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UK, US AND Australia launch new AUKUS security partnership

Maritime September 17, 2021

A landmark defence and security partnership has been agreed by the leaders of the UK, the United States and Australia, which will protect and defend shared interests in the Indo-Pacific. The ‘AUKUS’ alliance will enhance the development of joint capabilities and technology sharing, while fostering deeper integration of security and defence-related ...

Northrop Grumman and Gilmour Space Technologies to grow Australian capabilities

Air November 26, 2020

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 ...

UK and Australia join forces on deep space situational awareness

Air February 5, 2020

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 ...

The MOD in space: British plans for satellites

Air December 10, 2019

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 ...