World Moon Bounce – Part 2 (Archives)
World Moon Bounce – 2009 Posted on June 27, 2012 by Robert Brand The Wireless Institute of Australia Magazine Article WMBD Below is some of the article on the Echoes of Apollo World Moon Bounce Day...
View ArticleJamesburg Visit (Archives)
Visiting Jamesburg Earth Station (USA) *** Retrieved from Archives *** Posted on June 12, 2012 by Robert Brand AT&T’s Jamesburg Dish Visit – by Robert Brand Jamesburg Visit In early June 2012 I...
View ArticleJamesburg For Sale (Archives)
Jamesburg Earth Station For Sale *** Retrieved from Archives *** Posted on May 19, 2012 by Robert Brand Robert Brand and Jamesburg Earth Station. It was about when I was 17 years old that I (Robert...
View ArticleWeather Balloon Success (Archives)
UpLift-2 Payload Recovered *** Retrieved from Archives *** Posted on September 29, 2012 by Robert Brand by Robert Brand As I mentioned previously I was flying a weather balloon on Sept 25th. I cannot...
View ArticleJamesburg Old Photos
Jamesburg Historic Photos I am have some background photos of Jamesburg Earth Station. My company, PlusComms, is still trying to but the site. We are working hard on financing at the moment so that we...
View ArticleTeam Stellar (Archive)
Team Stellar and The Google Lunar X Prize *** Retrieved from Archives *** Posted on September 8, 2012 by Robert Brand by Robert Brand Three years ago I had nothing to do with space other than Moon...
View ArticleWotzUp Update (Archives)
WotzUp Update *** Retrieved from Archives *** Published March 25th 2013 Team Stellar It is full steam ahead with a range of activities. The biggest one of all is the risk assessment of the navigation...
View ArticleAustralia Enters the Space Age – History
Australia’s WRESAT 1967 – History Weapons Research Establishment Project: WRESAT Not WotzUp, but a good bit of Australian History. Some Australian Space history for those interested. On 29 November...
View ArticleRobert Band at Spacefest IV 2012 (Archives)
Australia’s Space History at Spacefest IV *** Retrieved from Archives *** Posted on July 31, 2012 by Robert Brand. As many of you know that I have recently moved into the Space sector, but I am not...
View ArticleBalon Stellar Stratosfera 30Km
Jason & Robert to Fly Balloons (HAB) in Croatia. by Robert Brand As many will know, I am the Director of Spacecraft Communications, Navigation and Data for Team Stellar and Jason is Stellar’s...
View ArticleNASA Canberra Celebrations
NASA’s Canberra 70m Dish Celebrates 40 Years NASA Canberra has a great celebration last April 13th 2013. Jason and I went down to help in the celebrations and it was a great opportunity to get up close...
View ArticleApollo 11 visits Sydney
My photos of the Apollo 11 Crew. Nov 1st, 1969 by Robert Brand If you read my post about my involvement in Apollo 11 communications in Sydney, then you’d know that I could not miss the opportunity to...
View Article13th Australian Space Science Conference Pt1
Space Education by Robert Brand I was fortunate to present at the 13th Australian Space Science Conference at Sydney University a little over a week ago. The only unfortunate thing was a mix-up by...
View Article13th Australian Space Science Conference Pt2
Triple Play in the Space Sector by Robert Brand As I mentioned in the last post, I was fortunate to present at the 13th Australian Space Science Conference at Sydney University a little over a week...
View ArticleUpLift-1 in the Sydney Morning Herald (Archives)
Sydney’s very own space agency: Brand and son *** Recovered from the Archives *** This excerpt from the Sydney Morning Herald, January 16, 2012. UpLift-1 in the Sydney Morning Herald Ben Grubb Deputy...
View ArticleUSA – 2014 Dates for Your Diary
Spacefest VI and ISDC2014 Next year I have been asked to speak at Spacefest VI and I am hoping that I will also be speaking at ISDC2014, but no invitations yet. None the less here are some 2014 dates...
View ArticleJason Delivers 18 Lectures in 3 Days
Science Week at Albury, Australia 2013 I was delighted when the organisers of the Boarder Stargaze and Science Fair invited Jason and myself to deliver 18 x 30 minute talks over three days to both...
View ArticleSlingshot Effect
Also Free Return Trajectory I mentioned in a recent post on another website (Facebook) about the real issues about “slingshot Effect” and what it really was all about. The following is a short bit of...
View ArticleITAR and Australia – Not Happy!
The US ITAR Regulations and Australia My rant for the day about ITAR. Well, I am ranting about ITAR most days! It is a rather difficult situation where another country’s regulations are imposed on your...
View ArticleGLXP Terrestrial Milestone Prizes
Team Stellar GLXP Update Below is a page from the Team Stellar website. It is a story about teamwork and since I was very much involved, I have added the team story below. You can read this and more on...
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