcolm will outline the key propositions he put forward in that report, talk about what has been achieved during the intervening years and what he sees as the opportunities and challenges that still lie ahead. 8:45 - Dr Alice Gorman - Associate Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia - 20 minutes Dr Gorman is an internationally recognised leader in the emerging field of space archaeology. She is a faculty member of the International Space University's Southern Hemisphere Space Program in Adelaide and a member of the Advisory Council for the Space Industry Association of Australia. Alice has recently been appointed a Mentor to the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs Space4Women Network representing Australia and Oceania, a platform for promoting gender equality and gender empowerment in the space sector. 9:05 - Ms Vienna Tran - Medical Student in Space Medicine at the University of Adelaide, Australia - 15 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A Vienna is featured in this Australian Space Agency profile. Her Honours project, supervised by Associate Professor Gordon Cable and Professor Julie Hides, is lay-titled The Effects of Centrifugation on the Gluteal Muscles During 60-Day Bed Rest and involves analysing data from the Artificial Gravity Bed Rest study at the European Space Agency (AGBRESA). Vienna will discuss the study’s background, preliminary findings and implications for long-duration spaceflight. 9:30 - End Q&A: If you have questions you would like to ask Malcolm, Alice or Vienna before or during the meeting, you can do so here: https://app.sli.do/event/hgdhrw2c.

Demo-2 Crew Dragon Launch Take 2! American astronauts will once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 05:22 am AEST (UTC+10) on Sunday, 31 May from Launch Complex 39A in Florida. The Demo-2 mission is set for an extended stay at the space station although the specific duration of the mission is yet to be determined. The idea of the Demo-2 Zoom Party is for participants to come in and out and talk about what they are watching: NASA TV, SpaceX live stream, Spaceflightnow etc. If someone finds something unique and good quality, they can share their desktop. If the quality is good we can stay with it, if not we can all watch our own streams and be chatting about the progress. To participate, simply register via the link below and you will be sent details about how to join the party. You can watch either via a web browser or by downloading the Zoom Meeting app to your computer or mobile device before the meeting starts. Have some headphones or speakers ready to go and a microphone if you'd like to join in the conversation. You can also choose to have your video camera active or off.   Date: Sunday, 31 May 2020 Time: 01:00-07:00 AEST (UTC+10) Countdown timeline below Join anytime, stay as long as you like and talk space with us as we watch history in the making. For security reasons, you will need to register in advance to join this meeting. Simply follow this REGISTRATION link, then enter your name and email address. After registering, you will receive confirmation and information about joining the party. ============================================================================ SpaceX Demo-2 Countdown Timeline Hour/Min/Sec Events -04:00:00 Crew suit up ~ 1:20 am AEST  -03:00:00 Crew transport to Pad 39A ~ 2:20 am AEST -00:45:00 SpaceX Launch Director verifies go for propellant load - 4:37 am AEST -00:42:00 Crew access arm retracts -00:37:00 Dragon launch escape system is armed -00:35:00 RP-1 (rocket grade kerosene) loading begins -00:35:00 1st stage LOX (liquid oxygen) loading begins -00:16:00 2nd stage LOX loading begins -00:07:00 Falcon 9 begins engine chill prior to launch -00:05:00 Dragon transitions to internal power -00:01:00 Command flight computer to begin final prelaunch checks -00:01:00 Propellant tank pressurization to flight pressure begins -00:00:45 SpaceX Launch Director verifies go for launch -00:00:03 Engine controller commands engine ignition sequence to start -00:00:00 Falcon 9 liftoff - 5:22 am AEST +00:00:58 Max Q (moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket) +00:02:30 1st stage main engine cutoff (MECO) +00:02:34 1st and 2nd stages separate +00:02:36 2nd stage engine starts +00:07:12 1st stage entry burn +00:08:43 2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-1) +00:08:45 1st stage entry burn +00:09:09 1st stage landing +00:12:02 Crew Dragon separates from 2nd stage +00:12:48 Dragon nosecone open sequence begins

