Australia relies heavily on the U.S.-led WGS constellation for military satellite communications, such as the WGS-6 satellite above (which Australia financed), but wants to include commercial satcom ...

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Australian satellite images found objects that are possibly connected to the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing with 239 people on board March 8. "New and credible information has come to ...

Artist rendering of Australia’s JP9102 communications satellites. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — The Australian Department of Defence announced the cancellation of its JP9102 military satellite ...

The JP9102 tender will close in January 2022, candidates then will be narrowed in a downselect phase, and a contract could be awarded in the first half of 2023. Companies around the world are ...

On November 29, 1969, the first Australian satellite launched. It was called the Weapons Research Establishment Satellite. The satellite lifted off from the Woomera Test Range in south Australia. It ...

An analysis carried out by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra has demonstrated that a new satellite system could potentially improve how Australia's coastal and inland waterbodies are ...

The first Australian-built satellites to be launched in 15 years are set to take off this week from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Unlike the enormous satellites Australia uses for telecommunications, ...

The Elon Musk-fronted SpaceX has told an Australian parliamentary committee that it could begin to offer its Starlink broadband services to the nations external territories as early as 2022, while ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Brett Carter, Senior lecturer, RMIT University Iver ...

In recent days, many worrying bushfire maps have been circulating online, some appearing to suggest all of Australia is burning. I’ll explain how we use data collected by satellites to estimate how ...

Andrew Dempster is Director of the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research at UNSW. He manages one of the teams that developed the cubesats mentioned and will host the workshop mentioned. He ...