Focus: Australia

Viasat Inc. and Indigenous companies in Australia’s Northern Territory have opened a ground station facility in Alice Springs. The facility was built, project-managed, and owned by Indigenous companies, the Centre...

PlaneWave Instruments will build, install, and maintain a 700 mm Ritchey-Chrétien Optical Ground Station (OGS) telescope at the Australian National University‘s (ANU) Mount Stromlo Observatory, the company announced. ANU will...

York Space Systems is a subcontractor for LatConnect 60, and will manufacture its unique spacecraft platform for LatConnect 60’s small satellite constellation in development that will provide Earth Observation (EO)...

Myriota has raised $19.3 million in Series B funding led by Hostplus and Main Sequence Ventures, the Australian Internet of Things (IoT) nanosatellite connectivity company announced Monday. Additional investors include...

Viasat has announced a Strategic Alliance Agreement (SAA) signed with Blacktree Technology, an Australian-based communications systems design and integration company, in November 2019. The companies say the agreement will help...

Optus said it has successfully launched a 2300MHz and 3500MHz spectrum 5G dual-band production network through a partnership with Ericsson and Samsung, calling the network the world’s first. The dual-band...