Northrop Grumman has announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Queensland-based rocket company, Gilmour Space Technologies, to support the development of Australian sovereign space capabilities. As an initial task under the MOU, Northrop Grumman will join Gilmour Space as an industry partner on a previously announced Cooperative Research ...
Dstl is teaming up with British and Australian astronomers to study deep space situational awareness by tracking satellites. For the Argus 2 exercise, satellites orbiting more than 36,000km above the Earth will be tracked to study deep space situational awareness in the latest ‘citizen science’ project. The experiment is designed to ...
Space is becoming a bigger focus for the MOD and British industry in general. Modernisation means that satellites are a much bigger part of battlefield communications and surveillance. Innovations such as drones can be controlled through satellites and information from them can be communicated across a large area quickly. The MOD ...
An International Maritime Security Unit lead by the US is conducting an operation to secure shipping in the Persian Gulf. A maritime security operation has been securing shipping channels through the Persian Gulf. Operation Sentinel is lead by the US and includes Britain, Albania, Bahrain, UAE, Australia, and Saudi Arabia. Kuwait and ...