Posts tagged "space"

The Coalition will spend $2.5 million on space grants, but has yet to finalise eligibility requirements, which could exclude many startups.

Former space shuttle commander Pamela Melroy has joined the board of Australian satellite communications company Myriota.

Nine months after interviewing Barack Obama, Holly Ransom is preparing to disrupt the conference landscape with collaborative-focused s p a c e.

Australia’s space and machine learning industries have received a significant boost following the announcement of $35 million in funding from CSIRO.

Melissa de Zwart, University of Adelaide

For the past 20 years, Australia has attempted to stake its claim in the lucrative commercial sp…

Richard Branson says it could be just a matter of months before he embarks upon his first space trip.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has confessed that his ecommerce, cloud and publishing enterprises come second to — and fund — his “most important work”: space tourism and reusable rockets.

Adelaide-based nanosatellites startup Myriota has finalised a $US15 million ($19.4 million) Series A capital raise backed by Boeing and Blue Sky Ventures, continuing a wave of interest and investment in Aussie spacetech startups.

By Ben Thornber, University of Sydney

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled for launch on February 6, and the entire spac…

The entrepreneurs behind a plan to bring a crowdfunded “cat café” to Canberra have revealed they have encountered many “misconceptions” abo…

By Anthony Wicht, University of Sydney

Australia seems on the brink of embracing space in a coordinated manner, but how should we do it?
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By Sarah Keenihan, The Conversation

In front of a huge SpaceX multimedia slide presentation, the company’s founder Elon Musk said on Fr…