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SpaceOps NZ CEO Robin McNeill awarded Prime Minister’s Space Prize

Our CEO, Robin McNeill, was awarded the inaugural Prime Minister’s Space Prize for Professional Excellence at the Grand Hall at Parliament on Tuesday evening. We are delighted for him and the recognit... read more

SpaceOPs NZ engineer NASA internship recipient

CAPTION: Axl Rogers, third from right, is one of six recipients of the 2024 New Zealand Space Scholarship, along with Narottam Royal and Alexandra McKendry (University of Canterbury), Tait Francis (... read more

South dishes improve GPS create jobs

From the Otago Daily Times... Two 11m satellite dishes have been hoisted into place as work continues on creating a world-class satellite positioning service in Southland. The dishes were... read more

SpaceOps NZ CEO guest speaker at Python event

Kiwi PyCon is the annual gathering for the New Zealand Python community to meet and mingle, to share experiences, to learn from each other and to build lasting relationships. This year's event wa... read more

Warkworth SES

SpaceOps NZ CEO, Robin McNeill (left) accepts the key to the station from Professor Sergei Gulyaev of AUT. Robin McNeill, CEO of Invercargill based SpaceOps NZ, today announced that SpaceOps NZ... read more

SpaceOps NZ's Awarua Satellite Ground Station plays significant role in Trans-Tasman project

SpaceOps NZ's site at Awarua Ground Station is expanding to include a satellite uplink centre, as part of a project that will allow enhanced satellite positioning services across New Zealand and Austr... read more

MOU signed with Space Operations DLR

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Space Operations DLR and SpaceOps NZ was signed in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, on 12 October 2022. The MOU allowed for collaboration between the two pa... read more

Space Ops NZ - Export Award Winners

Space Operations New Zealand Ltd. was recognised last night at the DHL Export Southland 2022 Recognition Awards with a win in the NZAS Innovation in Export Award. Space Ops NZ, which is 100% owned by... read more

New Southland company Space Operations NZ forging path in booming ‘new space’ industry

Great South’s highly successful space operations business has grown to an extent that on 1 October 2021 it will become a stand-alone company, Space Operations New Zealand Ltd. It’s an exciting d... read more