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Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | January 8, 2025

NASA Changes Course on its Mars Sample Return Program

NASA has announced a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program to maximise the chances of successfully bringing back…

Aeronautics & Aircraft

Aeronautics & Aircraft | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | December 19, 2024

Swedish Space Corporation Gets Satellite Launch Capability Funding

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for project establishment to create…

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…

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Communications

Communication

Communication | Featured Stories | Space Exploration | Technology | December 19, 2024

South Australia’s Myriota Gets $50 Million Funding Boost

South Australian telecommunications provider Myriota will use a AUD50 million funding injection to expand its Adelaide-based workforce, allowing it to…

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…

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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 | January 7, 2025

China Makes Satellite to Ground Station Transmission Speed Breakthrough

China has made a satellite to ground station transmission speed breakthrough after successfully conducting its first 100Gbps ultra-high-speed satellite-to-ground laser transmission…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Security | Space Exploration | January 6, 2025

Teledyne Space Imaging Awarded Payload Contract for ESA’s LISA Mission

UK imaging sensor manufacturer Teledyne Space Imaging has been awarded a payload contract for the CAS instrument on LISA, the…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | Security | Technology | January 6, 2025

Four Companies Win NASA Near Space Network Contracts

NASA has selected four companies to expand its Near Space Network’s commercial direct-to-Earth capabilities services. NASA says this is a…

Defence & Space Industry

Defence & Space Industry | Featured Stories | December 20, 2024

Nauru Switches On Starlink Community Gateway Internet Service

Nauru has inaugurated the Pacific’s first Starlink Community Gateway. Attendees at a December 16 inauguration ceremony witnessed a live demonstration…

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Podcast

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).