Fleet Space Technologies, a leading Australian space exploration company, announced today that CEO and Co-founder, Flavia Tata Nardini, has been appointed to Austmine’s Board of Directors. Austmine is the industry leading association for Australia’s mining equipment, technology and services (METS) sector, representing over 700 companies advancing mining innovation around the world.

“Being appointed to a group of such distinguished industry leaders to help chart the course of innovation in the mining sector is truly an honour,” said Flavia Tata Nardini. “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. 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.”

Flavia’s appointment to Austmine’s Board of Directors marks an additional milestone during a year of exponential growth for Fleet. After completing a heavily oversubscribed A$50M Series C funding round and doubling its valuation to A$350 million, Fleet scaled its groundbreaking 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.

At the International Mining and Resources Conference in Sydney, Fleet announced three new features to Exosphere, enabling exploration customers to download several new intelligence assets on-demand from the Exosphere platform that deliver greater insights into the ambient noise conditions, data quality, and confidence levels across different parts of their 3D model. These new features combined with the delivery of 3D subsurface models in days is rapidly disrupting the mineral exploration industry, enabling exploration teams to make agile on-site targeting decisions and hone in on the next wave of discoveries.