Posts tagged "space tech"

A space technology company based in Canberra has locked in one of the largest startup funding deals in Australia this year, securing $120 million from investors to fuel its mission to disrupt air traffic management.

Tech that was once reserved for satellites and rockets is now being used to help the earth. Here are five startups using the celestial for the terrestrial.

Spiral Blue has launched two image processing computers into orbit aboard the maiden flight of Richard Branson’s satellite taxi service.

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.

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

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

The 16-year-old founders of Eutropia Aerospace have won Startup Victoria’s spacetech pitch night, for their reusable, hybrid rocket technology.