Fleet Space’s new headquarters in Adelaide, Australia. Photo: Fleet Space

Fleet Space Technologies has opened a new global headquarters and satellite factory in Adelaide, Australia — a move the company says will enable the production of thousands of sensors and hundreds of satellites annually. 

The 5,300 square meter facility in Adelaide Airport’s Catalyst Park brings together supply chain, design, manufacturing, operations, engineering, and R&D into the same facility. In addition to satellites, it also supports manufacturing for geophysical sensors deployed to mining and resources sites for its ExoSphere service. 

This new factory comes alongside Fleet Space’s 10-year anniversary. Fleet Space operates Australia’s first Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. The company’s ExoSphere platform combines satellite connectivity, 3D subsurface data-acquisition, and AI to aid the discovery of critical minerals, and it’s used by some of the largest resource companies like Rio Tinto, Barrick, Gold Fields, and Maaden. 

Fleet Space is also expanding into off-world missions, taking its mineral exploration technologies to the Moon and Mars. It is deploying a lunar variant of its ExoSphere technology on Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 2 to the Moon. 

“Ten years ago, Fleet Space began the journey of building next-gen exploration technologies to accelerate the energy transition and support future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond,” said Fleet Space CEO and co-founder Flavia Tata Nardini. “Today we are proud to open our new global headquarters and space tech hyperfactory to scale our global platform ExoSphere to fuel the next leap in science, technology, and human exploration.”