Proceedings of the 13th Australian Space Science Conference Sydney September 30

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Proceedings of the
13th Australian Space Science Conference
Sydney
September 30 - October 2, 2013
Australian Space Science Conference Series
1st Edition
Published in Australia in 2014 by
National Space Society of Australia Ltd
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Sydney NSW 2001
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ISBN 13: 978-0-9775740-7-0
Editors: Wayne Short and Iver Cairns
Distributed on DVD
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Preface to the Proceedings

A large number of the presenters at the conference later submitted completed written papers which
form the basis of this Conference Proceedings.
All papers published in these proceedings have been subject to a peer review process whereby a
scholarly judgement by at least two suitable individuals endorsed by the Program Committee
determined if the paper was suitable to be published. All papers not rejected were revised until
deemed suitable. Responsibility for the content of each paper lies with its author(s). The publisher
retains copyright over the text. Papers appear in the Conference Proceedings with the permission of
the authors.

The Editors would like to give special thanks to the Program Committee and those scholars who
participated in the peer review process:
Elais Aboutanios , Alen Alempijevic, Brad Alexander, Jeremy Bailey, Daniel Bayliss, Adrian Brown, Ian Bryce,
Graziella Caprarelli, Michael Chang, Manuel Cervera, Mazher Choudhury, Jong Chow, Michael Davis, Brett
Dahlhaus, Andrew Dempster, Boyin Ding, Brian Fraser, James Gilmore, Eamonn Glennon, Daniel Hernandez,
Jonathan Horner, Michael Ireland, Iwan Kelaiah, Barry Jones, Joseph Leach, Sarah Maddison, Tony Monger,
Marc Norman, Dennis Odijk, Carol Oliver, John Olsen, John Page, Karsten Peters, Ian Petersen, Robert
Pidgeon, Li Qiao, Chris Rizos, Lyle Roberts, Roy Sach, Murray Sciffer, Michael Smart, Mike Terkildsen, Matt
Tetlow, Bob Vincent, Malcolm Walter, Martin Westwell, Phil Wilkinson, Rob Wittenmyer, Falin Wu, Xiaofeng
Wu, Xianjie Zha and Xiyang Zhi.
Finally we would like to thank our sponsors (the Space Co-ordination Office, University of NSW
and the Australian Centre for Astrobiology) for their support in funding student participation and
the Organising Committee, Program Committee and colleagues Jeremy Bailey, Lucyna Kedziora-
Chudczer, Andrew Dempster and Chris Rizos for giving generously of their time and efforts.
We trust that you will find the 2013 Conference Proceedings enjoyable and informative.
Wayne Short and Iver Cairns
Editors, 13ASSC Conference Proceedings, May 2014
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Conference Background
The Australian Space Science Conference (ASSC) is the focus of scientific cooperation and discussion
in Australia on research relating to space. It is a peer reviewed forum for space scientists, engineers,
educators, and workers in Industry and Government.
The conference is of relevance to a very broad cross section of the space community, and therefore
generates an enlightening and timely exchange of ideas and perspectives. The scope of the conference
covers fundamental and applied research that that can be done from space and space-based platforms,
and includes the following:
• Space science, including space and atmospheric physics, remote sensing from space, planetary
sciences, astrobiology and life sciences, and space-based astronomy and astrophysics ;
• Space engineering, including communications, navigation, space operations, propulsion and
spacecraft design, testing, and implmentation ;
• Space industry ;
• Space archeology ;
• Current and future Australian space projects ;
• Government, International relations and law ;
• Education and outreach .

