Ed Kruzins

University of New South Wales • Professor

Ed Kruzins is Professor of Space Systems at UNSW Canberra Space, where he leads research on near Earth asteroids. He is a member of the National Council of Space Engineering, Honorary Fellow of CSIRO and Adj/Professor University of Adelaide. Ed was Director 2012-21 of the NASA/CSIRO Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex in Canberra, part of the Deep Space Network tracking international space missions, providing ground station capability for key space missions including Cassini, Huygens/Titan, Mars & Lunar Orbiter, Curiosity, Perseverance rovers and the Voyager 1, 2 spacecraft. He holds practical experience in ground station and spaceflight operations.

Ed began his working career with BAE/Matra/Marconi Space Systems building commercial satellites Olympus1, Inmarsat2, Telecom2 and Skynet4. With the European Union his team provided early study work on the Galileo navigation constellation. Ed is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and member of Standards Australia SV001 space standards working group.

Events

International Astronautical Congress 2025

29 September - 3 October 2025

Sydney, Australia

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