Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded the sole-source US$200 million ($295 million) Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) Site 2 contract by the US Space Force. The second site, located in the United Kingdom, is scheduled to be operational in June…
Sydney based Saber Astronautics has been awarded a $6.6 million Defence Innovation Hub contract to transform existing space telescopes into space traffic sensors, contributing to Space Domain Awareness (SDA). Following an initial $2.1m million Defence Innovation Hub contract in 2019…
Australian firm Quasar Satellite Technologies Pty Limited has been awarded a $5.3M Defence Innovation Hub contract to develop a multibeam phased array space communications ground station as well as enhanced space domain awareness. The company has also been shortlisted for the Avalon…
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…
Newcastle-based LeoLabs Australia, along with local industry partner CEM Alliance and sub-contractors, have completed construction of the company’s sixth S-Band Space Domain Awareness (SDA) radar site near Collie in WA. The company’s West Australian Space Radar (WASR) site hosts LeoLabs’…
Electro Optic Systems Pty Limited’s US subsidiary, EOS Defense Systems USA, Inc. has been awarded two contracts by the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Space Commerce. The first will provide commercial satellite laser ranging (SLR)…
The Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has teamed with Australian-owned company Nova Systems to prototype a new facility for Space Domain Awareness (SDA). The formal partnership will deliver a prototype passive array radar…
Silentium Defence has launched a new, world-first, category defining ‘observatory-in-a-box’ capability for improved Space Domain Awareness and Space Traffic Management globally. Designed and built in Australia, the deployable observatories combine Silentium’s powerful, full-field-of-view, MAVERICK S passive radar for detection and…
Defence, in collaboration with the United States Space Force (USSF), has achieved Initial Operational Capability of the WA-based Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) to provide greatly enhanced Space Domain Awareness (SDA). As announced at the 2012 Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN),…
The Catalyst Accelerator, sponsored by the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), US Space Force and ONE Dev LLC, is accepting applications from Australian and other international SMEs to take part in its tenth cohort. This is the first internationally…