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Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | December 17, 2024

ELO2 to Build Lunar Rover for the Australian Space Agency

ELO2 has been selected to design and build the nation’s first lunar rover for the Australian Space Agency. The ELO2 consortium consists of…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | December 17, 2024

CUAVA-2 Satellite Now Circling the Earth Every Hour

CUAVA, the Australian Research Training Centre for CubeSats, UAVs and their Applications led by the University of Sydney, says the…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | December 17, 2024

CUAVA-2 Satellite Now Circling the Earth Every Hour

CUAVA, the Australian Research Training Centre for CubeSats, UAVs and their Applications led by the University of Sydney, says the…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

NASA Sets Low Earth Orbit Goals and Objectives

NASA has released its final goals and objectives for low Earth orbit, defining the long-term approach toward advancing microgravity science,…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | December 16, 2024

SpaceX Wants to Incorporate Starbase as an Official Town

SpaceX is asking a Texas judge to incorporate its Starbase in Texas as an official town. Starbase, on the southern…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Space Machines Company Unveils Rapid-Response Spacecraft Variant

Space Machines Company has debuted a rapid-response spacecraft variant called Optimus Viper that is specifically designed to provide immediate, high-fidelity intelligence…

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Communications

Communication

Communication | Featured Stories | Information Systems | Technology | December 17, 2024

CSIRO to Demonstrate Water Monitoring and Forecasting System in Vietnam

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has launched a project in Vietnam to demonstrate AquaWatch Australia, a new water quality monitoring and…

Communication

Advanced Navigation Inks Another Multi-Million Deal With Rheinmetall

Positioning navigation company Advanced Navigation has finalised a multi-million deal with Rheinmetall Defence Australia to supply fibre-optic gyroscope inertial navigation systems for…

Communication

Communication | Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Security | December 12, 2024

Defence Looking for Space Domain Awareness Support

Australia’s Department of Defence will release an invitation to register, with the intent of down-selecting one or more respondents to…

Communication

Communication | Featured Stories | Information Systems | Technology | December 3, 2024

UniSA Researchers Develop GPS Alternative for Drone Navigation

A surge in GPS jamming attacks in drone warfare has inspired Australian researchers to develop a celestial navigation system that…

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Military Technology

Communication

Communication | Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Military Technology | November 18, 2024

Optus Launches Secret Military Communications Satellite

Optus is understood to have launched a secretive military communications satellite on Monday, October 18 (AEDST). A Space X Falcon…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Military Technology | November 4, 2024

North Korean Missile Goes Over 7,000 Kilometres Into Space

North Korean tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) called Hwasong-19 last week that reached an altitude of 7,687 kilometres. South…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Military Technology | Security | October 30, 2024

Orbit Communications Secures Satellite Communication Contract With a NATO Navy

Maritime and airborne SATCOM terminals provider Orbit Communication Systems has secured a USD3 million contract with a prominent European integrator…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Military Technology | Security | October 21, 2024

AUKUS Joint Standing Committee Holding Public Hearings

The Joint Standing Committee on Treaties will hold two public hearing this week for its inquiry into the Agreement among…

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Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Technology | December 16, 2024

ANT61 Inks Commercial Agreement with Japan’s Sompo Risk Management

Australian satellite hardware company ANT61 has signed its first commercial agreement with Japan’s Sompo Risk Management. The agreement marks a…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | December 13, 2024

US Space Supremacy Top of the Agenda for Jared Isaacman

Donald Trump’s nominee as NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, says the United States cannot come second in the global space…

Communication

Advanced Navigation Inks Another Multi-Million Deal With Rheinmetall

Positioning navigation company Advanced Navigation has finalised a multi-million deal with Rheinmetall Defence Australia to supply fibre-optic gyroscope inertial navigation systems for…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Technology | December 12, 2024

Fleet Space Technologies Closes $150 Million Series D Funding Round

Australian space exploration company Fleet Space Technologies has closed an AUD150 million Series D funding round, led by Teachers’ Venture…

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Podcast | August 2, 2022

Episode 333 – Links for Australia’s Space Industry

We speak with Daniel O’Toole, Senior Adviser for Space within the Sector Team for Defence, Space and Infrastructure at the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade).