https://spacewatch.global/tag/australian-space-agency/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:41:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/australian-space-agency/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2026/03/intuitive-machines-win-180-4m-nasa-clps-contract-for-lunar-payload-delivery/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=72319 Intuitive Machines has won a $180.4 million NASA contract to deliver seven science and technology payloads to the Lunar South Pole Region under the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. The contract award is Intuitive Machines’ fifth CLPS task order but the first to require a larger Nova-D lunar lander to deliver science and technology payloads and return valuable data, while operating autonomously on the lunar surface.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/10/esa-inaugurates-new-35-meter-diameter-antenna-in-australia-to-support-space-missions/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=68163 ESA has expanded its capability to communicate with Solar System missions with a new 35-m diameter deep space antenna. Located in New Norcia, about 115 km north of Perth, Western Australia, the ‘New Norcia 3’ antenna will help meet the agency’s fast-increasing data download needs and secure Europe’s independence and leadership in space.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/04/quantx-labs-to-launch-tempo-atomic-clock-technology-aboard-spacevan/ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=64968 QuantX Labs is partnering with Exotrail to launch a key component of its atomic clock technology, TEMPO, hosted on the spacevan™ vehicle. The Vehicle will subsequently launch on a SpaceX mission in December 2025 at the earliest.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/11/gilmour-receives-permit-for-maiden-eris-rocket-launch/ Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=62113 Gilmour Space Technologies has received Australia's first orbital launch permit from the Australian Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic MP, and the Australian Space Agency for its maiden Eris rocket launch from the Bowen Orbital Spaceport in north Queensland.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/07/siaa-establishes-iac25-consultation-working-group-iacc/ Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:00:15 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=56061 Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA) has established the IAC25 Consultation (IACC) working group, comprising Australian space leaders. The IACC aims to further the overall success of the 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2025), the International Astronautical Federation (IAF)’s premier global space event which will take place from 29 September to 3 October 2025 in Sydney, Australia. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/05/hyimpulse-sr75-1-suborbital-test-launch-on-live-from-southern-launchs-koonibba-test-range/ Thu, 02 May 2024 16:00:18 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=54999 The HyImpulse SR75-1 ‘Light this Candle!’ mission is currently scheduled to launch tomorrow, Friday 3 May at 2.30pm ACST from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. Additional launch windows have been identified over the weekend, should they be required. Manufactured in Germany, the SR75-1 rocket is a single stage, expendable, unguided vehicle designed and manufactured by HyImpulse.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/12/australia-to-host-76th-international-astronautical-congress/ Fri, 15 Dec 2023 07:00:43 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=52834 Sydney will host the 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) between the 29 September to 3 October in 2025. The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and the Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA), backed by the Australian Space Agency and the NSW Government, signed the agreement.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/10/spaarc-to-receive-additional-funding-from-wa-government/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=51895 Fugro's Space Automation, AI and Robotics Control Complex (SpAARC) in Perth, Western Australia (WA), is to receive an additional AUD 5 million in funding from the WA Government. Roger Cook, the WA Premier, made the announcement at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Perth on the morning of the opening of IPSEC 2023, Perth’s Indo-Pacific Space and Earth Conference for leaders in space and cross-sector technologies.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/08/heo-secures-12-million-aud-funding-led-by-airtree-ventures/ Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:00:15 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=50754 HEO, formerly known as HEO Robotics, has announced the successful completion of its Series A funding round, securing $12 million AUD in investment. Airtree Ventures, an Australian venture capital firm popular for its strategic investments in high-growth technology companies, led the round. Additional and returning investors include Salus VC, Y Combinator, In-Q-Tel, David Harding and Steve Baxter.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/07/fleet-space-awarded-a4m-demonstrator-program/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 06:00:44 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=49779 Fleet Space Technologies, an Australian space exploration firm, has been awarded a $4 million contract with the Australian Space Agency for its Moon to Mars: Demonstrator program.  ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/05/esas-astronaut-class-of-2022-first-news-conference/ Thu, 04 May 2023 06:00:36 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=48410 Today marks one month since ESA’s newly selected astronaut class of 2022 began their basic training in Cologne, Germany. ESA astronaut candidates Sophie Adenot, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Rosemary Coogan, Raphaël Liégeois and Marco Sieber took up duty at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) on 3 April 2023 to be trained to the highest level of standards as specified by the International Space Station partners. They are part of the 17-member astronaut class of 2022, selected from 22,500 applicants across ESA Member States. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/02/innovationaus-joins-international-space-communications-alliance/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 07:00:19 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=46752 InnovationAus has joined the Space Communications Alliance as an affiliate member. The Space Communications Alliance is a global network of communications organizations with a background and experience in telling the stories of the people, the technology and geopolitics driving the rapid development of the space industry. InnovationAus.com’s sister company Espresso Communications also joined the global network as a full member.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/09/government-and-smartsat-crc-invest-in-queensland-earth-observation-hub/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 06:00:15 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=43613 The Queensland Government and SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) have launched the Queensland Earth Observation (EO) Hub, a partnership for two new Earth observation research projects. The Government and SmartSat CRC are both investing about US $1 million in the project.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/08/two-south-australian-manufacturers-awarded-au-1-million-grant-to-enter-space/ Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:00:47 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=42607 Two South Australian companies, engineering and fabrication company Ferretti International, and family-owned manufacturing company Hydroil, will start manufacturing for the space industry after winning the contract to build and supply a mobile launch rail for Australian spaceport and space mission provider Southern Launch, the company said.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/06/south-australian-companies-collaborate-for-the-countrys-future-in-space/ Fri, 24 Jun 2022 06:00:32 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=41764 Leading South Australian space companies announced an exciting collaboration that will explore launching a rocket and a spacecraft with an interfaced electronic warfare payload from Southern Launch’s Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex.  Southern Launch, ATSpace Australia, Asension, and Inovor Technologies signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Adelaide.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/06/ela-and-nasa-to-conduct-australias-first-commercial-launch/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:00:55 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=41401 Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) the developer, owner and operator of the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) on the Gove Peninsula in Australia’s Northern Territory will be making Australia’s first commercial space launch on 26th June with its client, NASA, ELA said. The launch vehicle is a BBIX rocket that will carry an atmospheric ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/03/spacewatchgl-opinion-australia-needs-to-aim-high-with-space-strategic-update/ Sun, 20 Mar 2022 15:00:12 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=39973 As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and The Strategist, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles. This is “Australia needs to aim high with space strategic update” by Malcolm Davis, originally published on 11 March 2022. Last week at the 13th Australian Space Forum in Adelaide, the minister for science and technology, Melissa Price, ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/space-cafe-radio-review-2021-troy-mccann/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:00:14 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38209 In this Space Café Radio – our Review 2021 series, SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening spoke with Troy McCann, Entrepreneur, Space engineer, advisor, investor and founder and CEO of Moonshot Space in Sydney about his space highlights in 2021, what's up in Australia and what to watch out for the upcoming year in space.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/space-cafe-radio-review-2021-dr-malcolm-davis/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 09:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38184 https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/space-cafe-australia-by-annie-handmer-recap-troy-mccann-on-money-and-space/ Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:00:32 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=37999 In the latest episode of Space Café Australia by Annie Handmer, she catches up with Troy McCann, for a conversation on the two things that make the world go around: space, and money. Australia’s space economy is unique, characterised by a growing class of start-ups that target the ‘NewSpace’ economy. But despite a dedicated Space Agency committed to growing the space economy,]]>