Kluwer: 2026 Australian Arbitration Week Recap: Arbitration Beyond Borders: Resolving Disputes in the New Space Economy

Space is no longer the “final” frontier. It is now woven into the fabric of everyday life, with communications, navigation, weather forecasting, environmental reporting, emergency response and defence all relying on space-based technologies.

Nor is Australia’s space sector merely prospective. Currently worth AUD 8 billion a year, the industry is growing rapidly. In January 2026, Gilmour Space Technologies announced that it had secured AUD 217 million in a Series E round jointly led by the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (“NRFC”) and Hostplus. In June 2026, Southern Launch, which