Southern Cross Outback Observatories Project
Innovation in space debris detection and mitigation
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Southern Cross Outreach Observatory Project
Southern Cross Outback Observatories Project
IS NOW
Our Vision
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Space is getting congested. And with it comes an inherent problem of space debris, putting at risk the orbital space infrastructure the very fabric of our modern society is reliant upon. Uncontrolled, undetected, uncatalogued, and travelling at several kilometers per second, the 1-10 cm sized space debris in the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) numbers over a million and threatens the largest proportion of our orbital asset. And this threat is not going away any time soon unless a serious effort is made to develop newer technologies of detection and cataloguing at the highest level of precision enabling ground-based or orbital Active Debris Removal (ADR) at a massive scale. We believe a synchronized network of mobile observatories deployed over a vast area such as the Australian outback will be able to detect the faintest of the debris in LEO through a concerted sequence of detecting, tracing and tracking to achieve hyper-precision in the Two Line Elements of the debris enabling their removal from the orbit. Our patent-pending Trace, Track and Tackle sequence is a modern solution for the space debris problem which will be swift, cost-effective and reliable method of the removal of space debris at a massive scale.
Highlights
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Team
Meet the rockstar team of SCOOP
Founder & CEO
Muhammad Akbar Hussain
Muhammad Akbar Hussain built the first mobile astronomical observatory of Australia. Southern Cross Outback Observatories Project is his brain child. He came up with an idea to deploy a network of similar mobile observatories to solve the need for the mitigation of the lethal un-trackable debris in low earth orbit.
Akbar is a graduate in Astronomy from Swinburne University.
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Co-Founder & CTO
Muhammad Mehdi Hussain
Muhammad Mehdi Hussain is a serial technology entrepreneur. He has built technology startups in AI, big data, image processing, information security and financial technologies. He also runs Pakistan's largest space observatories in Karachi and Bela. He is currently the President of Karachi Astronomical Society as well. Mehdi holds Bachelors in Computer Engineering from NED University.
Co-Founder
Waqar Haider
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Waqar Haider has extensive experience in deep space astro imaging and telescopes. He also has professional experience in prototype designing, fabrication and CNC machining.
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Co-Founder
Muhammad Ayaz Hussain
Muhammad Ayaz Hussain is a doctoral candidate in the field of Control Systems, Robotics and Machine learning from Ruhr University Bochum. He has done his Masters in the field of Automation & Robotics from Technical University Dortmund and his Bachelors in Industrial Electronics from NED University. Currently he is working on an adaptive control system on an Upper Body Exo-Skeleton.
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