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Judith Collins
Defence

Judith Collins: Building on the rock-solid Anzac bond

March 23, 2024

It is important that New Zealand remain a credible partner and ally to Australia through increased integration and interoperability and in the space sector, writes Defence Minister Hon Judith Collins KC. New Zealand and Australia […]

Rocket Lab
Aerospace

Rocket Lab launches first Electron mission of busy 2024 launch schedule

February 3, 2024

The ‘Four Of A Kind’ mission also included a successful splashdown of Electron’s first stage from the ocean after launch, furthering Rocket Lab’s efforts to make Electron the world’s first reusable small orbital rocket. Rocket Lab […]

Judith Collins
Defence

Judith Collins: Innovation, opportunities and being better together

January 5, 2024

We need to work well with others, to contribute, to innovate and to look for opportunities to be better together. AUKUS Pillar II may provide additional opportunity for New Zealand, writes Defence Minister Judith Collins, […]

Super Balloon
Aerospace

Airways partners with NASA to launch stadium-sized balloon to the edge of space

April 18, 2023

NASA has successfully launched a stadium-sized super pressure balloon from Wānaka Airport, with Airways New Zealand safely managing its ascent to the edge of space. Airways, New Zealand’s air navigation services provider, has worked with […]

Space
Aerospace

Rotoiti Brief: Intellectual Property Strategies for Space Startups

April 5, 2023

Informed by interviews with intellectual property experts, Dr Nicholas Borroz writes that space firms’ IP strategies should be tailored to business objectives, and that space poses unique uncertainties for IP strategies. There are two common […]

Pam Melroy
Aerospace

NASA Administrator and Deputy Administrator to visit New Zealand

March 7, 2023

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson  and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will visit Aotearoa New Zealand and start their official program in the week beginning 13 March 13 2023. US Ambassador Tom Udall says that he is very much looking […]

Rocket Lab
Aerospace

Rocket Lab establishes Australian subsidiary to support rapidly growing national space sector

March 1, 2023

Rocket Lab today announced it has established a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Rocket Lab Australia, to explore opportunities to support the expansion of Australia’s national space capabilities. The Australian Government has set a goal to triple […]

Space
Aerospace

Rotoiti Brief: The structure of the space insurance market

February 27, 2023

Informed by interviews with several experts in space insurance, this brief by Dr Nicholas Borroz summarises the major contours of space insurance – what it is, why people buy it, and how it’s changing. The […]

The human domain
Defence

A domain, but not as we know it: Defining the Information Domain

December 19, 2020

Drawing from speaker insights from the NZDIA IDEAS 2020 Part Two virtual event, Nicholas Dynon argues that the extremities of the information domain are critical. This article is part of our focus on the New […]

Professor Rouben Azizian
National Security

Massey University publishes latest National Security Journal

August 13, 2020

In this abridged ‘Comment from the Editors’, Professor Rouben Azizian and Dr John Battersby provide a brief introduction to the just-published second instalment of the National Security Journal. The successful launch of the National Security Journal last […]

RNZAF Orion
Defence

DCP poses big questions over ‘non-traditional’ capabilities

November 24, 2019

Eminent New Zealand academics provide their comments in relation to the 2019 Defence Capability Plan, raising ethical and operational questions around the proposed ‘non-traditional’ capability spend. In the latest instalment from its Notes from the Field series […]

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