“Today marks another step closer: We will have a genuine Space Valley in Southern New Mexico, a hotbed of innovation and achievement and space tourism development."

Its 56 high-throughput spot beams will place capacity over selected regions in South East Asia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.

The joint research project will help to ensure interoperability of high accuracy satellite-based positioning services.

“The research supports ambitions for further and longer journeys into space and will help astronauts to monitor and mitigate the physiological effects of longer exposure to space environments."

Boeing is throwing its weight – and its wallet – behind Sir Richard Branson’s spaceflight company Virgin Galactic.

"Seeing VSS Unity adjacent to the assembly of the next vehicle as well as the cabin of our third spaceship makes it very clear that we are building a fleet of remarkable spaceplanes for commercial service.”

HPE has ambitious plans to shoot for the moon – or at least to build a supercomputer that can support missions to that distant globe that lights up the night sky.

The tracking tool will have huge benefits for future commercial space activity – and for avoiding space debris.

“Empowering scientists with the latest in advanced computing and data analytics solutions is a key component of Supermicro’s mission."

While this was all a test run and the Space Fence is not currently operational, it does show that its surveillance is able to observe these events unfolding at different altitudes in real time. 

The Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Satellite Technologies and Analytics (SmartSat CRC) will be the cornerstone of space technologies.

Investors will soon be sending $3.35 million into space – and helping Kiwi-Dutch startup Dawn Aerospace to make it happen.

After nine years exploring deep space, NASA's spacecraft and telescope will now be another piece of historical space junk.

Rocket Lab says it will be able to build an Electron rocket every week.

Central Otago is going to become home to one of the first radars in the Southern Hemisphere to track small satellites and space debris.

"As the region progresses to 5G, traditional telecommunications networks will need to be innovative in how they meet the immense demand for bandwidth."

Two local teams that recently travelled to France as part of the global ActInSpace semi-final event in Toulouse recently.

The search for New Zealand’s top space talent has come to an end.

“Space technologies are not just about taking people to the moon."

The mission includes manifested payloads for Spire Global and GeoOptics.

An expert has stated that we could soon be launching data centres into outer space to utilise solar power & zero human error, among other things.

Vodafone’s network expertise will be used to set up the Moon’s first 4G network.

The Humanity Star will orbit the Earth for approximately 9 months before its orbit starts to decay and it's pulled back into Earth’s gravity.

Rocket Lab currently has five Electron vehicles in production, with the next launch expected to take place in early 2018.