Fully manufactured at Adelaide’s Lot Fourteen, South Australia’s first state-funded satellite, Kanyini, was launched onboard SpaceX’s Transporter-11 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on 17 August 2024. The Kanyini mission has created hi tech jobs in the sector and will deliver critical space data, particularly around sustainability and climate impacts.
Project lead: South Australian Government, SmartSat CRC, Inovor Technologies, Myriota
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.
