The second paper in the amazing research journey by Dr Surya Singh from his PhD turning Lunar Soils (i.e. regolith) to Lunar Steel. The first paper covers the extraction of Fe-Si alloys from lunar regolith, and the second paper takes the next step by refining these alloys towards steel production.

Congrats to Surya for this amazing work, and also Prof Geoff Brooks for his leadership through this entire program at Swinburne University of Technology’s insitu-resource utilisation program at the Space Technology and Industry Institute.

Truly incredible to have Forbes(!) feature a follow up on the leadership power of future casting (aka Strategic Foresight) and the opportunity that it affords industry in this era of continual, indeed compounding, changes that we term a polycrisis.

Thrilled to be joining Bohdee Media as a science advisor! Adam Boland and his colleagues are astonishingly creative and accomplished storytellers *and* social/traditional media creators. And never have those communication skills been more needed… the challenges facing our world will require more science and technology not less, and that tech positive view needs to be heard more widely than ever.

The second paper in the amazing research journey by Dr Surya Singh from his PhD turning Lunar Soils (i.e. regolith) to Lunar Steel. The first paper covers the extraction of Fe-Si alloys from lunar regolith, and the second paper takes the next step by refining these alloys towards steel production.

Congrats to Surya for this amazing work, and also Prof Geoff Brooks for his leadership through this entire program at Swinburne University of Technology’s insitu-resource utilisation program at the Space Technology and Industry Institute.

LUNAR STEEL! This is an amazing study undertaken by Dr Surya Singh as part of his PhD at Swinburne led by Prof Geoff Brooks, exploring the conditions under which the soil (aka regolith) of the Moon can be processed to access the iron it contains for potential use on the Lunar surface.

This week I have the privilege of hosting the Australian Space Summit 2026 in Sydney - now in its fifth(!) year and what a moment to be doing it.

We've just seen SpaceX achieve the largest public listing in history. Last year, global private investment in space hit a record. The money has arrived, and the question for Australia is simple: are we going to back ourselves and grow our industries to seize this moment, or watch it pass by and become customers of other nations' capabilities?