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Events | Featured Stories | Technology | April 1, 2025

IAF Spring Meetings 2025 – Bringing Sustainability for Space and Earth to the Forefront

More than 300 participants gathered in Paris from 25 to 27 March 2025 for the IAF Spring Meetings. Throughout the…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Security | Space Exploration | April 1, 2025

AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge opens for undersea communications and autonomy

The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) is transforming the way breakthrough military solutions are delivered by rapidly translating innovative technologies…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | March 31, 2025

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for SpaceX Starship

NASA has awarded SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, a modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship…

Events

Events | Featured Stories | Technology | Videos | March 31, 2025

Airshow wraps bumper week at Avalon

The Avalon Australian International Airshow 2025 has wrapped today after six days, with a record industry attendance and strong public…

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Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | March 31, 2025

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for SpaceX Starship

NASA has awarded SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, a modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aegis Combat System Demonstrates Counter Hypersonic Capabilities

The USS Pinckney (DDG 91) has successfully completed Flight Test Other 40 (FTX-40), also known as Stellar Banshee, using Lockheed…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | March 24, 2025

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft Departs ISS This Week

After delivering more than 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other cargo to the orbiting laboratory…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Security | March 19, 2025

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore Return to Earth

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 completed the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday, splashing down…

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Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Communication | Information Systems | Space Exploration | February 28, 2025

ESA’s Gamma Ray Telescope Ends Observations

The European Space Agency’s gamma-ray telescope ends its observations today, February 28, 2025. During its 22 years in space, Integral…

Communication

Communication | Featured Stories | Information Systems | February 27, 2025

Prototyping Looms for Transcelestial’s Satellite Laser Communication Terminals

Singapore is taking a step towards revolutionising space communications technology with the prototyping of Transcelestial’s laser communication terminals to enable…

Communication

Quasar Demonstrates its Multibeam X-Band Array

Quasar has successfully demonstrated its multibeam X-band phased array for satellite communications and space domain awareness. This cutting-edge system, sponsored…

Communication

Communication | Information Systems | Space Exploration | Technology | January 29, 2025

Australian Researchers Detect Fast Radio Bursts and Other Space Phenomena

The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space like sand on…

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Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Events | Featured Stories | Military Technology | March 27, 2025

Defence Aviation Safety Authority and Australian Space Agency Sign MOU

The Defence Aviation Safety Authority and the Australian Space Agency signed a new memorandum of understanding on March 26 at…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Military Technology | March 25, 2025

Honeywell Inks F-35 Oxygen System Partnership with RFD Australia

Honeywell is partnering with RFD Australia Pty Ltd, part of Beaufort Group, to provide sustainment support for the Royal Australian…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Military Technology | Security | March 21, 2025

Frequentis C4i Partners With Lockheed Martin to Deliver Secure ADF Comms

Frequentis C4i is providing multi-domain communication systems for the Australia Defence Force’s (ADF) next-generation AIR6500 Joint Air Battle Management System.…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Military Technology | March 20, 2025

Embraer Returns to the Avalon Australian International Airshow 2025

Embraer will be at the Avalon Airshow from March 25 – 30, 2025, reinforcing its relevance and long-standing presence in…

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Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Security | Space Exploration | April 1, 2025

AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge opens for undersea communications and autonomy

The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) is transforming the way breakthrough military solutions are delivered by rapidly translating innovative technologies…

Defence & Space Industry

Astronaut Col. Mike Bloomfield speaking at Avalon Australia International Airshow 2025

We speak with astronaut Col. Mike Bloomfield (STS-86, 97, & 110) who took to the stage with Australian astronaut Katherine…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Events | Featured Stories | Technology | March 28, 2025

Newly appointed Space Industry CEO calls for National Space Taskforce

The Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA) newly appointed chief executive officer Dan Lloyd outlines the 2025-2026 Pre-Budget Submission made…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | March 28, 2025

Illicit On-Water Activity Disrupted by Starboard Maritime Intelligence

Satellite imaging software developed by Starboard Maritime Intelligence to monitor fishing activity can also severely disrupt illicit ship-to-ship transfers and…

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Space Exploration

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Security | Space Exploration | April 1, 2025

AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge opens for undersea communications and autonomy

The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) is transforming the way breakthrough military solutions are delivered by rapidly translating innovative technologies…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | March 31, 2025

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for SpaceX Starship

NASA has awarded SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, a modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship…

Defence & Space Industry

Astronaut Col. Mike Bloomfield speaking at Avalon Australia International Airshow 2025

We speak with astronaut Col. Mike Bloomfield (STS-86, 97, & 110) who took to the stage with Australian astronaut Katherine…

Space Exploration

Space Exploration | Technology | Videos | Virtual Reality | March 27, 2025

ANU Research Tackles Ancient Supermassive Black Hole

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according…

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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).

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Podcast

Podcast | July 21, 2022

Episode 331 – Broadband via Satellite – the technologies and trends

Jane Lo, Singapore Correspondent speaks with Christian Pateroux, CEO, and Founder of Singapore-based Kacific Broadband Satellites

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Podcast

Podcast | July 14, 2022

Episode 329 – Space Law and Cybersecurity

Jane Lo, Singapore Correspondent speaks with Dr. P.J. Blount, Lecturer in Law in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University.

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Podcast

Podcast | March 30, 2022

Episode 317 – The SKA Observatory – the next-generation radio astronomy

Dr. Sarah Pearce is Director of the SKA-Low Telescope, soon to be built in Western Australia as part of the $2bn international SKA Observatory.

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Astronaut Col. Mike Bloomfield speaking at Avalon Australia International Airshow 2025

Newly appointed Space Industry CEO calls for National Space Taskforce

Maritime Domain Awareness Series - Securing our seas: Innovations and challenges

Regional links for German Space Agency - Interview with Director-General

Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destination

Leveraging space technologies in the Philippines - Interview with Director-General of PhilSA

Maximising the Benefits of Space Technology for Sustainable Socio-economic Development

Space Traffic Management, debris and the 2024 YR4 asteroid

ESA and OSTIn sign a letter of intent to expand space sector collaboration

First Scottish woman and first to carry the Singapore flag into space

Delivering state-of-the-art satellite-based communication

PRIME-1 to launch with IM-2 to drill on the Lunar south pole

Chances of asteroid striking Earth nearly double

Space Medicine for Earthlings - Special Virtual Series - Episode 1

Dedicated STEM feed launches in Australia - opportunity to better fund space activities

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IAF Spring Meetings 2025 – Bringing Sustainability for Space and Earth to the Forefront

AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge opens for undersea communications and autonomy

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for SpaceX Starship

Airshow wraps bumper week at Avalon

Astronaut Col. Mike Bloomfield speaking at Avalon Australia International Airshow 2025

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