The original idea of the Southern Cross Outreach Observatory Project (SCOOP) was to build a test platform taking astronomy outreach to the regional and remote communities in Australia and push the limits of a possibility of doing it with an actual, purpose-built mobile astronomical observatory. The observatory was designed to be just the right size for the road, yet sturdy enough to travel huge distances across the sunburnt country. SkyShed POD was chosen for this purpose and

We are proud to announce winning of the prestigious Innovator of the Year title at the Australian Space Awards 2026 Our journey started from a humble beginning as a bold and innovative concept of taking astronomy to the communities with the use of a mobile astronomical observatory on June 18, 2016. Southern Cross Outreach Observatory Project (SCOOP) was built around our experience of public outreach astronomy with our Karachi Space Observatory (former Kastrodome) completed th

We are back in the ring for the Australian Space Awards 2026 as finalist. The Southern Cross Outback Observatories Project (SCOOP) is proud to announce its nomination as a finalist in the 2026 Australian Space Awards in the categories of Innovator of the Year and Space Situational Awareness Program of the Year. This recognition highlights SCOOP’s mission to advance a new generation of Australian-led space sustainability solutions through innovative, observatory-based detectio

Southern Cross Outback Observatories Project has received its first patent by the USPTO. This patent is related to our novel Trace,...

We are pleased to announce our nomination as finalist in the Australian Space Awards 2025 across two categories: 1. Finalist - Space...

Our presentation on our patent-pending Trace, Track and Tackle sequence for space debris detection and mitigation using a network of...

Our patent-pending Trace, Track and Tackle sequence to detect and mitigate space debris starts with the primary detection of uncatalogued...

Testing of the new OTA for prototype observations of the resident space objects. Combined footage from 45min of observations between 1918...

We are humbled and proud to be nominated again as a Finalist in the Innovator of the Year - company and individual categories - for the...

Our Trace, Track and Tackle model for optical detection, characterization and mitigation of space-debris in LEO (including ADR with...

Southern Cross Outreach Observatory Project (SCOOP) was designed and built as Australia's first purpose-built mobile observatory in 2016....

Southern Cross Outback Observatories Project (SCOOP) is proud to contribute to the Australian space industry and we are humbled by its...

We are proud to secure Australian Export Development Grant to promote SCOOP and its patent-pending space debris detection and mitigation...

The Southern Cross Outback Observatories Project (SCOOP) is an envisioned network of mobile observatories. It emerges from our experience...

20th August 2022 Welcome to our new website. https://www.scoop.net.au/

26th March 2022 This was our first entry into the prestigious Australian Space Awards and, though we didn't bring the crystal trophy...

19th March 2022 Website for SCOOP is launched. It is currently under construction and will be up and running pretty soon....

3rd March 2022 Southern Cross Outreach Observatory Project has been nominated as a finalist for the Australian Space Awards 2022 in...

SCOOP is going international. We now have a chance to present to the world the extreme usefulness of the concept of mobile observatories...

3rd December 2021 Honourable mention of Southern Cross Outreach Observatory Project (SCOOP) and our proposal of establishing a network of...