Ted

Stapinski

FTSE

tstapins@bigpond.net.au

0438 882 645

Mr Stapinski, in his role as Managing Director, has led AUSPACE Limited to become one of the leading space companies in Australia. It has won seven international space contracts and is responsible for more than 50% of Australia's sales of space hardware and with good expectations of earning more valuable export dollars with their innovative Navigation Receiver using satellites. From 1981-85 Mr Stapinski was Project Manager for STARLAB) an international space telescope program and due to his leadership, Australia successfully completed the Phase B studies of the instrument Package. This work led to a resurgence of space activities in Australia which had lapsed since the 1960s. Mr Stapinski is a brilliant electronic and computer engineer and was responsible for the development of a super-sensitive 2D light detector and the design of a novel computer system for the control of telescopes.

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