Reach every orbit.Return to Australis.

Building Indo-Pacific's access to space, and back.

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2Sovereign corridors

10.5°-98°Full inclination envelope

AUKUS IIAllied aligned

Sovereign corridors

Polar + Equatorial, one operator, one jurisdiction

Max inclination

0°

Equatorial through polar to retrograde SSO

Sealed runway

0 m

Two sealed asphalt runways on sovereign estate

Alliance

AUKUS II

Sovereign Australian jurisdiction

[ Thesis ]

Space is a round trip. We built the spaceport for both directions. Everything flying to orbit needs a way home. Australis opens with re-entry over empty sovereign country, with range and orbital launch right behind. Return is where we start. Launch is how we scale.

The Case

The gaps every allied
space program lives with.

Fig.01 / Dual-Corridor ConfigurationINDO-PACIFIC

Equatorial corridor Polar corridor

The Corridors

Polar corridor

Australis Polar

Nullarbor, Western Australia

Equatorial corridor

Australis Equatorial

Christmas Island

Launch cadence grew tenfold. Return capacity didn't.

Australis brings spacecraft home over empty country, recovered in hours and flown safely and fast to the final destination.

National ranges are oversubscribed.

Commercially accessible infrastructure, built for the missions national ranges cannot prioritise.

One site reaches one family of orbits.

A dual-corridor system covers 10.5° to ~98°. Every inclination, from a single sovereign operator.

Foreign overflight compromises sovereignty.

One jurisdiction, no foreign overflight, and a sovereign ground and telemetry stack.

Capabilities

Launch, return, test
and build.

Six integrated capability lines that close the loop between leaving Earth and coming home.

The Configuration

Whatever orbit a mission needs,
one corridor can reach it.

Fig.02 / Inclination CoverageLEO · MEO · CISLUNAR

Watch the EarthSun-synchronous · 96°-98°Imaging, weather and monitoring satellites: agriculture, mining, climate and disaster response.

Polar · Equatorial

Cover the GlobePolar · 90°Satellites that sweep the whole planet: mapping, science and defence surveillance.

Polar · Equatorial

Connect the WorldMid · 30°-60°Broadband and IoT constellations serving populated latitudes, the fastest-growing segment.

Either corridor

Broadcast & BeamGTO · ≤10.5°Comms satellites boosted toward geostationary; equatorial launch means heavier payloads.

Equatorial

[ Why Here ]

The only footprint on Earth that closes the full case.

Empty, flat, connected, sovereign and owned. A geography almost no allied nation has.

Empty.

Under 0.1 people per km² for hundreds of kilometres. No splash-zones.

Flat.

The Nullarbor Plain. Ideal ballistic footprint and recovery terrain.

Connected.

Two sealed runways, Trans-Australian rail, fibre and 5G on site.

Sovereign.

One jurisdiction. No overflight of foreign states.

Dual.

Polar and equatorial via Christmas Island, and polar via Nullarbor.

Owned.

100% Australian owned.

The Range

Red Haven Range. An inland envelope with nothing underneath it.

A vast, flat, near-unpopulated test envelope on the Nullarbor. No civilian overflight, no shipping lanes, no splash-zones.

Terrain

Nullarbor limestone, ideal footprint

Access

Sealed runways, rail and fibre on site

Mission set

SRM static fire · hypersonic test

Recovery

Wheels or parachute, turned in days

The Build

Proving the corridor,
then scaling the return and launch hub.

2026

Prove the Corridors

Sounding rocket campaigns, re-entry drop-test operations and first test missions.

2027

Sub-orbital cadence

Regular sub-orbital and test operations, with allied flight-test campaigns under the AUKUS framework.

2028

Re-entry hub

In-space manufacturing recovery at scale and the pathway to human-rated re-entry.

2029+

First orbital launch

Orbital launch licensing and the first orbital launch from sovereign Australian soil.

Defence & Government

The allied answer to the Indo-Pacific.

Sovereign launch, return and test infrastructure for allied defence and government, inside a trusted jurisdiction.

Positioned as commercially
accessible allied infrastructure
under AUKUS Pillar II.

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AUKUS Pillar IIPositioned across identified priority areas: hypersonics, quantum sensing, electronic warfare, AI & autonomy, and aerospace capabilities.

ii.

Hypersonic Test & RecoveryInland launch and sealed-runway recovery for glide vehicles and spaceplanes.

iii.

TSA Custody ChainAn Australian-owned cleared entity and a secure-facility pathway under the US-Australia TSA.

iv.

Sovereign StackGround, tracking, telemetry and communications under sovereign control.

The Team

Built by people who have launched, recovered and regulated.

Space Angel brings together spaceport operators, defence executives, orbital launch engineers and space scientists to open the Australis corridor.

Sovereign Australian JurisdictionSLR Act 2018 PathwayWA Space Strategy 2024-30AUKUS Pillar IIFirst Nations Partnership Sovereign Australian JurisdictionSLR Act 2018 PathwayWA Space Strategy 2024-30AUKUS Pillar IIFirst Nations Partnership

Media

Follow the build.

YouTube

Spaceport of the Future

Launch footage, the Spaceport of the Future series and mission updates from the Australis program.

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Podcast, Series 1

Why Western Australia

Conversations on why WA is the next great spaceport geography, with the people building it.

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News & Gallery

From the corridor

Announcements, event coverage and imagery from the Nullarbor, Christmas Island and beyond.

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[ Contact ]

Planning a mission,
or a return to Earth?

Talk to the Australis team about launch windows, range availability and program partnerships.

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