American astronauts will once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 6:33 am AEST on Thursday, 28 May from Launch Complex 39A in Florida. The Demo-2 mission is set for an extended stay at the space station although the specific duration of the mission is yet to be determined. The idea of the Demo-2 Zoom Party is for participants to come in and out and talk about what they are watching: NASA TV, SpaceX live stream, Spaceflightnow etc. If someone finds something unique and good quality, they can share their desktop. If the quality is good we can stay with it, if not we can all watch our own streams and be chatting about the progress. To participate, simply register via the link below and you will be sent details about how to join the party. You can watch either via a web browser or by downloading the Zoom Meeting app to your computer or mobile device before the meeting starts. Have some headphones or speakers ready to go and a microphone if you'd like to join in the conversation. You can also choose to have your video camera active or off.   Date: Thursday, 28 May 2020 Time: 02:00-08:00 AEST (UTC+10) Countdown timeline below Join anytime, stay as long as you like and talk space with us as we watch history being made. For security reasons, you will need to register in advance to join this meeting. Simply follow this REGISTRATION link, then enter your name and email address. After registering, you will receive confirmation and information about joining the meeting. ============================================================================ SpaceX Demo-2 Countdown Timeline Hour/Min/Sec Events -04:00:00 Crew suit up ~ 02:30 am AEST  -03:00:00 Crew transport to Pad 39A ~ 03:30 am AEST -00:45:00 SpaceX Launch Director verifies go for propellant load - 05:48 am AEST -00:42:00 Crew access arm retracts -00:37:00 Dragon launch escape system is armed -00:35:00 RP-1 (rocket grade kerosene) loading begins -00:35:00 1st stage LOX (liquid oxygen) loading begins -00:16:00 2nd stage LOX loading begins -00:07:00 Falcon 9 begins engine chill prior to launch -00:05:00 Dragon transitions to internal power -00:01:00 Command flight computer to begin final prelaunch checks -00:01:00 Propellant tank pressurization to flight pressure begins -00:00:45 SpaceX Launch Director verifies go for launch -00:00:03 Engine controller commands engine ignition sequence to start -00:00:00 Falcon 9 liftoff - 6:33 am AEST +00:00:58 Max Q (moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket) +00:02:30 1st stage main engine cutoff (MECO) +00:02:34 1st and 2nd stages separate +00:02:36 2nd stage engine starts +00:07:12 1st stage entry burn +00:08:43 2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-1) +00:08:45 1st stage entry burn +00:09:09 1st stage landing +00:12:02 Crew Dragon separates from 2nd stage +00:12:48 Dragon nosecone open sequence begins

The Space Association of Australia has cancelled its regular face-to-face public meetings until at least June. However, the space news never stops so we are conducting our third virtual monthly meeting. We did this for our March and April meetings and they were loads of fun. To participate, simply register via the link below and you will be sent details about how to join the meeting on Monday night. You can watch either via a web browser or download the Zoom Meeting app to your computer or mobile device before the meeting starts. Have some headphones or speakers ready to go and a microphone if you'd like to ask questions. You can also choose to have your video camera active or off.   Date: Monday, 25 May 2020 Time: 19:30-21:30 AEST (UTC+10) Draft agenda: 7:30 - SAA business - 15 minutes 7:45 - Andrea Boyd Australian ISS Flight Operations Engineer at European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany + Q&A - 60 minutes Andrea will discuss her work, preparations for the Demo-2 crew arrival at the ISS, working through the coronavirus pandemic and more! 8:45 - SpaceX Demo-2 Preview - 15 minutes Demo-2 is scheduled to launch on Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 6:33 am (AEST), and will be the first crewed spaceflight to the International Space Station launched from United States soil since the final Space Shuttle mission in 2011. 9:00 - NASA's Human Landing System Review + discussion - 30 minutes NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency’s Artemis program. We'll take a look at these proposals and discuss their respective merits and shortcomings.  9:30 - End   For security reasons, you will need to register in advance to join this meeting. Simply follow this Registration link, then enter your name and email address. After registering, you will receive confirmation and information about joining the meeting. See you on Monday!

As previously announced, the Space Association of Australia has reluctantly cancelled our regular public meetings until at least June. However, the space news never stops so we are conducting our second virtual meeting! We did this for our March meeting and it was loads of fun. To watch, simply register on the link below and you will then be sent a link to join the meeting on Monday night, have some headphones or speakers ready to go and a microphone if you'd like to ask questions. You can watch via a web browser or download some software (Zoom). You'll be able to make comments and ask questions. If anyone misbehaves, you'll be kicked out. We suggest for those that are joining using your smartphones that you download the free Zoom app before the meeting. Those that are joining on their computer can just use their web browser. You can also choose to have your video camera active or off. Draft agenda: 19:30 - Welcome and introductions 19:45 - SAA news and activities 20:00 - Feature: Australia In Space  Adam Seedsman, Head of Strategy and Policy at the Australian Space Agency Adam Gilmour, CEO & Founder of Gilmour Space Andrew Uscinski, CEO & Co-founder of Valiant Space Herve Astier, CEO of Neumann Space Peter Williams, Sales Director at Southern Launch Each panelist will give a short overview of their operations and plans and then we will open up for a Q&A. 21:00 - NASA's Plan for Sustained Lunar Exploration and Development 21:30 - End Date: Monday, 27 April 2020 Time: 19:30-21:30 AEST You will need to register in advance to join this meeting. Simply follow this Registration link then enter your name and email address. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. See you on Monday!