Posts tagged "spacetech"

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

Richard Branson's successful space flight marks a milestone in the global sector. And Australian entrepreneurs are on the rocket ship.

Gilmour Space's $61 million raise proves the Aussie space tech scene is attracting interest — and investment. Here are seven key players.

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

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.

SpaceX’s most significant achievement has been lowering the launch costs that have limited many space activities to date.

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

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

Aussie space startup Fleet has sent its first two microsatellites into orbit, with the help of New Zealand space craft company Rocket Lab.