May 2019
Growing Australia’s space industry
... satellites, businesses being able to provide components for new space infrastructure developed overseas, as well as our researchers working together on new technologies such as laser communications. Our goal is to triple the size of the local space...
October 2019
Making the most of Blockchain in space
... size. If we want to push further out into space and continue to create new markets and build valuable economies, we must embrace and leverage new technologies from a variety of sectors such as biotech, artificial intelligence (AI) and, yes, finance...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... a suborbital flight or about US$60,000, which is about 1000 times less than the cost today. Because advanced new technology is not needed, operational prototypes of a Spacecab-type vehicle could be flying in about seven years. It would take about...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... quantum key encryption and miniaturised propulsion advances for cubesats. The next steps will be to leverage these new technologies in spacecraft for use beyond Earth orbit, expanding the commercial remote sensing market to the Moon, Mars...
January 2021
What it takes to be a space entrepreneur
... from a designated orbital slot. But every once in a while you have a revolution; you have a brand-new technology. An iPhone is a brand-new technology. XM Radio was an example of that, where it was only AM and FM before. It was disruptive. People use...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... community would in turn be a testing ground for new technologies - for construction, recycling, local manufacturing and food production...mainstream society. The trick seems to be to identify new technologies which are just at the point where they are...
