Australia relies heavily on the U.S.-led WGS constellation for military satellite communications, such as the WGS-6 satellite above (which Australia financed), but wants to include commercial satcom ...

Australia has scrapped a satellite communications system being developed for the military, the government announced on Monday. Lockheed Martin Australia was awarded the tender to build a Defence owned ...

The JP9102 tender will close in January 2022, candidates then will be narrowed in a downselect phase, and a contract could be awarded in the first half of 2023. Companies around the world are ...

SYDNEY, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Australia's defence minister said on Tuesday a defence satellite program was scrapped because of the threat of new technology that can "shoot satellites out of the sky", and ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has cancelled a multi-billion dollar military satellite project with Lockheed Martin, with a Department of Defence statement on Monday saying the military will instead ...

On November 29, 1969, the first Australian satellite launched. It was called the Weapons Research Establishment Satellite. The satellite lifted off from the Woomera Test Range in south Australia. It ...