Space Research and Technology in Australia

Space Angel

Pioneering Sustainable Space Access in the Indo-Pacific Space Angel is redefining the future of space exploration with cutting-edge, sustainable space infrastructure. As the first company to develop a dual-corridor spaceport, strategically positioned for both polar and equatorial launches, we are unlocking new frontiers in global space access. With state-of-the-art green spaceports in Eucla, WA, and Christmas Island, Space Angel provides a seamless platform for launch, re-entry, and landing, ensuring safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible space operations. Our mission is to democratize access to space—empowering research, industry, and international collaboration while setting new benchmarks in safety, innovation, and sustainability. By transforming the Indo-Pacific into a global space hub, Space Angel is leading the charge in the next generation of space exploration.

1 to 10 staff

Unsw Rocketry Team

Based at UNSW Sydney, we are a vibrant, student-led team on a mission to design, build, and launch high-power rockets. With a culture driven by innovation and curiosity, we push the boundaries of space exploration while fostering growth and success across engineering and business disciplines. What makes us unique? We welcome students from all backgrounds and skill levels, providing comprehensive training and mentorship to help you grow. Whether you're taking your first steps in rocketry or have technical experience, we offer unmatched opportunities for hands-on learning, technical mastery, and leadership development. Our team competes on both national and global stages, achieving remarkable success. Recent highlights include- Successful development and test flight of Zenith, our 2024 competition rocket, yielding valuable insights for future projects - 🥉 3rd place in the ft COTS category at the 2024 Australian University Rocketry Competition (AURC)- 🥇 Best Media Award and 🥉 3rd place in the ft COTS category at Spaceport America Cup (SAC) 2023 In 2024, we launched groundbreaking research rockets, including- Genesis: Our first-ever two-stage rocket - Tom and Gerry: Showcasing in-house SRAD Flight Computer, Tuffy - She’ll Be Right: A single-separation dual-deploy system with advanced avionics Looking ahead, our multi-stage rocket Spectre represents a culmination of a year of engineering innovation as we prepare for the International Rocketry Engineering Competition (IREC) 2025. As part of a thriving ecosystem of student-led projects at UNSW, we are passionate about inspiring the next generation of engineers, scientists, and business leaders. Through education, outreach, and collaboration, we create a community where students thrive and learn together. Ready to reach new heights? Join us as we continue pushing boundaries and building Australia’s rocketry future. For partnership opportunities, contact us at unswrocketry@gmail.com.

51 to 200 staff

Arc Centre Of Excellence In Plants For Space

P4S’ mission is to re-imagine plant design & bioresource production, through the lens of Space, to enable off-Earth habitation & provide transformative solutions for improving on-Earth sustainability.

11 to 50 staff

Australasian Centre For Space Governance

The Australasian Centre for Space Governance (ACSG) is a not-for-profit that advocates for responsible laws, norms and policies on space activities, to foster sustainability, security and shared prosperity across the Indo and Asia-Pacific. It grew out of he Australian Centre for Space Governance. We focus on three areas of effort: 1) Producing interdisciplinary research to solve national and global space governance challenges; 2) Serving the region's space law and governance needs (government, industry, and broader stakeholders); and, 3) Engaging in outreach, advocacy, and education and training across various sectors to increase space literacy. To help achieve the above, we bring together academic experts in fields such as space law, governance, policy, science and technology studies, security, property, history, ethics, political, and social sciences. We are committed to the values of interdisciplinary collaboration; safety, security and sustainability in space; diversity and inclusivity in the space sector; and ensuring the space sector incorporates Indigenous co-design and governance values to the use of land, sea and skies for space activities.

