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Space exploration company Fleet Space Technologies has officially opened its new global headquarters and space-tech hyperfactory at Adelaide Airport’s Catalyst Park.
Fleet Space said its 5,300-square-metre facility will boost Australia’s advanced manufacturing capacity, enabling the production of thousands of next-generation geophysical sensors and hundreds of satellites annually.
“Ten years ago, Fleet Space began the journey of building next-gen exploration technologies – powered by the latest advances in space, agile geoscience and AI – to accelerate the energy transition and support future missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond,” said Flavia Tata Nardini, CEO and co-founder of Fleet Space.
“Today we are proud to open our new global headquarters and space tech hyperfactory to scale our global platform, ExoSphere, to fuel the next leap in science, technology and human exploration – future-proofing Australia’s leadership in the development of future industries.”
Fleet Space’s GHQ and space-tech hyperfactory will support the expansion of its global, AI-powered exploration platform, ExoSphere, deployed by the world’s largest mining and resource companies like Rio Tinto, Barrick, Gold Fields, and Maaden to image mineral systems in real-time across five continents.
These new facilities will also enable Fleet Space to advance its off-world missions over the coming years, including deployment of the lunar variant of its ExoSphere technology, SPIDER, for Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 2 and survey the near-Earth asteroid, Apophis, when it comes within 32,000 kilometres of Earth’s surface in 2029.
“The scale, speed and capacity of this vertically integrated facility will equip explorers on Earth and beyond with the agile geoscience solutions needed to move from insight to action faster – a critical step in supporting the clean energy transition and near-term ambitions to build permanent research stations beyond our planet,” said Matt Pearson, co-founder and chief exploration officer of Fleet Space.
“Our 10-year anniversary is more than a celebration, it is a promise of what’s to come. Fleet Space was founded a decade ago on the belief that Australia could shape the future of exploration, and today we are delivering the agile geoscience technologies that are accelerating discovery on Earth, the moon and Mars.”
Fleet Space recently cemented its position as one of Australia’s most valuable space companies after it raised a further $150 million from investors in December last year.
