Enhance your IAC 2025 Experience
Make the most of your stay with tailored Technical Tours during and post congress, across Australia and New Zealand, showcasing the best of our nation’s space industries.
Choose from a range of exclusive Australia and New Zealand Technical Tours.
Meet our innovative start-ups at the National Space Industry Hub, dive into cutting-edge R&D with neuromorphic intelligence at the University of Western Sydney, tour manufacturing facilities like UTS Tech Lab, learn how GEO satellites fly at Optus Space Operation Centre, look back in time at our heritage-listed observatory station at the Sydney Observatory, and much more!
Connect with our innovative start-ups. The Hub provides essential support, mentorship, and a collaborative network that encourages startups working across deep tech to explore applications that extend beyond Earth.
Dive into cutting-edge R&D with neuromorphic intelligence where they study and mimic biological brains and sensory organs to engineer compact, robust, and efficient artificial neural networks that out-perform classical computers and conventional sensors.
Tour manufacturing facilities in our 18,000sqm state-of-the-art research facility offering bespoke industry partnerships for engineering and IT innovation.
Optus Space Operation Centre
Learn how GEO satellites fly at the Belrose Satellite Operations Centre (SOC), a world-class facility that manages over 350 satellite, media and data services. It operates 24/7, 365 days of the year.
Look back in time at our heritage-listed observatory station. A symbol of time and history since 1858, Sydney Observatory has evolved over the years — from steering ships to mapping stars, housing some of Australia's first weather maps to its role now as a public educational space and museum.
Tasmania is a unique gateway for aeronautical and space innovation. Delegates interested in visiting the state can explore space research at the University of Tasmania or visit the Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory.
With flights available to Hobart and Launceston, Tasmania is a must-visit destination for aerospace enthusiasts.
Or email space@stategrowth.tas.gov.au
UTAS is the world’s only university that operates a continental-scale array of antennas.
Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory
Mount Pleasant is home to the Grote Reber Museum, which honours a pioneer of radio astronomy and provides a fascinating insight into the history of space discovery.
From Sydney to Adelaide, select from three great options—Flinders Rangers to Eyre Peninsula or stay in the heart of Adelaide.
Discover the rugged, weathered peaks and rocky gorges of the Flinders Ranges in outback South Australia form some of the most dramatic and beautiful landscapes in the country.
The Eyre Peninsula boasts fantastic food and wine, luxury accommodation and abundant wildlife, but it's best known for its world-famous aquatic activities.
Adelaide and Murray Bridge 4-Day
Experience the tranquil Murray River under some of the darkest skies on Earth, stargazing with expert astronomers.
Western Australia is rapidly becoming a key Indo-Pacific space hub with significant capability in mission operations; communications; tracking; satellite development; launch and returns.
Key Boorloo/Perth space-associated facilities include the Fugro Space Automation, AI and Robotics Control Complex; Australian Automation and Robotics Precinct; and three universities (Curtin, ECU and UWA) with space expertise.
Close to Boorloo/Perth is ESA’s New Norcia facility; UWA Space Surveillance Hub; the Gravity Discovery Centre; and Perth Observatory. In regional Western Australia, the Mingenew Space Precinct and Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara observatory host significant space infrastructure including the SKA-low telescope.
More information coming soon!
Explore New Horizons at the Tāwhaki National Aerospace Centre
Uniquely positioned as a premier gateway for aerospace innovation, the Tāwhaki National Aerospace Centre Technical Tour will offer participants the opportunity to experience one of the world’s best locations for aerospace development, flight testing, and space launch activities. Situated on the unpopulated Kaitorete Spit between Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere) and the Pacific Ocean, this expansive site provides ideal conditions with its flat landscape, open skies, and access to optimal orbits.
Participants will have the opportunity to tour cutting-edge facilities at Tāwhaki, which currently includes a sealed runway designed for advanced aviation and horizontal space launch capabilities. Upcoming additions, such as new hangar facilities and expanded testing infrastructure, further establish Tāwhaki as a critical hub for the global aerospace industry. With strong relationships with local regulators, the Centre plays a pivotal role in streamlining testing and development for both national and international partners, including Wisk, Dawn Aerospace, Kea Aerospace, and many others.
