Satellite communications manufacturer Quasar Satellite Technologies has announced it has been awarded a $5.3 million Defence Innovation Hub contract for space communications and space domain awareness. With more than 50,000 satellites expected to be launched in the next decade, there is a pressing need to improve the way that satellites are supported, and how space…
Australian satellite communications business Quasar Satellite Technologies is among seven companies selected to participate in the 13th Catalyst Accelerator, a program run by the US Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/RV). Quasar has developed a technology based on CSIRO’s phased array research and is able to communicate with thousands of nanosatellites through one…
CSIRO related start-up company Quasar Satellite Technologies has launched its world first fully digital multibeam satellite ground stations. The stations will revolutionise the space industry, enabling government, defence and intelligence agencies, as well as private organisations, to establish a view of every satellite in orbit, according to a statement. To be unveiled at the Space…
By Rachel Bolton One of the great joys of scientific innovation is looking at an existing technology and envisioning a completely novel application outside its original purpose. Quasar Satellite Technologies is a rather elegant example of just that. The new Australian startup is reimagining the application of phased array feeds, originally designed for astronomy and space…
Space industry startup Quasar Satellite Technologies has raised $12 million to commercialise a breakthrough technology that allows ground stations to communicate with hundreds of satellites at once. With ground stations typically talking to a single satellite, Quasar’s technology based on CSIRO’s phased array research will communicate with the thousands of nanosatellites now entering low earth…
CSIRO’s venture capital arm, Main Sequence, has led a Series A round for Menlo Park, California-headquartered factory automation-as-a-service company RIOS Intelligent Machines, with the US company to establish a presence in Australia.
By Brent Balinski It’s regular nowadays that you’ll read a report of some milestone Australian bit of space industry news, whether it’s around a satellite deployment, funding round or launch. Just on Friday, the biggest rocket launched from Australia in 40 years — albeit a Taiwanese-made craft — was scheduled to take off from Southern…
