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Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Technology | February 4, 2025

BIRD Aerosystems Secures Order for Missile Protection System

Defence tech company BIRD Aerosystems has received an order from an undisclosed customer to supply its Aeroshield missile protection system,…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | February 4, 2025

NASA Seeks VIPER Moon Rover Partnership Proposals

NASA is seeking partnership proposals from US companies to advance plans of securing a public/private partnership and land and operate…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | February 4, 2025

Cracks Emerge as Chinese Space Launches Miss 2024 Target

Chinese space launches hit an all-time high in 2024 but fell far short of the planned number. The country had…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Security | Technology | February 3, 2025

Australian Space Agency Announces $3.6 Million in Grants

The Australian Space Agency has awarded grants to five local space projects, helping them build their capabilities to deliver products…

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Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | February 4, 2025

NASA Seeks VIPER Moon Rover Partnership Proposals

NASA is seeking partnership proposals from US companies to advance plans of securing a public/private partnership and land and operate…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Security | Space Exploration | January 31, 2025

Donald Trump Wants ‘Abandoned’ Astronauts Home Sooner Rather Than Later

US President Donald Trump says he has asked SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to retrieve two astronauts stranded on the International…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Information Systems | Technology | January 30, 2025

NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients

Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that are…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | January 30, 2025

NASA Announces Axiom 4 Mission Crew

NASA and its international partners have announced the crew for Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space…

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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…

Communication

Exail’s Navigation Technology Plays a Role in Exercise La Perouse 25

Exercise La Perouse 25 is underway and providing a significant opportunity for Australian and international participants to observe Exail’s advanced…

Communication

Communication | Featured Stories | Security | Technology | January 23, 2025

Skykraft Commences 2025 With a New Navigation Partner Agreement

Skykraft has begun 2025 with a fresh participating project partner agreement for the Demonstration of Collaborative Position Navigation and Timing…

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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 | February 4, 2025

BIRD Aerosystems Secures Order for Missile Protection System

Defence tech company BIRD Aerosystems has received an order from an undisclosed customer to supply its Aeroshield missile protection system,…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | February 4, 2025

Cracks Emerge as Chinese Space Launches Miss 2024 Target

Chinese space launches hit an all-time high in 2024 but fell far short of the planned number. The country had…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Security | Technology | February 3, 2025

Australian Space Agency Announces $3.6 Million in Grants

The Australian Space Agency has awarded grants to five local space projects, helping them build their capabilities to deliver products…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | January 31, 2025

Space Still a Financial Drag for Boeing

US aerospace manufacturer Boeing has recorded an AUD19 billion loss for calendar 2024, helped in part by problems within its…

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Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | February 4, 2025

NASA Seeks VIPER Moon Rover Partnership Proposals

NASA is seeking partnership proposals from US companies to advance plans of securing a public/private partnership and land and operate…

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…

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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 | 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 | 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 | 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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