Australian space exploration company Fleet Space Technologies announced Tuesday that its CEO, Flavia Tata Nardini, has been appointed to Austmine’s Board of Directors.
Austmine is an association for Australia’s mining equipment, technology and services sector, representing over 700 companies advancing mining innovation around the world.
This year Fleet scaled its space-enabled mineral exploration technology, Exosphere by Fleet, and expanded the company’s global footprint to the US, Canada, Chile, and Luxembourg.
In November, Fleet announced that a variant of their Exosphere technology, SPIDER, will be deployed on the Moon by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander to search for water ice deposits and deliver subsurface insight about the lunar regolith in 2026.
Shortly after, Fleet Space Technologies was named “Australia’s Fastest Growing Company” by the Australian Financial Review.
“The mineral exploration sector is undergoing a revolutionary shift as it adapts to the unprecedented demand for the inputs needed for the renewable energy transition,” Tata Nardini said in a news release.
“We look forward to working with all Austmine members to enable the sustainable transformation of the mining industry and establish Australia as the industry standard for mining innovation globally.”