CSIRO research in astronomy and space technologies includes space-based hardware and ground-based systems for spacecraft and satellites, and systems to interpret astronomical signals from space.

Scientists involved in CSIRO's Minerals Down Under Flagship are transferring technologies developed for space exploration and mining on the Moon and Mars, into new applications for the Australian mining industry.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of CSIRO's partnership with NASA in solar system exploration. From man taking his first steps on the moon to missions to the edge of the solar system, CSIRO and NASA have been working at the forefront of space science.

Coordinating and supporting CSIRO’s space research, industry engagement and outreach activities.

CSIRO develops, designs and builds antennas for applications in wireless communications networks, radio astronomy and imaging systems.

You want something impossibly smooth, round or flat? At the Australian Centre for Precision Optics we’ve been manufacturing with precision for more than fifty years.

A radio telescope’s ‘receivers’ capture the faint radio signals from objects in space, receiving specific frequencies and amplifying them up to a million-fold. Using expertise built up over decades, CSIRO creates world-class receivers for its own telescopes and others.

In this vodcast, we examine the work of CSIRO's Australian Centre for Precision Optics (ACPO) in the development of super-sensitive light reflectors for NASA in the United States. (4:50)

Learn about CSIRO's development of self-repairing autonomous space vehicles in this video from SCOPE, a science TV show for kids produced by Network Ten Australia and CSIRO. (3:00)

Dr Lewis Ball is Acting Chief of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science. CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) incoporates the Australia Telescope National Facility, a set of three radio observatories, and the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex, which CSIRO operates on behalf of NASA.

Dr Miriam Baltuck is responsible for the operation of this Australian facility which tracks and communicates with NASA spacecraft.

This edition of The CSIRO Times covers CSIRO's physics-based research, some of which featured at the 17th Biennial Australian Institute of Physics Congress. (4 pages)

Results from the fourth year of CSIRO's research program in wireless sensor networks are presented in this report. (87 pages)

Undertake a research project during the summer with a research scientist, engineer or outreach specialist at Australia's premier radio astronomy observatory.