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Valiant Space's VS-1 thruster has reached orbit aboard Space Machines Company's Optimus servicing vehicle after flying on a Falcon 9, with its development backed by an Australian Space Agency grant programme.
Valiant Space receives a government grant under the Moon to Mars Initiative to scale and flight-test its non-toxic thruster, with orbital demonstrations planned aboard SpaceX missions ahead of a 2023 market entry.
Five Australian spacetech firms won federal grants: EffusionTech, Romar Engineering, Titomic and Q-CTRL under the Modern Manufacturing Initiative, and Valiant Space for a Moon to Mars thruster feasibility study.
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SmartCompany surveys Australia's space tech sector as Gilmour Space lands a $61 million Series C, profiling players such as Fleet, Myriota and Space Machines and recalling Moonshot's incubator backing of eleven startups.
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Australia's space agency has awarded $4 million in Demonstrator Feasibility grants to twenty organisations, backing projects including a lunar construction rover and Valiant Space's in-space chemical thruster, part of the Moon to Mars initiative.