1 to 10 staff

Anu Institute For Space Inspace

InSpace connects space research at Australian National University with society's biggest challenges to deliver positive impact. We do this by shaping and growing the Australian space ecosystem in partnership with Academia, Industry, Government, and Communities. The Australian National University Institute for Space operates under the Research & Innovation Portfolio as a team of individuals dedicated to the common goal of crossing disciplinary borders and developing new opportunities for collaborations in space research across ANU, the Australian space sector, and globally. Space is more than the traditional image of astronauts exploring our solar system or astronomers looking through telescopes. Space is about innovation, technological advancement, and making life better for people on Earth. It’s about satellites and the valuable data they can collect from space, space health and medicine advances that translate to your local hospital, and rovers and robotics that work off-world and in places on Earth that humans cannot reach. ANU InSpace works with Academia, Industry, Government, and Community partners to catalyse space research. We engage with the global space industry, bringing cross-disciplinary capability together to solve national challenges and enable ANU and Australia to contribute to global initiatives such as climate and water resilience, remote healthcare access, and regional security. InSpace team members are advocates for space innovation. They represent ANU, its space capabilities, and world-leading research expertise as members and leaders of influential groups that are shaping the future of Australia’s space industry.

11 to 50 staff

Metakosmos

Metakosmos is redefining human performance in extreme environments on Earth, in orbit & beyond. As space commercializes and defense operations become more autonomous and data-driven, the world is entering a decade that will demand life-support, mobility & protection systems that are smarter, lighter, safer & radically more adaptive. Metakosmos exists to deliver exactly that. Our flagship platform, Kosmosuit, is an AI-native, sensor-dense spacesuit & survival systems architecture that brings the intelligence of a digital cockpit directly to the human body. By integrating bioastronautics telemetry, environmental sensing & predictive analytics, we create a real-time adaptive layer between the operator and the harshest conditions imaginable. From next-generation space suits for commercial spaceflight to modular life-support and protective systems for defense, aerospace & subsea missions, our technology transforms raw data into actionable foresight. Where hardware innovation is traditionally slow, Metakosmos accelerates compressing development cycles from years to months through rapid prototyping and iterative validation with space agencies standards, defense units & advanced manufacturing. While legacy OEMs focus on components, we are building the operating system that orchestrates them creating a defensible systems and data layer that becomes more intelligent with every use case. As global demand surges for human-machine integration across orbital servicing, lunar operations, high-risk defense tasks, and industrial robotics, Metakosmos stands at the intersection of three explosive markets: SpaceTech, Bioastronautics & Intelligent Wearables. We are not just building suits. We are building the future of augmented human capability. Watch our Apple TV documentary: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/suited-for-the-stars/umc.cmc.6uk1ff80nkzji0op1l8kcq61n

1 to 10 staff

National Space Society Of Australia

The National Space Society of Australia is an nonprofit educational membership organization dedicated to the creation of a spacefaring civilization.

11 to 50 staff

Past - Perth Aerospace Student Team

PAST is Curtin University's (School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering and Space Science and Technology Centre) student run undergraduate team, mentored by BINAR Space Program, with the objective of building, testing and flying a student-designed and built Cube Satellite. With a range of technical and team resources departments supporting students across disciplines from engineering to marketing, we welcome applications from all WA undergraduate university and TAFE students!

11 to 50 staff

Deneb Space

Deneb Space specialises in autonomous satellite technologies that enhance the manoeuvrability, reactivity and collision avoidance capability.

1 to 10 staff

Prism Neuro

Prism Neuro develops advanced technology to measure and improve human movement control. Our solutions provide objective sensorimotor insights that support: Sport: reducing injury risk, informing return-to-play decisions, and identifying emerging talent. Space: understanding and mitigating motor-control decline during exposure to microgravity. Health: addressing movement-control deficits associated with ageing, injury, and disease. Headquartered at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, Prism Neuro works across elite performance, clinical care, and human spaceflight to help people move better, perform better, and stay healthier.

1 to 10 staff

Australian Space Diversity Alliance

Our purpose is to transform and expand the participation of diverse and minoritised groups in space, fostering a thriving and innovative space community that reflects our nation's capabilities. There is an enormous opportunity in Australia with a growing industry to normalise and mandate equality and leadership from the start. Increasing diversity can contribute to meeting the Australian Space Agency’s Civil Space Strategy workplace goals. ASDA is a not-for-profit organisation that is bipartisan and independent to maintain its neutrality.

