Seven space projects focused on improving defence surveillance capabilities will share more than $1 million in grant funding from the NSW state government, while two new seed projects share...
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The US space agency NASA has completed its first commercial space launch from Australia late on Sunday, the first of three rockets planned for launch from the Arnhem Space...
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South Australian conservation and environmental protection groups have maintained their opposition to Southern Launch’s proposed launch complex at Whalers Way, with a petition to be submitted to the state’s...
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Last Saturday, a two-seater SIAI-Marchetti S.211 jet took off from Essendon Fields Airport in Melbourne with an expert aerobatic pilot at the controls and a case full of scientific...
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South Australia’s innovation district Lot Fourteen has unveiled a landmark sculpture by local artist Sundari Carmody, one of several art installations commissioned for the area. ‘One: all that we...
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Four South Australian space companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the launch of a rocket and spacecraft carrying an interfaced electronic warfare payload. ATSpace, Inovor Technologies,...
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Gold Coast-based rocket manufacturer Gilmour Space Technologies has revealed long term plans to put Australian astronauts into space aboard crewed flights inside ten years. In that time, the company...
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Radiation shielding for South Australia-based Fleet Space Technologies’ Alpha satellites is being provided by Titomic, a Melbourne-based metal additive manufacturer. Announced on Friday, Titomic will work on the first...
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For the first time since 1995 NASA rockets will launch from Australia later this month in an attempt to investigate science phenomena only observable from the southern hemisphere. The...
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Six Australian space firms have shared in just under $5.5 million as part of the latest round of the federal government’s Moon to Mars Supply Chain Capability Improvement grants....
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Sydney-based in-space logistics startup Space Machines Company has partnered with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch its spacecraft next year. Space Machines Company’s (SMC) Optimus Orbital Transfer Vehicle will ride...
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Gilmour Space Technologies is one step closer to blast off after successfully completing tests on its brand new, 3D-printed Phoenix rocket engine. At the company’s test site in Toowoomba...
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A Canberra-based spacecraft simulator firm will work on a more than $1.5 million United Kingdom Ministry of Defence contact to support its satellite mission. Nominal Systems has partnered with...
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Queensland-based rocket company Gilmour Space Technologies has secured a $15 million deal to develop and launch satellites for the Department of Defence by mid-2023. Gilmour Space will develop a...