CSIRO research in astronomy and space technologies includes space-based hardware and ground-based systems for spacecraft and satellites, and systems to interpret astronomical signals from space.

Six radio telescopes across Australia and New Zealand have joined forces to act as one giant telescope, linking up over a distance of 5500 km for the first time.

Using a CSIRO radio telescope, an international team of researchers has caught an enormous cloud of cosmic gas and dust in the process of collapsing in on itself – a discovery which could help solve one of astronomy’s enduring conundrums: ‘How do massive stars form?’

Coordinating and supporting CSIRO’s space research, industry engagement and outreach activities.

CSIRO develops, designs and builds antennas for applications in wireless communications networks, radio astronomy and imaging systems.

You want something impossibly smooth, round or flat? At the Australian Centre for Precision Optics we’ve been manufacturing with precision for more than fifty years.

CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) can design and build high-speed signal-processing systems, both digital and analogue, for radio telescopes.

In this vodcast, we examine the work of CSIRO's Australian Centre for Precision Optics (ACPO) in the development of super-sensitive light reflectors for NASA in the United States. (4:50)

Learn about CSIRO's development of self-repairing autonomous space vehicles in this video from SCOPE, a science TV show for kids produced by Network Ten Australia and CSIRO. (3:00)

Dr Miriam Baltuck is responsible for the operation of this Australian facility which tracks and communicates with NASA spacecraft.

Dr Tim Cornwell is a world-renowned imaging expert. He is a Senior Software Scientist within CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, and is working to ensure the success of CSIRO's Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope, ASKAP.

This edition of The CSIRO Times covers CSIRO's physics-based research, some of which featured at the 17th Biennial Australian Institute of Physics Congress. (4 pages)

Results from the fourth year of CSIRO's research program in wireless sensor networks are presented in this report. (87 pages)

Undertake a research project during the summer with a research scientist, engineer or outreach specialist at Australia's premier radio astronomy observatory.