The 13th ASSC was held at the University of New South Wales (Kensington Campus) from
September 30 to October 2, 2013. The Conference was opened by Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research
of University of New South Wales (Research), Professor Mark Hoffman.
The conference included a comprehensive program of plenary talks and special sessions on the national
context for space the foci and programs of Australian Government units with interests in space,
and detailed descriptions and progress reports of research funded by the Australian Space Research
Program. In addition, the program contained a special planetary science session, with a strong
preponderance of projects involving the Mars Society of Australia. The program also ontained multiple
sessions of invited and contributed presentations, both oral and poster, on Propulsion, Planetary
Science, Earth Observation and GNSS, Space Capabilities, Space Physics, Space Technology, Space
Archeology, Education and Outreach and Indigenous Sky Knowledge.
Appendix A lists all abstracts accepted for presentation at the conference.
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The 13th ASSC was organised by the National Space Society of Australia (NSSA), the Academy of
Sciences National Committee for Space and Radio Science (NCSRS) and University of NSW. The
Mars Society Australia (MSA) and Australian Space Research Institute (ASRI) also helped significantly
with organising abstract submissions.
A call for papers was issued in March 2013 and researchers were invited to submit abstracts for
presentation at the conference. Following the conference itself, a call for written papers was issued
in October 2013: this invited presenters to submit a formal written paper for this Proceedings that
covered their conference presentations.
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Table of Contents
Preface to Proceedings page iii
Conference Background page iv
List of Proceedings Papers page vii
Welcome to the 13th Australian Space Science Conference page x
About the NSSA page xii
About the NCSRS page xiii
2013 Program Committee page xv
2013 Organising Committee page xvi
Conference Plenary Speakers page xvii
Program page xix
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List of Proceedings Papers
Authors Paper Title
Ali Haydar Goktogan,
Iwan Kelaiah, Salah Virtual Mars Yard Simulation System for Internet-Based pages 1- 10
Sukkarieh STEM Education
Thien Nguyen Finishing BLUEsat pages 11- 22
Eren Gorur, Ivan
Cheung, Tu Lesuma,
Treves Li, Cecily Zhu,
Richard McKenzie, Australian Space Policy: A Student Perspective pages 23- 40
Mathew Fenwick, Adam
Ingle, Timothy Gollan
and Jacob Hacker
Jonathan Horner, Robert
Wittenmyer, Tobias
Wobbling Ancient Binaries – Here Be Planets? pages 41 - 54
Hinse, Jonathan Marshall
and Alex Mustill
Elodie Thilliez , Lea
Jouvin , Sarah T. A dynamical test for the terrestrial planets in the habitable
pages 55- 68
Maddison and Jonathan zone of HD 204313
Horner
Planets in Spin-Orbit Misalignment and the Search for
Brett Addison pages 69 - 82
Stellar Companions
Jonathan Clarke Searching for life on early Mars: lessons from the Pilbara pages 83 - 96
Emily Bathgate, Graziella
Raman characterisation of the products of alteration of
Caprarelli,Linda Xiao,
volcanic rock minerals: preliminary results and implications pages 97 - 108
Ron Shimmon, Ross
for Martian studies
Pogson
Measurement Uncertainty in TRMM Observations of the pages 109 -
James Gilmore
Precipitation and Column Water Vapor Relationship 116
Jonathan Horner, Dave
pages 117 -
Waltham and F. Elliot The role of Jupiter in driving periodic climate change
128
Koch
David Herne, John
Ionospheric Phenomena and Low-frequency Radio pages 129 -
Kennewell, Mervyn
Astronomy 140
Lynch
Lewis Freeland, Fred
A Search for Signatures of Discrete Cosmic Radio Sources pages 141 -
Menk, Murray Sciffer,
Using an Imaging Riometer at Davis, Antarctica 148
Michael Terkildsen
Anne Unewisse, Andrew
pages 149 -
Cool, Andrew Kirby, Dan A New Relocatable Airglow Imager
160
Meehan
Naomi Altman, Sascha
Schediwy, John Expanding Australia’s contribution to the ACES and future pages 161 -
McFerran, Michael space missions 170
Tobar, and Andre Luiten
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List of Proceedings Papers
Authors Paper Title
Champlain Kenyi, Retrieval of greenhouse gas concentrations from
Jeremy Bailey, Daniel observations with a ground-based spectrometer in the pages 171- 182
Cotton near-infrared
Frequency Allocation for Satellite Space Stations
Tony Monger pages 183- 190
using Amateur Radio Bands
Mazher Choudhury,
Test Results of the Namuru Dual-GNSS Space-borne pages 191 -
Eamonn Glennon,
Receiver 204
Andrew Dempsterh
Eamonn Glennon,
Scott O’Brien, Joon
CubeSat-based GPS Reflectometry using the Namuru V3.2
Wayn Cheong, Kevin pages 205 -216
GPS Receiver
Parkinson, Andrew
Dempster
Li Qiao , Min Zhang ,
Attitude Control System (ACS) of UNSW QB50 project “UNSW pages 217 -
Barnaby Osborne and
EC0” 228
Andrew G Dempster
Liam Liyuan Li, Wei
Satellite Vibrations and Restoration of High Resolution pages 229 -
Zhang, Xiaojing Li and
Pushbroom Images 240
Linlin Ge
Tim Youtian Liu, Jicang
Phase Unwrapping for Interferometric Synthetic Aperture pages 241 -
Wu, Xiaojing Li and
Radar Technique 252
Linlin Ge
John Page, Haoyang
pages 253 -
Cheng, Monica Chi,
Swarm-Based Satellite Constellation Control 260
Nathan Kinkaid
Computational Analysis of Pintle Variation in an Expansion-
Kyll Schomberg, Graham pages 261 -
Deflection Nozzle
Doig and John Olsen 272
William Reid, Callum
A Highly Mobile Wheel-on-Leg Planetary Rover for use in a pages 273 -
McCarter, Ali Haydar
Mars Analogue Environment 282
Goktogan
Anthony Tompkins,
Development of a Low-Cost Vision-Based Localisation pages 283 -
Steven Potiris, Ali
System for the Experimental Mars Rover 294
Haydar Göktogan
Steven Potiris, Anthony
A Vision-based Autonomous Docking System of the
Tompkins, Ali Haydar pages 295 -306
Experimental Mars Rover
Göktogan
APPENDIX A 13ASSC: List of Presentations & Posters pages a - j
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Welcome to the 13th Australian Space Science Conference
and to the University of New South Wales! This will be the seventh ASSC jointly sponsored and
organised by the National Committee for Space Science (now renamed the National Committtee
for Space and Radio Science or NCSRS) and the National Space Society of Australia (NSSA). The
ASSC is intended to be the primary annual meeting for Australian research relating to space science.
It welcomes space scientists, engineers, educators, and workers in Industry and Government.
The conference was opened by Professor Mark Hoffman, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research at the
University of New South Wales.
The 13th ASSC has over 120 accepted abstracts across Australian space research, academia,
education, industry, and government.
We would like thank the Space Co-ordination Office, University of New South Wales and the
Australian Centre for Astrobiology for their sponsorship. Special thanks also go to the Australian
Space Research Institute (ASRI), Engineers Australia and Mars Society Australia (MSA) for their
support.
We look forward to an excellent meeting!
Iver Cairns Wayne Short
Co Chair ASSC 2013 Co Chair ASSC 2013
University of Sydney President, NSSA
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