r2 - 18 May 2009 - 13:01:06 - LeeBeggYou are here: TWiki >  LunarNumbat Web > LunarNumbatResources > NewZealandSpaceGroups
New Zealand has no Space program or coordination office. There is no regulation to manage space launches (other that the Resource Management Act which is applies to all landuse, CAA regulation that applies to all flight up to the edge of space, and the international treaty for outer space).

Rocketry

In the rocketry field, there are:

NZ Model Rocketry Association http://www.nzrocketry.org.nz/

Aerospace Education http://www.rockets.co.nz/
Education and supply company for model rocketry.

Rocketlab http://www.rocketlab.co.nz/
New (2007) company that is going to build sounding rockets with the eventual goal of suborbital then orbital flights.

Kiwi2Space http://www.kiwi2space.co.nz/
New Zealand team competing in the N-Prize

Spaceflight

In the spaceflight area there is:

NZ Spaceflight Association http://www.nzspace.org.nz/
Group that mostly "sits back and watch" (no plans to do any activities itself except talk).

NZL Sat
Geostationary satellite owner?/manager?/communications licensee (don't bother to visit their website, nothing there)

Massey University Student Space Exploration & Technology Initiative http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/sseti/
Ground station? and involvement in ESA's SSETI

KiwiSat http://www.kiwisat.org/
NZ Amateur Satellite building project. Plenty of Massey University help, mostly vacuum chamber usage.

-- LeeBegg - 13 Feb 2009

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