Design and Entrepreneurship for the Space Industry

Overview

This unit aims to equip students with applied innovation skills to identify relevant needs and uses for space technology & research applications, considering global context.

Learning outcomes

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• Modern techniques in designing new space technology and research applications
• Students will choose a space technology/research application project from one or more of the following categories of space applications;
  • satellites 
  • spacecraft subsystems
  • robotics
  • Biochemical 
  • Microbiology
  • Space Exploration or Mining 
  • Communications
  • Data & Visualisation
  • Power & Propulsion
  • Earth Observation 
  • Global Positioning
  • Space Experimental platforms
  • Defence & Space Situational Awareness
  • Other applications 
• Exploration of ideas for space technology & research applications, brainstorming, background research.
• Use UN SDG’s as a framework to inspire uses (teams can select their own, or we can set a specific goal each year).
• Identification of the ethical and environmental considerations
• Talk to someone who has relevant industry sector knowledge e.g. source other department experts at Swinburne, etc.
• development of broad technical requirements needed by the project application selected.
• One technical requirement/component to prototype is selected by each team to continue to develop the broader technical system and understand use case with more depth user needs.
• Test idea with a relevant stakeholder/s related to application  (e.g. end use of whale migration, a marine biologist might be consulted to understand the use case requirements.
• development of prototype design for selected space technology/research application
• Interdisciplinary team skill training and development