1 to 10 staff

Off Earth Resources

Off Earth Resources Pty Ltd (OER) is an Adelaide-based startup focusing on the provision of space resources for use in the developing in-space industry ecosystem.

1 to 10 staff

Orbt

Battling spinning top robots that take gaming fun off the screen and into real life!

1 to 10 staff

Space Protocol

Space Protocol is championing decentralized sensing, sharing, and reacting as the foundation for autonomous satellites to collaboratively detect and respond to threats without centralized control.

1 to 10 staff

Utva Wa

UTVA WA provides research and development, production and prototyping services.

1 to 10 staff

Zupreme Corp

Leading growth & access to global talent in technologies, product research & development

201 to 500 staff

Herik Labs

Launching Australia to space with the world's most efficient rocket engine.

1 to 10 staff

Australian Centre For Space Engineering Research Acser , Unsw Sydney

For more than a decade at UNSW Sydney, the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Researc (ACSER) has provided leadership in Australian space engineering research. Striving to foster collaboration between research, industry and government we seek to nurture links between our national and international partners to achieve Australia's space ambitions. Our goal is to develop space capabilities relevant to Australia's needs through research, innovation and education. ACSER has research strengths in an ever-broadening range of fields, including in GNSS receiver design, Cubesat/Satellite technologies, UAV Reflectometry, and the exciting new forefront of Space Resource Utilisation. We offer a wide variety of PhD opportunities for students looking to expand their knowledge and qualifications in these areas. ACSER engages and connects through regular forums, workshops and events. We bring together the niche, and the not so niche, to encourage and facilitate future partnerships and collaborations so that Australia can secure and grow our place in space.

11 to 50 staff

Australian Regolith Geoscientists Alliance Arga

ARGA promotes the important role that regolith science plays in Australia. Regolith geoscience is critical in the Australian context, as more than 70% of the continent is covered by transported material and deep weathering profiles. The alliance has existed since the ending of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME) in 2008. It builds upon the legacy of decades of Australian regolith research, including work at universities, state and Australian government agencies that culminated in CRC LEME. We welcome all people who have an interest in regolith geoscience and its many facets, including geology, geochemistry, geophysics, geochronology, mineral exploration, pedology, biology, hydrology, meteorology, agronomy, forestry, etc. The objectives of ARGA are to further the study of regolith geoscience and its allied disciplines (including Critical Zone studies) by- facilitating the exchange of information among members of the association, and in general for all those interested in regolith geoscience - stimulating interest in regolith geoscience - encouraging the practical applications of regolith geoscience research - providing high-quality education and training - promoting regolith geoscience to the broader community. ARGA’s goal is to promote research and education in regolith geoscience by fostering interaction and knowledge exchange between academia, government agencies, the minerals industry and the general public. To achieve these goals as a Specialist Group, ARGA facilitates-an ARGA Symposium and/or field workshop at the next Australian Geoscience Council Convention (AGCC) and/or the Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC), together with organisational and editorial support -a biennial conference and field trips in opposite years to the AGCC and/or AESC, with extended abstracts volumes -the Keith Scott Memorial Award for best presentation at the biennial ARGA conference and many other initiatives!

