The State Space Agency of Ukraine has highlighted the Curtin air base in the Kimberley, near the town of Derby, as a potential site for a launch facility.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has launched a ‘temporary embassy’ in Tallinn, Estonia, that will facilitate Australian participation in the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.

It’s clear that the federal Government has thrown in the towel on advancing cybersecurity. Its opaque approach to encryption is unsettling and will undermine its cyber 
security strategy.

Opening speakers at the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) conference yesterday were optimistic with the progress government has made on the cyber front.

ASPI has released a new report into Australia’s offensive cyber capabilities, looking to dispel some of the myths around what this warfighting domain looks like.

Space and military law experts from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have joined forces to understand how international laws will be applied in times of armed conflict in outer space.

Luxembourg-based Kleos Space is creating its first wholly owned subsidiary abroad in Australia.

Honeywell has introduced its new Aspire 150 and Aspire 350 satellite communications systems, which aim to provide civilian and military jet, airline and helicopter operators with better connectivity through the Iridium satellite constellation.

Boeing has invested in Adelaide-based Myriota, an Internet of Things (IoT) start-up seeking to revolutionise satellite communications by providing low-cost access to high-value data in remote locations.

Space 2.0 emphasises commercial space enterprises as leaders and exploits new technologies that deliver low costs and high returns in good time.

Reaching orbit on a second test flight is significant on its own, but successfully deploying customer payloads so early in a new rocket program is almost unprecedented.

The Electron is designed to carry payloads of up to 150 kilograms to the 500 kilometre sun-synchronous orbit favoured by the high-growth constellation-satellite market.

Buccaneer will help calibrate Australia’s groundbreaking Jindalee over the horizon radar as well as provide crucial data on predicting orbits of space objects including space “junk”.

A number of growing, new commercial activities, which do not yet generate significant revenue, are attracting investment.

The review has commissioned three major reports in to the Australian and global space industries, received more than 160 submissions totalling more than 1200 pages.

Eighty per cent of respondents said their own employees were the greatest threat to data security.