Adelaide’s Fleet Space Technologies has teamed up with Australia’s F1 Academy rising star Joanne Ciconte, adding Fleet branding to her kit from 2026 and aligning the space company’s data-first ethos with a young driver on the rise — as Fleet scales new manufacturing in Adelaide and readies a lunar mission.
South Australian satellite exploration startup Fleet Space has partnered with US startup Koloma in the hunt for natural hydrogen around the world. Fleet’s space-based mapping platform, ExoSphere, will be used by Koloma, which has raised US$400 million in venture funding, to generate real-time 3D subsurface imaging of prospective hydrogen-forming geological formations. While many tech companies… Read more »
South Australian startup Fleet Space Technologies has raised $150 million in a Series D that values the satellite developer and data analytics platform at more than $800 million. The round was led by Canada’s Teachers’ Venture Growth, the VC arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Existing investors Blackbird Ventures, Hostplus, Horizons Ventures, Artesian Venture Partners,… Read more »
The latest Centauri-6 satellite developed by Adelaide mining tech startup Fleet Space Technologies is now in orbit after heading skywards aboard SpaceX’s Bandwagon-1 “ridesharing” mission. The Falcon 9 reusable rocket’s payload of 11 satellites took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida last week. The Centauri-6 microsatellite brings Fleet Space’s constellation of low earth… Read more »
Adelaide-based Fleet Space Technologies has appointed its former head of marketing, Chloe Leclerc, as its new chief marketing officer (CMO). She’s been charged with building Fleet’s go-to-market strategy and presence in Australia and North America, with a focus on its satellite-based solution for minerals exploration. Fleet designs, builds, and operates small satellites which deliver universal… Read more »
Two of Australia’s New Space pioneers — Queensland rocket manufacturer Gilmour Space Technologies, and South Australian nanosatellite manufacturer for the Internet of Things (IoT), Fleet Space Technologies — are joining forces to launch small satellites to orbit. “We have signed a contract to launch six Fleet Space Centauri nanosatellites on our Eris rockets in 2023,”… Read more »
One of these things is not a nanosatellite. South Australian startup Fleet Space Technologies has raised US$7.35 million (AU$10.8m) to fund internet of things (IoT) connectivity to remote industries using nanosatellites. Global funds Momenta Ventures and Horizons Ventures – the private investment arm of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing- led the raise, with local funds Blackbird… Read more »
Adelaide startup Fleet Space Technologies has opened its mission control centre ahead of the planned launch of two of its nanosatellites later this year.
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