Questacon’s latest exhibition, Australia in Space, celebrates Australia’s contributions to the space industry. The exhibition aims to educate and inspire new generations to explore the technology that enables us to travel to outer space and plan space operations.
A component of the exhibition focuses on the use of satellite technology in space exploration, an area in which Australia has been notably involved (see Australia and the first Moon landing). This provided an exciting opportunity for AMSA to showcase distress beacon technology and how we use satellite technology to help with search and rescue.
Linda Berryman, Advisor Response Systems, was invited to contribute to the exhibition through her role at AMSA as a technical and policy advisor for distress alerting devices. In this role, Linda is responsible for managing Australia’s distress beacon register and overseeing the Australian standard for emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs), personal locator beacons (PLBs) and man overboard devices.
Linda says of her career: “I am very passionate and thoroughly enjoy my work helping stakeholders understand how distress alerting devices function. I’m also looking forward to contributing to the evolution of distress alerting devices.”
Asked what she is most excited about people seeing at the exhibition, Linda said: “The exhibition is fantastic and I recommend it to everyone, particularly children. It is an educational and interactive exhibition showcasing space, satellites and innovative technology using satellites. The interactive displays are so much fun, and you can take a selfie flying through space!”
The recently opened Australian Space Discovery Centre in Adelaide also has a twin display of Questacon’s Australia in Space exhibition.
The Australia in Space exhibition is available for all general admission ticket holders in Canberra until early 2022 and will then travel around Australia over the next five years.
See also:
https://www.questacon.edu.au/visiting/galleries/australia-in-space
https://www.industry.gov.au/australian-space-discovery-centre
https://www.industry.gov.au/news/australia-and-the-first-moon-landing