NRF backs space startup HEO after US$100 million-plus contract
HEO develops cameras that inspect and monitor satellites in space, and has raised a $37 million Series B from the NRF, Beaten Zone Ventures and Airtree.
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He’s quietly invested in Australia’s biggest space tech startups. Now he’s moving to launch a $150m fund
Will Scully-Power has for the past two been investing in Australian space startups. Now he’s looking to launch a VC fund.
Rocket Lab alum raises $10.5m to build ‘anti-gravity chamber’ for space manufacturing
Outlier Space has raised an unusually large $10.5 million pre-seed round to build a satellite designed to help companies manufacture pharmaceuticals, silicon and other advanced materials in microgravity. Space is becoming a new frontier of advanced manufacturing thanks to the wonders of microgravity. That may sound like sci-fi, but antipodean investors are betting it will […]
Elon Musk claims SpaceX will send ‘thousands’ of people to the Moon and Mars in next ten years
The billionaire CEO said the company planned to land astronauts back on the moon in the next few years, before eventually building a permanent “metropolis” on its surface.”
The soaring financials behind Australia’s newest deep-tech unicorn
Airtree and the NRF led a $158 million round in March that valued Advanced Navigation at over $1 billion. Documents lodged with ASIC reveal a sharp rise in revenue and a fall in losses in the lead up to that unicorn round.
This entrepreneur became a billionaire investing in India. Up next: space and AI
Filippo Ghirelli made a small fortune in Italy then bet on one of India’s largest refineries, making him a billionaire. Now he’s out to build an empire from airports to data centers.
Katy Perry and Gayle King return from space on Bezos’ Blue Origin
Perry, King, and a crew of four other women completed the first all-female flight to space in decades as the latest celebrity passengers of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle.
A deadly asteroid may strike Earth in 2032 — What to know
A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall has been discovered that could strike Earth in 2032. It’s triggered a rare warning by the International Asteroid Warning Network, which NASA chairs.
Homegrown Gilmour Space launching first rocket from Aus in 50 years
Eris TestFlight1 will lift off from Abbott Point in Queensland mid-January, marking the first orbital launch attempt of an Australian-made rocket since the 1970s.
Robinhood’s billionaire cofounder wants to set up hundreds of solar panels in space
Aetherflux, founded by Baiju Bhatt, plans to build a constellation of satellites that can beam renewable energy to the surface using lasers.