Australian groups promoting space development

• AMSAT Australia - AMSAT is a worldwide group of Amateur Radio Operators who share a common interest in building, launching and communicating with each other through non-commercial Amateur Radio satellites. AMSAT Australia represents the Australian body of this international organisation and provides various services for local Amateur Radio Operators interested in these areas.
• Australian International Space School - A.I.S.S. is an educational program which highlights Australia's role in Space science & astronomy (last updated on the 29th of April, 1998).
• Australian Space Research Institute - ASRI's goals are to develop and advance Australian space science and technology by conducting, encouraging and promoting research in the field of space science and technology.
• Australian Students Space Association - The Australian Students Space Association (ASSA) Inc. is a group dedicated to the promotion of all aspects of space to Australian youth. It is organised entirely by high school and university students who firmly believe in the role space has to play in the advancement of human life.
• BLUEsat University of NSW microsat - Their mission "To build a world-class, student-based centre of excellence at UNSW for the sustainable development of Human Resource, Technological, Business and Organisational capabilities for the Exploration and Development of space."
• Institute for Telecommunications Research - The Institute for Telecommunications Research (part of the University of South Australia) is one of Australia's leading communications research organisations, specialising in technology for digital wireless satellite and terrestrial communication.
• Mars Society - Their vision is to position Australia for a role in establishing a human presence on Mars.
• National Space Society of Australia - The National Space Society of Australia is the coming together of like-minded space enthusiasts who share a vision for the future in which there is an ambitious and vigorous space program leading to eventual space settlement.
• Orroral Valley Space Tracking Station - A site offering an Orroral Commemorative CD, containing over 1250 images, arranged in a series of slide shows.
• OZ Kidz Into Space - This Page was developed to supplement the web pages of the Australian Cooperative Research centre for Satellite Systems, which will launch the FedSat 1 satellite in 2001.
• Planetary Society - Australia - Prromoting education in planetary exploration and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
• Royal Aeronautical Society - A multidisciplinary profesional institution dedicated to teh global aerospace community.
• South Australian Space School - Students attending the space school participate in many hands-on activities such as rocket launching.
• Space Association of Australia - The Space Association of Australia Incorporated is a non-profit, non-political group of people who are keen to learn about, and share with others, the excitement of space exploration.
• Space Australia Message Board - An Australian forum area on space related issues, by the Melbourne Space Frontier Society.
• Space Plasma and Plasma Processing Group - The Helicon Double Layer Thruster is being developed in the Space Plasma and Plasma Processing Group (led by Professor Rod Boswell) of the Plasma Research Laboratory (Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering) at the Australian National University in Canberra (Australia). Dr Christine Charles has invented the world's first Helicon Double Layer Thruster or HDLT. This new propulsion concept has the potential to propel humans to Mars and beyond and greatly decrease the costs of maintaining satellites and spacecraft in their desired orbits.
• The Space Show (Australia) - The The Space Show is a one hour radio programme presented every Wednesday evening between 7 and 8 p.m. by Andrew Rennie for 88.3 Southern FM (Southern FM is a Melbourne radio station).
• Melbourne Space Frontier Society - Melbourne chapter of the The National Space Society of Australia
• University of Queensland Centre for Hypersonics - (Lowdown description) - The objectives of the Centre for Hypersonics are; to provide visible international leadership in the centre's areas of expertise, to maintain a high level of activity in both fundamental and applied research, to provide graduate and undergraduate training opportunities of the highest international standards and to play a pivotal role as collaborators in major international projects. Areas of expertise include the development of hypervelocity test facilities SCRAMjet propulsion (experiment, analysis and design) and Rocket flight testing.