51 to 200 staff

Mareekh Dynamics

Mareekh Dynamics is a space technology start-up developing habitat systems for low-pressure planetary (Mars and the Moon), and high-altitude (Earth) environments. Our goal is to create low cost, extremely efficient human habitation structures based on our patented Craterhab design that made it to the list of top ten finalists in the International Mars City State Design Competition 2020. For planetary environments such as Mars, the Craterhab Technology incorporates human habitation modules, radiation shield, and a novel power generation technology from in-situ resource utilization of Martian sub-surface ice. Scaled down version of Craterhab Technology can be applied in high-altitude environments on Earth to help prevent and mitigate acute and chronic altitude sickness that affects millions of residents of those environments such as Andes, Himalayas, and Tibet. This also includes hundreds of thousands of workers working in very high-altitude mining sites around the globe particularly in Andes, and the trekkers and mountaineers. Establishment of Craterhab pressurized habitat systems at the mining sites in excess of 4500m above sea level will also help us realize our visioned Halfway-to-Mars Initiative (H2M) for training the astronauts for Mars (Marstronauts). And not forgetting the promotion of tourism at high altitude regions. The opportunities that can be made possible through the Craterhab Technology are limitless. We completion of the patenting process in 2022 and 2023 and presenting it at the International Mars Convention, we have now launched our partnerships and collaborations, and fundraising campaign through the Founders Institute.

1 to 10 staff

Starbound Space Solutions

We accelerate great engineering by transforming tacit knowledge into deployable wisdom. Starbound’s platform lets you access world class human rocket science experience via our helpful AI, Virgil. Virgil helps companies to access the space market by streamlining the technical compliance processes. It liberates Systems Engineers from MS Word and Excel. Our mission is to empower everyone to access the space sector, including space industry start-ups and terrestrial or earthbound companies excited to enter the space domain. Virgil is constantly learning from the world’s foremost space engineers. It draws upon centuries of real human spaceflight experience. This significantly reduces the effort lost to paperwork, so businesses can focus on their core mission. Starbound is building a future where anyone can be a rocket scientist, irrespective of background. Curated Human Space Engineering Expertise. Delivered by locally run Al, without hallucinations. Australian Space Awards Company Research Team of the Year 2025 Queensland AI Awards Most Promising Early Stage AI Technology 2024 Queensland AI Hub LaunchAI Startup of the Year 2024

1 to 10 staff

Toliman Space Telescope

The TOLIMAN space telescope takes another step forward in planning for humanity’s interstellar journey, by identifying if there an Earth Analog in Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbour star system. TOLIMAN is a low-cost, agile, and ambitious mission led by scientists at the University of Sydney School of Physics. By employing methods of astrometric detection, TOLIMAN is able to record the ‘wobble’ signal in the separation of binary stars caused by gravitational forces of a planet. The TOLIMAN payload is a 12.5cm space-based telescope which is now under construction. It will be carried by a 16U CubeSat bus and is scheduled to launch in 2024 into 550km sun-synchronous orbit around Earth. The mission is primarily funded by the Breakthrough Initiatives, which investigate the fundamental questions of life in the Universe: Are we alone? Are there habitable worlds in our galactic neighbourhood? Can we make the great leap to the stars? And can we think and act together – as one world in the cosmos?

1 to 10 staff

Vidi Astra

1 to 10 staff

Lunaria One

Pioneering sustainable space exploration and pushing the boundaries of human potential. At Lunaria One, we blend Australia's unique expertise with global talent to make sustainable activities in space a reality. Our team’s diverse strengths in biology, engineering, psychology, and education drive a shared vision for the future—one where space exploration benefits all. Our First Mission: The ALEPH Project With our first payload launching to the Moon in 2025, the ALEPH project aims to demonstrate that life can germinate and thrive in harsh lunar conditions. By placing a carefully selected payload of seeds and plants on the lunar surface and learning how they adapt, we will take early steps towards the goal of a sustainable human presence on the Moon. This isn't just a lunar mission - what we learn about adaptability in conditions on the Moon will benefit agriculture in extreme environments here on Earth. Community and Outreach We believe that space belongs to everyone. That’s why Lunaria One integrates citizen science and educational outreach into our projects. Our aim is to engage people of all ages and backgrounds, inviting them to be part of this groundbreaking journey. Explore how you can participate and be involved at https://plantsonthemoon.au. Join us in advancing sustainable space research and inspiring the world through shared exploration.

1 to 10 staff