Australia’s fire chiefs anticipate the next generation of space-based fire detection and extinction tools enabled by low-earth orbit satellites may hold the key to mitigating extreme remote wildfires. Extreme...
Space
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Two of the four companies behind plans to build Australian Space Park in Adelaide had already withdrawn from the joint venture when the South Australian government pulled its funding...
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The SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre has launched a three-year project to develop autonomous spacecraft technology in the hope of improving the effectiveness of satellite communications and earth observation. The...
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Australia’s local space sector is furious at the Albanese government for cancelling another space program, laying the blame squarely on Industry minister Ed Husic for axing a billion-dollar satellite...
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Moon to Mars Initiative Demonstrator Mission Grants worth around $40 million have been awarded to 10 projects led by Australian businesses and universities that aim to support NASA’s return...
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Industry players bidding to operate part of the Australian Space Park in Adelaide were notified of sweeping changes to the project on the same day that the South Australian...
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Plans to build the country’s first dedicated space manufacturing hub have hit a setback after the South Australian government pulled its share of funding from the $66 million project...
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Innovation ecosystem greybeard Professor Roy Green has launched himself into the space industry, taking a non-executive director’s role at SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre. Professor Green is well known among...
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European-built smallsats from Inmarsat will be used to deliver decimeter accuracy to satellite positioning in Australia and New Zealand through the multi-billion-dollar Southern Hemisphere Positioning Augmentation Network from 2027....
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Adelaide nanosatellite startup Fleet Space Technologies is now worth $350 million after raising $50 million in an oversubscribed series C, the company announced on Wednesday. Fleet said it will...
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Australia and the US have agreed in principle to a new space technology sharing agreement two years after negotiations began and just weeks after the Albanese government slashed $77...
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made a flying visit to the Gilmour Space Technologies factory floor on the Gold Coast as part of his government’s post-Budget media blitz. With...
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US defence giant Lockheed Martin has fought off Airbus, Boeing and Optus to secure a lucrative contract to deliver Australia’s first “sovereign-controlled” military satellite communication constellation. The Department of...
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Debates about the notional definition of sovereign capability has entered mainstream policy debates over the past two years. The impact that Covid and the economic crisis that it wrought...