Cyber + Space

Adelaide-based space industry-research centre SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre has announced a project agreement to further develop new Search and Rescue (SAR) beacon technologies with partner NASA.

Queensland rocket company Black Sky Aerospace (BSA) has successfully fired nine guided weapons from its Southern Queensland launch site, including a barrage of four units from the first of type launch POD system.

Queensland rocket company Black Sky Aerospace (BSA) has received approval to test guided weapons from its Southern Queensland launch site in what is believed to be the first ever such approval for a civilian operator.

Four South Australian companies are putting the final touches on the VS03 mission that will launch a rocket and state-of-the-art payloads to space from South Australia before the end of the year.

The formal partnership will deliver a prototype passive array radar system, which can locate and track satellites and space junk orbiting Earth.

Airbus reps have been talking space and JP9102 to federal politicians from all sides during the budget session of parliament.

Myriota has announced an agreement with ISILAUNCH to send its satellite 'Kanyini' into orbit.

Launched at Armidale Secondary College in New South Wales, the flagship STEM learning initiative will deliver school curricula designed to educate, upskill and inspire Australia’s future space workforce.

Equipmake has been selected by Gilmour Space Technologies to support its commercial space rocket program with the supply of advanced electric motors and inverters.

Two Queensland companies, space and defence rocket manufacturer Black Sky Aerospace (BSA) and digital security provider de.iterate have partnered to ensure the digital security of BSA’s guided weapons development program.

Hanwha Defense Australia (HDA) has signed MoUs with 4Zero Technologies, as well as with its own sister company Hanwha Systems, and built on the MoU already in place with Deakin University for future work on Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satcoms.

The Space Surveillance Telescope has achieved Initial Operational Capability to provide enhanced space domain awareness.

Southern Launch has become the first Australian commercial launch provider to sign a Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Sharing Agreement with the United States Space Command.

Airbus Defence and Space, together with Defence SA, has announced it will open a new office at the Defence and Space Landing Pad at Lot Fourteen in Adelaide.

HyperScout 2 will be launched into space on board the satellite Kanyini, a 6U CubeSat, as part of the SA Space Services Mission.

The Queensland Earth Observation Hub, a partnership between the Queensland Government and SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre, was launched on the weekend with the announcement of two new earth observation research projects.