From satellite education to space junk eliminators: Meet SA’s next-gen space-tech founders

 A handful of aspiring South Australian entrepreneurs have today been unveiled as participants in a commercial space program run by the University of South Australia’s Innovation & Collaboration Centre (ICC) and the state government’s Space Innovation Fund.

Called Venture Catalyst Space (VCS), the program supports emerging space-tech businesses with funding, mentoring and networking opportunities, and has previously backed 29 startups that have collectively raised $14 million in additional investment and grants since the initiative’s inception in 2018.

The latest cohort includes a number of South Australia-based startups, ranging from those looking to clean up space debris and junk to techies building real-time visualisation tools for large swathes of data, as well as a founder fresh out of high school who wants to educate students on the importance of CubeSats - a kind of nanosatellite used for research.

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