The Australia Telescope National Facility is a Division of CSIRO that operates and develops the Australia Telescope as a national research facility.

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.

Two CSIRO scientists have been honoured at Australia’s premier science awards – the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science.

Polymers make up many parts of our modern life; from the scent in laundry detergents, to coatings on houses, to key aspects in electronics, to new and improved medical therapies.

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.

A radio telescope’s ‘receivers’ capture the faint radio signals from objects in space, receiving specific frequencies and amplifying them up to a million-fold. Using expertise built up over decades, CSIRO creates world-class receivers for its own telescopes and others.

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

Dr Roger Netterfield, Senior Principal Research Scientist with the Australian Centre for Precision Optics, is a pioneer of optical thin films and is internationally renowned for developing narrow band Fabry Perot optical filters using air spaced interferometers and etalons.
 

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.

Detailed information about the CSIRO-designed FLECK™ platform.