NEWS RELEASE
June 18 2003
SA
markets a unique space education experience to the world
South Australia can
expect an influx of some of the brightest minds in physics, astronomy,
aeronautical engineering, law, science and information technology in 2004,
when postgraduate students and young professionals from around the world
settle in Adelaide for a nine-week specialist space industry education
program.
The prestigious International Space
University Summer Session Program will be held in SA from 27 June
2004 and it is expected to attract more than 100 graduate students and
about 100 space industry professionals, visiting scholars and
international experts to the State.
In the first stage of an international
marketing campaign for the program, SA’s three universities and joint
hosts for the summer session, UniSA, Flinders University and the
University of Adelaide, supported by Australian Major Events, the Adelaide
Convention and Tourism Authority and the City of Adelaide, will be
represented at this year’s program in June and July in Strasbourg,
France, home of the International Space University.
“Much like at the handover from host
city to host city for the Olympic Games, we will be promoting the virtues
of our State and the 2004 International Space University SSP vigorously at
this year’s program in Strasbourg,” executive officer of the
organising committee Nicole Cremer says.
“The successful staging of the Summer
Session in Adelaide will inject about $9 million into the state economy
and importantly will provide significant opportunities for Australian
researchers and students to network at the top end of the of space science
research industry.”
And promoters will be “selling” the
state on its special features.
Those attending the program will have
access to high-speed intranet and internet communications through the
city’s pioneering 3rd generation wireless communication
network along the North Terrace precinct. Established by the m.Net
Corporation, the technology allows students to share data and work
together on projects with wireless connectivity.
The successful launch last year of
Australia’s first national satellite for 35 years by the CRC for
Satellite Systems is now seeing high quality data such as space weather
measurements being received by the FedSat ground station at UniSA’s
Institute for Telecommunications Research at Mawson Lakes. Program
participants will have the opportunity to engage with this research
facility and other leading researchers from Adelaide and Flinders
Universities. They will also travel to Woomera where experimental sounding
rocket launches will be conducted in conjunction with the program.
SA won the right to host the professional
space education program last year after a three-year bidding process and
against tough competition from Canada.
Media contact: Michele Nardelli (08) 8302
0966 or 041 8823673
More information: Program Committee coordinator,
Michael Davis (08) 8205 5782 or 0419 170251.
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