Tag: Space Industry Association of Australia

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Space Industry Association chief exits

Space Industry Association of Australia chief executive Maria MacNamara has stepped down from the job just three months after joining the national peak body. Ms MacNamara announced her departure...

Space treaty stoush opens up over sovereign controls

Posted on   |  by James Riley
What was supposed to have been a no-brainer treaty between the US and Australia promising to boost the local space industry – the Technology Safeguards Agreement – has instead...

Tech industry welcomes board, awaits investment mandate

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Industry bodies have cautiously welcomed Industry and Science minister Ed Husic’s eight appointments to National Reconstruction Fund board, with some reserving judgement until details on the investment mandate are...

NRF implementation critical to success: Industry groups

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Industry groups have welcomed the passage of the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation bill, but say the design and implementation of the landmark co-investment fund will be critical to its...

Watch this space: Sector waits on new govt policies

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Australian government has agreed to only a handful of the 38 space industry development recommendations it received a year ago, resisting calls to provide more specific funding to...

Space sector must get down to earth: Main Sequence

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian space companies need to be either “full stack” or have additional terrestrial applications for their products to attract the market’s shrinking venture capital, according to Main Sequence Ventures...

Time to make Australian space agency permanent: Industry

Posted on   |  by Ben Grubb
The Australian Space Agency should be made a permanent statutory authority and be given funding that is more in line with comparable countries like Canada, the head of Australia’s...

Local space sector is over the moon

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The $150 million federal play to involve Australian companies in American missions to the moon and Mars has been cautiously welcomed by local space firms, with hopes it could...

Space funding is still ‘inadequate’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Funding earmarked by the Federal government to grow the local space sector and help Australian companies engage internationally remains “woefully inadequate” and at the “extreme low end” of what...