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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