Head, Australian Space Agency
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NASA confirmed the Australian-built Roo-ver will reach the Moon by 2030 under its Artemis program. The ELO2 consortium, technically led by Lunar Outpost Oceania of Melbourne, has $42 million in Australian Government backing.
Myriota has received a $1.5 million grant from the Australian Space Agency's Moon to Mars Initiative, announced at the opening of its Adelaide experience centre, to fund a communications payload for use off Earth.
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Twelve Australian spacetech companies received Moon to Mars Supply Chain Capability grants totalling over $9m for NASA's Artemis, with NextAero, Neumann Space, Metakosmos, Valiant Space, Gilmour Space Technologies and HEO Robotics among those funded.
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Australia's government announces over $9 million in Moon to Mars grants for twelve space projects aligned with NASA's Artemis, helping local companies enter global supply chains.
Australia and the US have signed a Technology Safeguards Agreement easing American rocket launches from local spaceports, while Gilmour has banked an extra $55 million ahead of the debut flight of its Eris rocket.
The University of Melbourne's SpIRIT gamma-ray nanosatellite has launched, with Australian Space Agency grants of nearly $7 million supporting the project alongside Italian and local industry partners.
QuantX Labs is partnering with satellite specialist SSTL through Airbus Australia to prepare its optical atomic clock for a 2026 low-Earth-orbit demonstration under an Australian Space Agency program.
A public competition to name Australia's Trailblazer lunar rover has opened, with the two consortiums building rival designs, AROSE and ELO2, each holding $4 million in grants for early prototype work.
Four Australian space companies are named among ten recipients of Moon to Mars Initiative Demonstrator Program grants, sharing nearly $40 million for projects spanning atomic clocks, navigation technology and payload racking systems.
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Four unnamed manufacturers, three in Queensland and one in South Australia, will share $3 million in federal grants under the Moon to Mars program, supporting the goal of tripling Australia's space sector by 2030.
Four space companies have received federal grants under the Moon to Mars initiative's Supply Chain Capability stream, with the space agency's head praising the link between space and manufacturing.
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.
First grants under the federal Supply Chain Capability Improvement program go to three NSW space companies for edge computing and inertial navigation projects, within the Moon to Mars initiative.
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