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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

I’ll explain how we use data collected by satellites to estimate how much of an area is burning, or has already been burnt, and what this information should look like once it’s mapped. It’s similar to ...

The bushfire crisis isn’t limited to Australia—it’s coming for the entire Southern Hemisphere atmosphere, too. Australia has been ablaze for months with wildlife-killing, town-destroying, unstoppable ...

The Australian space and satellite sector has urged for the Australian government to introduce policies and regulations to ensure there is compliance within the industry, without hindering potential ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marta Yebra is a member of the ACT Multi Hazards Advisory Council and The International Academy of Astronautics. This year’s fire season in Australia feels unpredictable. One week brings torrential ...