Dr. Annie Handmer

Social theorist of space science 🚀 IAC 2025 🛰 #spaceshanty 🏴‍☠️ 🎶 Space Junk Podcast! 🎙 she/her 💗💜💙

[Dr. Annie Handmer @AnnieHandmer]

For all those who've been eagerly awaiting it, my thesis is now available through the University of Sydney's research repository via this link: https://t.co/E9pIWZUou1 @Sydney_Science

[Dr. Annie Handmer @AnnieHandmer]

@erfmufn @AstroKirsten @AstroBackyard @TerryLovejoy66 @BintelShop @ElementsofByron @Celestron @QHYCCD @SwarovskiOptik So excited!!!

[Dr. Annie Handmer @AnnieHandmer]

@atallhill G'day! I'm thriving, thanks!! Not sure on the podcast. Now I'm working full time in industry it's hard to make the time, but I'm sure I'll get back to it one day, just not yet.

I'm amazed that anyone still remembers it! 😀

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@JoelLisk Congratulations!!!

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@fringetracker @erfmufn @BintelShop @AstroBackyard @AstroKirsten @fringetracker count me in!

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@JessicaWestPhD Actually, most of it is just detailed explanations of why it's so hard to get the technology to work 😀 the governance stuff is only about 2 pages.

[Australian Space Agency @AusSpaceAgency]

Want to submit an abstract for the #IAC2024?

The Agency and @spaceindustryoz is offering three information sessions on how best to prepare.

The first session will be held virtually this Friday, 8 Dec at 6PM AEDT.

Register to attend: https://t.co/yoBhe3nm0h

[Dr. Annie Handmer @AnnieHandmer]

@brianweeden @NASA Congratulations!

[Australian Space Agency @AusSpaceAgency]

We’ve reached in-principle agreement with the United States on a Technology Safeguards Agreement.

Announced by @AlboMP & @POTUS on the sidelines of the G7, the TSA will allow for the transfer of US space technology, including rockets & satellites, to be launched from Australia.

[SpaceWatch.Global @SpaceWatchGL]

#SpaceCafePodcast Day by @mmooslechner - around the clock - 10/24
Annie Handmer – what’s up with the strange “object K” orbiting the earth in LEO? @AnnieHandmer @esa @NASA @DLR_SpaceAgency @spacegovuk @NirmaSuper @TKriening @timmermansr @AusSpaceAgency

https://t.co/QXWuh2XR93

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@KevinCastroR Omg it totally does!!

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Such a blast! A valuable opportunity to bring a discussion of workforce challenges, the complexities of dual use technology, and the connected issue of earning and maintaining social licence to operate to an international military audience. 🛰️

[Major General Greg Novak, AM @SpaceCommandAU]

How do we stay competitive in space innovation within Australia’s space sector? It was a great discussion at today’s CAF Symposium as we examined how governments and industry can work together to build Australia’s space power. @AnnieHandmer @tanyamonro @mattjpearson @Silentium_AU

[Daryn Radford @DarynRadford]

🚀Great to see some discussion on space from Defence and industry perspectives at the CAF Symposium 2023 yesterday moderated by @AnnieHandmer and with panelists; Commander @SpaceCommandAU, @CDS_Australia, James Palmer @Silentium_AU and @mattjpearson Fleet Space.

[Dr. Annie Handmer @AnnieHandmer]

@drwillcrowe Probably trying to!

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https://t.co/I36zs5PPZX

Big news to wake up to! But not unforeseeable. The increasing acquisition of commercial dual-use space services by governments raises precisely this kind of risk. It will be fascinating to see how this affects procurement and risk management in future.

[Dylan O'Donnell 🦋 @erfmufn]

The GREEN of the comet is *not* special. You can make it in your kitchen! Just suck all of the air out of the room, and burn your toast at 3,500degC until the carbon atoms bond unstably into deadly C2 gas. Follow me for more DIY home science tips!

[Dr. Annie Handmer @AnnieHandmer]

Thanks for the recommendations!!

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Podcast recommendations? I like long form interviews, history, and deep dive multi ep investigative / documentary style series. I don’t like true crime (unless it’s Lost in Larrimah which was excellent).

[Dr. Annie Handmer @AnnieHandmer]

People often ask if I’ve ‘used my PhD’ and the answer is yes, once, last month, to slide under a container and move a large spider from my living room to the garden. PhDs save lives, guys. 🕷️