Suborbital launch site
One of the largest commercial testing facility in the world
The Koonibba test range, 40km north-west of Ceduna, is one of the largest commercial testing facilities in the world and is Australia’s first licensed space launch facility. The launch site specialises in suborbital launches and provides companies with the ability to recover rockets and their payload to do further testing and systems validation before launching into orbit.
Project lead: Southern Launch
Upgrades to the combat management system of three Hobart class Air Warfare Destroyers (AWD) will occur at Osborne Naval Shipyard.
Adelaide is home to both full-cycle docking and life-of-type extension project for the current fleet of Collins class submarines to maintain submarine capability prior to the introduction of nuclear-powered conventionally armed submarines.
Under the AUKUS trilateral security partnership (with the US and UK), South Australia is the home of the build for Australia’s new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, the SSN-AUKUS.
