“Mining Water on the Moon”

Professor Andrew Dempster
Director,  Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
UNSW Sydney

Date: Thursday, 21 August, 6.30–7.30 pm AEST
Venue: RSL Mittagong, Carrington Room
Entry: Members, $5; Non-members, $10 (cashless payments only)
All are welcome

Summary:  If humans are to establish a permanent presence in space, “pioneering” industries such as mining will help pave the way. One of the most obvious targets for mining in the early stages is water. In this lecture, we look at the hurdles that need to be overcome in order to mine water successfully — legal, regulatory, environmental, financial, business cases and technical. These are all areas of research where the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research has made contributions. The results of some of that research will be shared in the lecture. The problems are not insignificant.

Andrew Dempster is the  Director of the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He has a BE and MEngSc from UNSW and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in efficient circuits for signal processing arithmetic. He was a system engineer and project manager for the first GPS receiver developed in Australia in the late 80s, and has been involved in satellite navigation ever since. His current research interests are in satellite navigation receiver design and signal processing, areas where he has six patents, new location technologies, and space systems, especially those related to extracting water. He is leading the development of space engineering research at ACSER.

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