Posts tagged "space"

Fleet Space Technologies has landed another mammoth round of funding, this time for $50 million in an oversubscribed Series C.

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 hub will be based at Sydney’s Tech Central — a precinct that Premier Gladys Berejiklian has previously compared to Silicon Valley.

Quasar Satellite Technologies will build space communications technology using an Australian-based team.

Each of the startups will receive $10,000 in funding and support from the South Australian government, with the international companies receiving the funds once they commit to relocating to South Australia.

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

The federal government has announced a $1.5 billion manufacturing plan and selected six priority areas for support.

Two South Australian companies are joining forces to launch Australia’s first space capable rocket from the outback next month.

Girl Geek Academy has acquired the She Flies trademark with the goal increasing gender equality in the drone, space and aviation sectors.

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

Dr James Waldie and Dr Gordon Cable founded Human Aerospace in Adelaide, South Australia to repurpose space-related technology for use on earth.