The US Air Force’s hypersonic test vehicle BOLT-1B has conducted a successful flight in northern Norway. It was launched from the Andoya Space Sub-Orbital launch site and reached an apogee of 154km. The term hypersonic refers to speeds greater than Mach 5,…
The University of Western Australia’s ‘TeraNet’, a network of optical ground stations specialising in high-speed space communications, has successfully received laser signals from a German satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This breakthrough paves the way for a 1,000-fold increase…
Heilbronn-based German rocket manufacturer HyImpulse has successfully conducted the maiden launch of its SR75 rocket from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range in South Australia in a milestone achievement for commercial launch capabilities in Australia. The single-stage SR75 rocket, which reached…
Southern Launch and the Koonibba Community Aboriginal Corporation will begin work on Australia’s first permanent commercial sub-orbital space launch facility after planning consent was granted for the Koonibba Test Range in country South Australia. “The development of permanent, world-class facilities…
German sensor company HENSOLDT will work with the Fraunhofer Institute to turn the GESTRA German Experimental Space Surveillance and Tracking Radar) technology demonstrator into a production ready, operationally deployable system called Custodian. To this end, HENSOLDT has acquired the necessary…
The University of Southern Queensland has been awarded a $1 million Australian Research Council (ARC) grant for a project led by the University into remote diagnostics for space-access flight testing. “Aerospace flight testing is essential for assessing the reliability of…