Satellite Transition 2008 Airservices Australia 2009 PMAA Results: Presidents Award Email the Support Office or call (02) 8288 8700 for media and project enquiries.

In 2008, Airservices Australia embarked on one of the largest operational logistical projects it had ever undertaken. A technical adjustment to 96 satellite dishes geographically dispersed across the country was critical to the continuity of air navigation services in Australian airspace. To execute these adjustments, 33 field technical teams (comprising 227 personnel) were formed, trained, rehearsed and dispatched. With some 64,260km of road travel (over 1.5 times the circumference of the earth) and many thousands of kilometres of air travel involved, Airservices Australia had the sentiment of Einstein's famous words firmly in front of mind: 'Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavours. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.' - Albert Einstein

The teams had just 12 days to complete the transition which yielded stories about the snow-covered mountains of Tasmania, to the searing 45- degree heat of the outback desert, to the two-metre floods covering the main road to Weipa in the North - all on the same day!

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