{"id":179389,"date":"2025-09-30T06:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179389\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:25:09","slug":"liftoff-fleet-space-opens-new-hyperfactory-at-adelaide-airport-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179389\/","title":{"rendered":"Liftoff: Fleet Space opens new \u2018hyperfactory\u2019 at Adelaide Airport – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fleet Space Technologies has officially opened its new global headquarters and space-tech hyperfactory at Adelaide Airport\u2019s Catalyst Park.<\/p>\n

The facility \u2013 spanning 5300sqm \u2013 would boost the country\u2019s advanced manufacturing capacity by enabling the production of thousands of next-generation geophysical sensors and hundreds of satellites per year.<\/p>\n

It brings Fleet Space\u2019s business operations into a vertically integrated model, whereby it controls the supply chain, design, manufacturing, operations, engineering and R&D within a state-of-the-art facility.<\/p>\n

It comes in time for the 10th anniversary of Fleet Space, a homegrown company that now operates a constellation of nano-satellites to provide insights for industries like mining, agriculture and defence. The news also follows the company closing a $150 million Series D funding round<\/a>, giving the company a valuation of $800 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen years ago, Fleet Space began the journey of building next-gen exploration technologies \u2013 powered by the latest advances in space, agile geoscience, and AI \u2013 to accelerate the energy transition and support future missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond,\u201d said Fleet Space CEO and co-founder Flavia Tata Nardini, an InDaily\u00a040 Under 40 alumni<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we are proud to open our new global headquarters and space tech hyperfactory to scale our global platform \u2013 ExoSphere \u2013 to fuel the next leap in science, technology, and human exploration \u2013 future-proofing Australia\u2019s leadership in the development of future industries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"GHQ Ribbon Cutting \u2013 Brenton Cox, Managing Director, Adelaide Airport | Michael Brown MP, Assistant Minister for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Economy, Defence and Space Industries | Flavia Tata Nardini, Co-Founder & CEO, Fleet Space | Matt Pearson, Co-Founder & Chief Exploration Officer. Photo: Supplied<\/p>\n

The factory would support the expansion of its AI-powered exploration platform \u2013 ExoSphere \u2013 which is being deployed by some of the world\u2019s largest mining companies including Rio Tinto, Barrick, Gold Fields and Maaden. The system can image mineral systems in real-time across five continents.<\/p>\n

The hyperfactory was also expected to help advance Fleet Space\u2019s off-world missions over coming years, including deployment of the lunar variant of its ExoSphere technology \u2013 SPIDER.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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 \u2013 a critical step in supporting the clean energy transition and near-term ambitions to build permanent research stations beyond our planet,\u201d Fleet Space co-founder and chief exploration officer Matt Pearson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur 10-year anniversary is more than a celebration \u2013 it is a promise of what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cFleet 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The facility opened at the company\u2019s inaugural Horizon Global Summit, a convention of global leaders in space and technology, including explorer Tim Jarvis and representatives from BHP, Maaden, Koloma, Odyssey Space, F1 Academy, Robinson Aerospace, Deadly Science, among many others.<\/p>\n

South Australian Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Economy, Defence and Space Industries Michael Brown said Fleet Space was \u201can excellent example of how South Australia\u2019s home-grown innovation strengthens our nation\u2019s strategic industries\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncreased investment in digital infrastructure and capabilities in our state, continues to make South Australia an attractive and sound investment for world-class space and defence companies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fleet Space Technologies has officially opened its new global headquarters and space-tech hyperfactory at Adelaide Airport\u2019s Catalyst Park.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-179389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}