Head of Air Force Capability, Air Vice-Marshal Cath Roberts, and the Director General Air Defence and Space, Air Commodore Philip Gordon, have announced the next phase of the Australian M2 satellite mission.

Canberra-based space startup Infinity Avionics will expand its space camera solutions, now to develop high-resolution cameras for a range of space applications including earth observation, space-based space surveillance, and spacecraft monitoring.

Defence’s Space Domain Awareness roadmap has evolved since a Request for Proposals was issued to industry in the middle of 2020, and it now looks to deliver capability in a number of tranches under the overarching JP9360 program.

Kleos Space has secured $12.6m million from "new and existing institutional and sophisticated investors."

In-orbit inspection company HEO Robotics has raised a seed financing round to launch its HEO Inspect product and help scale its services.

The government has given regulatory approval for a commercial rocket launch to take place later this year from Southern Launch's newly licensed launch facility in South Australia.

Gilmour Space Technologies and Exolaunch have announced a series of agreements for small satellite launch, deployment and in-space transportation services.

Optus will lead a joint bid with Raytheon Australia and Thales Australia for the JP9102 Australia Defence Communication System program.

Lockheed Martin Australia has announced the successful integration of Clearbox Systems’ Foresight ESM software application as part of its bid for JP 9102.

The countdown has begun to the historic launch of Binar-1 - WA’s first homegrown spacecraft.

Pléiades Neo 4, the second satellite of Airbus' Pléiades Neo Earth observation constellation, was successfully launched by Arianespace’s European launcher Vega from French Guiana last night.

Airbus has announced that UGL will become the latest local partner to join the Airbus teaming arrangement in its bid to deliver next-generation military satcom capability to Australia under the JP9102 programme.

Elbit Systems of Australia is teaming up with universities to showcase new technologies to benefit emergency services, defence and homeland security through the Centre of Excellence in Melbourne.

Rocket Lab has announced it will launch the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand from Q4 2021.

Airbus has finished the integration of the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite – the third of its kind – which will now be shipped to Munich to undergo extensive environmental tests to prove its readiness for space.

Rocket Lab has opened a 12-day launch window to launch a research and development satellite to low Earth orbit from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand for the US Space Force.