Fleet Space Technologies has officially opened its new global headquarters (GHQ) and space-tech hyperfactory at Adelaide Airport’s Catalyst Park.
Fleet Space’s plus-5,300 sq.m facility boosts Australia’s advanced manufacturing capacity, enabling the production of thousands of next-generation geophysical sensors and hundreds of satellites annually, it says. By vertically integrating its business operations – supply chain, design, manufacturing, operations, engineering and R&D within a state-of-the-art facility – Fleet Space is scaling the manufacturing of space, climate and AI-powered technologies needed for the next era of exploration on Earth and beyond.
“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,” CEO & Co-Founder of Fleet Space, Flavia Tata Nardini, said. “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 mining and resource companies like Rio Tinto, Barrick, Gold Fields, and Ma’aden to image mineral systems in real-time across five continents. These new facilities will also enable Fleet Space’s 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 km of Earth’s surface in 2029.
Matt Pearson, co-founder & Chief Exploration Officer of Fleet Space, said: “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. 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.”
The grand opening of GHQ and Fleet Space’s advanced manufacturing facility coincided with Fleet Space’s inaugural Horizon Global Summit, convening global leaders in space, resources and technology to chart the future of exploration on Earth and beyond.
