Mr Christopher Lowe
2012
Origin Foundation John Monash Scholar
SM (Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Autonomous vehicles, drones
MIT
United States of America
Maths and Science, Defence, Engineering
Guidance, navigation and control; autonomous spacecraft/aircraft; space operations; space systems engineering; orbital mechanics; human spaceflight; commercial space
Chris Lowe is an aerospace engineer currently working at SpaceX supporting the Dragon spacecraft flying astronauts and cargo to and from the International Space Station. He completed a Masters of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014, supported by the Origin Foundation. His research focused on integration of unmanned aircraft into civil airspace. He was an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force from 2005 to 2018 focusing on communications systems and unmanned aircraft systems, and was deployed to Kandahar in Afghanistan in 2011.
Interview answering questions from school children on space and engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuaplZoGymU