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The Innovation & Collaboration Centre is home to Venture Catalyst and the state's first space incubator program Venture Catalyst Space. These programs are designed to help founders start their business.

The ICC holds regular feature events on a range of cutting-edge topics for the ICC community and the public, community events for ICC startups, industry experts and other close partners and affiliates, and internal events exclusively for ICC startups.

GroundZero Space

GroundZero Space (GZS) addresses critical orbital threats through a modular, scalable Space Situational Awareness sensor network with AI-native architecture and blockchain-verified provenance. Founded by aerospace professionals Sai Vallapureddy and Dr. Kathiravan Thangavel, GZS delivers sovereign Space Domain Awareness (SDA), autonomous collision avoidance, and Space Traffic Management (STM) to satellite operators, defence agencies, and space stakeholders.

GZS tracks and analyses 130,000+ orbital objects with high precision. The decentralised data bank and rapid response architecture ensures continuous monitoring and swift operational adjustments to evolving space conditions.

  • 24/7 AI-powered tracking with blockchain-verified provenance facilitating Space Traffic Management and protecting orbital assets
  • Real-time collision alerts with sub-metre accuracy and autonomous backup preventing mission failures
  • Predictive analytics and decentralised data banks extending satellite lifespan whilst reducing vendor dependence
  • Unified platform combining satellite tracking, communications, and autonomous traffic management with full data sovereignty.

GZS uses ground and space-based sensors with AI-native processing for enhanced Resident Space Object (RSO) detection, tracking, identification, classification, and collision prediction. The blockchain-verified decentralised data bank provides immutable provenance and transparency, eliminating vendor lock-in. The system features an autonomous failsafe with T-3hr backup when human intervention is unavailable. The system works for civilian and defence applications with proven reliability.

The primary markets include satellite operators, national space and defence agencies. The secondary market is space insurance/risk assessment, launch services, satellite communications and downstream analytics providers. Emerging markets include space traffic management, sustainability services, autonomous operations, and cis-lunar/deep space missions.

Primary markets include satellite operators, space traffic management, national space and defence agencies. Secondary markets include space insurance/risk assessment, launch services, downstream analytics and emerging markets are space sustainability services, autonomous operations, cis-lunar/deep space missions.

Sai Vallapureddy

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Kathiravan Thangavel

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

iccadmin@unisa.edu.au

(08) 8302 7368

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The Venture Catalyst Space program is Australia's first incubator program for startups in the space sector.

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