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Australia’s new space institute says it’s time to back the local sector for sovereign capability

Tegan Jones - September 30, 2025 4 MIN READ

Australia has launched the Australasian Space Innovation Institute to cut foreign reliance and speed up space commercialisation. A new not-for-profit space organisation has launched at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney. The Australasian Space Innovation Institute (ASII) aims to speed up the use of industry research, strengthen Australia’s own space capability, and deliver tangible benefits… Read more »

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Melbourne startup Akula Tech hitches a ride on SpaceX Falcon 9 to put smart satellite in orbit

Startup Daily - August 27, 2025 < 1 MIN READ

Akula Tech has joined Australia’s space cohort in orbit, launching its Nexus-01 AI payload on SpaceX via Dhruva Space’s LEAP-1 as Esper’s OTR-2 hyperspectral imager rode along.

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Starship’s explosions show Elon Musk will boldly go where no rocket builder’s gone before when it comes to failures

Sara Webb - June 2, 2025 4 MIN READ

What goes up must come down, and last week yet another of SpaceX’s Starships, the biggest and most powerful type of rocket ever built, came back down to Earth in spectacular fashion. In the sky above the Indian Ocean, it exploded. This was the ninth test flight for the rocket, and the third catastrophic failure… Read more »

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A rogue piece from one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets is about to crash into the moon

Alice Gorman - January 31, 2022 4 MIN READ

In a few weeks’ time, a rocket launched in 2015 is expected to crash into the Moon. The fast-moving piece of space junk is the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which hoisted the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite off our planet. It has been chaotically looping around Earth and the Moon ever… Read more »

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Elon Musk’s satellite broadband, Starlink, is coming to Sydney in 2021

Simon Thomsen - February 22, 2021 2 MIN READ

Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Starlink, will roll out in Sydney later this year.Startup Daily received an email from Starlink on Friday offering us the chance to sign up for the beta phase of the broadband roll out “on a first-come, first-served basis” in 2021. “Starlink is now available for order to a limited number… Read more »

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5 things you should know about tech today

Simon Thomsen - June 9, 2020 3 MIN READ

Hello all. The week starts on Tuesday for much of Australia thanks to a 94-year-old monarch. Don’t forget to tune into the Startup Daily show on ausbiz.com.au every weekday, 2-3pm, where we talk to startup founders, investors and innovators about everything tech. 1. The Amazon customer is not right When an Amazon customer discovered… Read more »

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5 things you should know about tech today

Simon Thomsen - May 4, 2020 4 MIN READ

Happy Monday! Here’s what’s happening in tech. 1. Branson’s glide hustle Just a few weeks after finding the time to send a nice note to everyone at Virgin Australia as the business slid into administration owing creditors Au$7 billion-plus, the show has gone on for Richard Branson, with NSYE-listed Virgin Galactic Holdings announcing its… Read more »