Fleet Space has launched two new satellites on SpaceX’s huge Transporter 12
South Australia-based Fleet Space has licensed, manufactured, and activated its new ExoSphere product to enhance its technology for detecting underground minerals from space. This will enable mining companies to accelerate the search for minerals and cut costs by reducing their reliance on invasive land surveying.
The SpaceX Transporter 12 rideshare mission carried 130 other payloads in a massive lift in mid-January.
The Fleet Space product has earned recognition as one of Australia’s fastest-growing enterprises, with clients such as Rio Tinto and Core Lithium, conducting over 250 successful surveys across five continents.
“With ExoSphere, we can quickly make real-time decisions, getting into positions where we can define drilling targets quicker,” said Andrew Bennett, Exploration Manager at Core Lithium. “When you can accelerate exploration programs, you are accelerating your discovery, which is a game changer for exploration.”
“These new technologies integrating artificial intelligence and big data are essential to tackle the dual challenges of space exploration and climate change,” Fleet Space Technologies founder Flavia Tata Nardini is quoted as saying. “By making these new capabilities rapidly deployable in a way that complements modern mining operations on a global scale, ExoSphere is charting a course to transform the exploration sector and accelerate mineral discovery before net zero targets fall permanently out of reach,” she said.
Advanced 3D subsurface imaging and AI analysis tools are used in the ExoSphere project, which collectively has the potential to transform the industry sustainably.”
“The convergence of innovation in space, AI, and 3D subsurface imaging represents a foundational pillar of the core technology set that will enable humanity to build permanent research stations on the moon, Mars, and beyond,” said Matt Pearson, Fleet’s chief exploration officer.
“The flywheel we’ve created, by continuously enhancing the subsurface understanding of Earth through the global deployment of ExoSphere simultaneously, drives advances in the technology needed to build highly scalable, data-driven exploration systems for new worlds.”
Fleet Space Technologies, with a compound annual growth rate of 582% over three years, is top of the Fast 100 class for 2023.