Canberra-based Skykraft has successfully completed a world-first trial of space-based VHF voice communications as part of its development of satellites to provide space-based aviation communications and surveillance services. This trial supports the work on operational space-based aviation VHF services leading…
Canberra-based Skykraft has launched another prototype Air Traffic Management satellite stack. The payload was put into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This is the second launch for 2023, and part…
Canberra-based Skykraft has launched the first five of what it plans will be a 200-strong constellation of Air Traffic Management (ATM) satellites. The launch, in early January 2023, sent the largest Australian-made payload into space: at approximately 300kg, this locally…
Brisbane start-up company Valiant Space, which has been supported by the Queensland Government’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub, is sending locally-made components into orbit, onboard SpaceX, from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. Valiant Space co-founder and CEO…
Canberra-based space services provider and satellite manufacturer Skykraft has won a $1.76 million grant to fund the upgrade of its proprietary Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) into a high fidelity and accurate pointing system. The upgraded ADCS will be…
Australia’s air traffic management provider, Airservices Australia, has partnered with space services company Skykraft to support the development of a space-based communication and surveillance air traffic management capability. Under the collaboration, Airservices will share its air navigation, technical engineering and…