The University of South Queensland-based iLAuNCH Trailblazer, together with partners Optus, HEO, Inovor Technologies and Defence’s Science and Technology Group (DSTG), have announced plans to build, launch and operate a sovereign Australian Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. This collaboration represents…
The South Australian owned and manufactured microsatellite Kanyini has been launched successfully onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States. Communications have been established with the satellite so commissioning is now under way. Kanyini was one of 108 spacecraft deployed…
The South Australian government’s satellite, Kanyini, has achieved a key milestone with the successful completion of its Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) ahead of the satellite’s mid-2024 launch. The critical ESS testing was conducted at the National Space Test Facility at…
QuantX Labs has secured $750,000 funding for an innovative research project aimed at revolutionizing a secured Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) capability for defence applications. The project, titled “Quantum-Secured Time Transfer for Resilient PNT,” will receive support from Department of…
The University of Melbourne and the Italian Space Agency have successfully launched the SpIRIT nanosatellite mission, supported by the Australian Space Agency. The Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal nanosatellite (SpIRIT) was placed into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket…
The Australian SpIRIT research nanosatellite is set to blast off with SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission in November. The SpIRIT, or Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal, nanosatellite has arrived in California for Australia’s first research satellite launch in 21 years. The 11.5kg…
Adelaide-based Inovor Technologies has been selected for Lockheed Martin’s Mentor Protégé Program (MPP), becoming the third Australian Small-to-Medium Enterprise (SME) to do so. Inovor is a member of the team assembled by Lockheed Martin Australia for Joint Project 9102; the…
Adelaide-based SME Inovor technologies is preparing for a busy 2023 says CEO Dr Matt Tetlow. The company is teamed with Lockheed Martin Australia on Defence’s Military Satellite Communications program, Joint Project 9102, which should be decided this month or next,…
Two machine learning experts employed by Adelaide-based Inovor Technologies, Kenny See and Toby Lightheart have won the European Space Agency (ESA) ops-sat machine learning competition, the company has announced. This challenge saw Team Inovor competing from July to October, coming…
The Australian-designed SpIRIT satellite, the first selected for funding by the Australias Space Agency, has been booked with launch service provider ISISPACE to blast off on the Falcon 9 Transporter 8 rocket in April 2023. The Space Industry Responsive Intelligent…