Last year, LeoLabs Australia opened its pioneering West Australian Space Radar (WASR) near Collie in the southwest.

When it began operating, the site could already track tens of thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit, but it has since been upgraded to improve its coverage further.

In this episode, the company’s president and managing director, Terry van Haren, talks about WASR’s progress and how it works with the company’s network of global radars.

The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and other failed missions led NASA to rethink how it fostered leadership and culture.

Now, NSW-based Crazy Might Work is using an ultra-modern version of the same program, based on the current space program, to share those learnings with other organisations and leadership teams.

In this special episode recorded at the Australian Space Summit & Exhibition, Paul Hawkins, the company’s chief combobulator, talks to host Adam Thorn about the firm’s origins in Antarctica, whether leaders are born or made and how NASA became the Best Place to Work in federal government for the eleventh year in a row.

This week, the third annual Australian Space Summit & Exhibition took place at the ICC in Sydney.

Now a two-day event, headliners included senior figures from the US Space Force, Virgin Galactic, and the new head of Australia’s Space Command.

In this special episode, recorded during the event, Space Connect’s Adam Thorn and Defence Connect’s Liam Garman and Stephen Kuper discuss the key takeaways from the summit.