Brigadier General Anthony J Mastalir will return to this year’s Australian Space Summit & Exhibition to discuss the landmark security partnership alongside Curtin University director Gary Hale.
The super-pressure balloon lifted off from Wānaka Airport and will now spend 100 days or more flying around the Southern Hemisphere’s mid-latitudes, where it will measure neutral wind in the upper atmosphere.
Dr Naoko Sugita is an adviser to the director of the country’s Earth Observation Research Center and works closely with both NASA and the ESA.
Dr Kelly Fast is the space agency’s acting NASA planetary defence officer and will explain the technologies being created to help avoid an Armageddon-style event.
Award-winning space leader, Sang-Ho Yun, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore - Remote Sensing Lab will deliver a keynote at the Australian Space Summit & Exhibition 2025.
It comes after Virgin Orbit in 2022 unveiled a similar ambition to turn Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport into a "horizontal launch" spaceport, before the firm collapsed following the failure of its first landmark launch in the UK.