Solar System
This is the largest planet in our Solar System
What is Jupiter
First human to walk on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Australia became the ___ nation to establish a national space agency in 2018.
What is the 70th?
A transfer orbit used to move satellites from LEO to GEO.
What is a Hohmann Transfer Orbit?
This is the nearest star system to Earth after the Sun.
What is Alpha Centauri?
This planet is famous for its rings
What is Saturn
This spacecraft carried humans to the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
What is the Apollo Program?
This South Australian range hosted the UK's first satellite launch and was once the world's largest overland rocket range.
What is Woomera?
The orbit approximately 36,000 km above Earth where communications satellites appear stationary.
What is Geostationary Orbit (GEO)?
The giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
What is Sagittarius A*?
This dwarf planet was demoted from full planet status in 2006
What is Pluto
The first artificial satellite launched into orbit in 1957.
What is Sputnik 1?
This NASA Deep Space Network station near Canberra is designated DSS-43 and supports lunar and interplanetary missions.
What is the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC)?
The orbit used by Starlink satellites.
What is Low Earth Orbit (LEO)?
This effect causes light from distant galaxies to shift toward longer wavelengths as the universe expands.
What is redshift?
This moon of Jupiter likely contains a subsurface ocean beneath an icy crust
What is Europa
This rover landed on Mars in 2021 and is collecting samples for possible return to Earth.
What is Perseverance?
Australia's first satellite, launched in 1967.
What is WRESAT?
This orbital perturbation, caused by Earth's equatorial bulge, is deliberately exploited by Sun-synchronous satellites.
What is nodal precession (J₂ perturbation)?
The remnant radiation from the Big Bang discovered accidentally by Penzias and Wilson in 1965.
What is the Cosmic Microwave Background?
This region beyond Neptune contains thousands of icy objects and includes Pluto
What is the Kuiper Belt
The furthest human-made object from Earth.
What is Voyager 1?
Australia provided tracking support for Apollo 11 through three facilities: Honeysuckle Creek, Parkes, and this third station.
What is the Tidbinbilla Tracking Station?
This point between Earth and the Sun, approximately 1.5 million km from Earth, is home to observatories such as JWST.
What is the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange Point?
This hypothetical energy form is thought to make up roughly 70% of the universe and drive its accelerating expansion.
What is dark energy?