Space news stories

EOS Space Systems has become a core partner of the SmartSat Co-operative Research Centre (CRC), giving it priority to select and lead strategic research projects.

Check Point Software is supporting the Rakia Israeli space mission by hosting communication to the specialised control centre.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise drives innovation at the extreme edge on the International Space Station, with 24 completed experiments.

Continuing the progression of Teledyne e2v Semiconductors, the company is now shipping flight models of its Space DDR4 memory solution.

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of two global accelerator programs to help startups address challenges in healthcare, space, and sustainability.

Tech Start will provide the connections and pathways to help women pursue a career in the growing space and defence industry.

Chorus is a narrative space shooter set in an interesting almost open world. The game centres around Nora, the pilot of an AI starship called Forsaken.

Project AI Off Earth will focus on the cutting edge of innovation in space.

Nintendo Switch players get to experience one of the most influential video game series in history with Space Invaders Invincible.

"Today is a historic moment for the new commercial space industry."

Dutch developer, KeokeN Interactive, with their first game, Deliver Us The Moon, invites players on a solitary journey to the lunar surface in order to solve a mystery.

The company has hired a team to build cloud capabilities that meet the unique needs of space.

With $187 million in grants going to research across Aotearoa New Zealand, we look at a few of the tech-related projects that have been given funding.

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."

"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.”

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.

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.