A planned strategic update for Australia’s burgeoning space sector is in doubt with the new government yet to back the $9.5 million initiative announced nearly a year ago, adding...
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Canberra-based space-based communications outfit Skykraft has started the year with the successful launch of five Australian-designed and manufactured satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in...
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Sydney-based Av-Comm Space and Defence has won a $25 million contract to build and service four Radio Frequency Uplink subsystems for the rollout of the new Southern Positioning Augmentation...
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The Australian government has agreed to only a handful of the 38 space industry development recommendations it received a year ago, resisting calls to provide more specific funding to...
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AI robotics and navigation technology firm Advanced Navigation has raised $108 million in its series B funding round led by global investment firm KKR. The Australian company is eyeing...
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A land agreement between Native Title Holders, the CSIRO, and Western Australian and Commonwealth governments means construction of the international Square Kilometre Array telescope can get underway. The SKA...
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Western Australia’s space sector has hit another milestone with the opening of the state government-funded Space Automation, AI and Robotics Control Complex. Established and operated by Dutch geological data...
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The first South Australian-made satellite will launch aboard a SpaceX Transporter mission in October 2023 to begin its three-year mission with support from the state government and a consortium...
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The inclusion of Australia’s flagship space grants program in a “line-by-line” review of the former government’s spending commitments is drawing some concern among local industry and criticism from the...
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Sydney will host the 2025 International Aeronautical Congress, the world’s largest gathering of academics, industry, space agencies, and other stakeholders in the space sector. The successful bid was a...
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US defence giant Lockheed Martin will bring decimetre accuracy to satellite positioning in Australia and New Zealand after securing a $1.18 billion contract to deliver the South Hemisphere’s first...
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Australian space companies need to be either “full stack” or have additional terrestrial applications for their products to attract the market’s shrinking venture capital, according to Main Sequence Ventures...
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Australia needs its own sovereign primes in the space sector to boost the nation’s manufacturing capability and build resilience into the local economy, Gilmour Space Technologies chief executive Adam...
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Highlighting the challenges created by the rapid increase in the use of the the low-Earth orbit region, a report from Flinders University has called on domestic governments to give...