Clunies Ross award to John Ness of EM Solutions

Congratulations to John Ness of EM Solutions Pty Ltd, a member of the Antarctic Broadband consortium, on being awarded an Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering Clunies Ross Award last night in Brisbane.

The news was picked up in The Australian and The Courier Mail today making special mention of John’s work on Antarctic Broadband.

From The Australian:

Dr Ness confessed he had been ‘pretty surprised’ when he got the news that he was one of this year’s award winners for his work in microsatellites and telecommunications.

The work that caught the judges’ eyes was Dr Ness’ contribution to an international collaboration to build an affordable, near-real time broadband network for scientists and travellers in Antarctica.

With [over $2 million in] matching funds from the Federal Government’s Space Policy Unit, EM Solutions is collaborating with a Canadian microsatellites manufacturer and Canberra-based Aerospace Concepts. ‘Canada is providing the microsatellite bus and Australia the telecommunication payload and antenna’, Dr Ness said.

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Brisbane, 20 May 2011