Posts tagged "Australian space industry"

The space sector needs workers from all different backgrounds and disciplines but is struggling to attract a diverse talent pool.

The mission, which will be known as Caravan-1, will be carrying multiple satellites and payloads into low Earth orbits.

The federal government announced $65 million more into the sector to get local technology ‘into space sooner’, and has told the national space agency to send an astronaut.

The family-run space startup set itself the high ambition of sending an Australian-made rocket into space in 2022.

Last week, three South Australian startups announced they are furthering their plans to support the international space industry.

Silentium Defence has secured a $3.2 million contract to advance and deploy its passive radar system for monitoring traffic in space.

The government has invested $11 million in the spacetech sector in a bid to help boost the economy after COVID-19. But, is that really enough?

Elon Musk's SpaceX project has created history — and the benefits for Australia's space industry could be out of this world.

Australia’s first space industry incubator, the Venture Catalyst Space program, has opened applications for its third intake and is looking to help international companies.

There are more than one million bits of space junk in Earth’s orbit, including working and broken satellites and bits of old rockets.

Aussie co-working space Stone & Chalk is broadening its horizons, opening a new spacetech hub in Adelaide and furthering the local industry.

Who gets to decide what can be launched into space? In Australia, it depends on regulations that are currently under review.