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CSIRO was the first Australian organisation to start using the Internet [27] and was able to register the second-level domain csiro.au (as opposed to csiro.org.au or csiro.com.au). Guidelines were introduced in 1996 to regulate the use of the .au domain.
CSIRO currently operates four observatories as part of the ATNF. Three are in New South Wales near the towns of Parkes , Coonabarabran and Narrabri .The fourth telescope, the next generation Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia .
The CSIRO manages most of NASA's activities in Australia. In February 2010 CSIRO took over direct management of the site with the establishment of CASS (CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science). [ 2 ] Previous to this CDSCC had been managed by external sub-contractor organisations, such as Raytheon Australia from 2003–2010; [ 3 ] BAE Systems ...
Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness. The Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP), formerly known as the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), in Geelong, Victoria, Australia is a high security laboratory, run by the CSIRO for exotic animal disease diagnosis and research.
Parkes Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.It hosts Murriyang, the 64 m CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope also known as "The Dish", [1] along with two smaller radio telescopes.
The ASKAP radio telescope is a radio telescope array located at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in the Mid West region of Western Australia. The facility began as a technology demonstrator for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an internationally planned radio telescope which will be ...
NICTA (formerly named National ICT Australia Ltd) was Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence and is now known as CSIRO's Data61. The term "Centre of Excellence" is common marketing terminology used by some Australian government organisations for titles of science research groups. [ 1 ]
The CSIRO purchased the 340,000-hectare (840,000-acre) Boolardy Station for A$5.42 million in 2009, then a working cattle station. [2] [3] [4] Then called, the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory, it was founded by the CSIRO in 2009, near Boolardy, a former cattle station in Western Australia.