The $30-million Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC) at the University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory is a world-class facility for the design, manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing of ground-based and space-based instruments, and small satellites.

It includes the only space simulation facility in the southern hemisphere, the Wombat XL, which mimics the airlessness of space, as well as the dramatic temperature changes experienced by satellites moving in and out of the Earth’s shadow.

For more information visit the Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre page on the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics website.