Posts tagged "satellites"

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.

The growing number of small satellites in orbit presents some challenges, such as interference with communication networks and the buildup of space junk.

By Andrew Dempster, UNSW

The first Australian-built satellites to be launched in 15 years recently took off from Cape Canaveral in Flori…