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Inspire curiosity.
Use the wonder of space to open doors to science, learning and a bigger view of what’s possible.
CURIOSITY HAS NO BORDERS
Space, through a
New Zealand lens.
Big questions. Hands-on exploration. Connections that reach beyond our shores. This is the KiwiSpace story—and the curiosity that keeps it moving.
A DIFFERENT VIEW OF HOME
KiwiSpace balloon flight · Waikato, 2011
KiwiSpace balloon flight · Waikato, 2011
GROUNDED IN AOTEAROAOPEN TO A WIDER UNIVERSE
01 / THE IDEA
A small country.
An expansive outlook.
Space has a way of bringing people together. Across disciplines, across generations, and across the world.
KiwiSpace began with a simple ambition: to help New Zealanders find their place in that conversation. Through education, exploration and international connections, our projects have brought that idea down to Earth.
What drives KiwiSpace02
Make it tangible.
From a balloon over Waikato to a simulated mission on Mars, turn big ideas into experiences people can share.
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Look beyond borders.
Bring a Kiwi perspective to international exploration, and bring those ideas and connections home.
02 / EXPLORATIONS
Ideas that
left the ground.
Field expeditions, school experiments and home-grown rockets. Different journeys, connected by the same sense of possibility.
EXPLORATION / UTAH
KiwiMars.
A world of questions.
A desert expedition that brought the experience of planetary exploration into New Zealand classrooms.
ENGINEERING & EDUCATION / NEW ZEALAND
Small rockets.
Big ambitions.
Design. Build. Launch. The New Zealand Rocketry Challenge put young engineers in charge of a very precious payload.
There’s more
to the story.
From the edge of space to a first orbit, explore the projects and encounters that helped shape KiwiSpace.
Explore the projects
03 / SPACE SEEDS
A little seed.
An orbital connection.
What happens when plants grow without the usual pull of gravity? New Zealand learners explored the question alongside an experiment on the International Space Station.
Through JAXA and Kibo-ABC, Space Seeds connected simple observations here on Earth with science in orbit.
Discover Space Seeds04 / A COMMUNITY OF CURIOSITY
Good questions.
Interesting company.
Astronauts, engineers, teachers and people who simply wanted to know more.
SPACEUP / 2014A conference
Bring your curiosity.
A Kiwi voice
A conference
you helped create.
Participant-led conversations, shared ideas and a space education connection with Japan.
Inside SpaceUp ↗MEETUPS / 2014–2015Bring your curiosity.
Stay for the conversation.
ISS payloads, Rocket Lab, a Spaceward Bound road trip and a gathering with AUT’s Prof. Sergei Gulyaev.
Meet the speakers ↗INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONSA Kiwi voice
in a wider world.
APRSAF participation, related Kibo-ABC education programmes, and shared roots with New Zealand’s astrobiology community.
Follow the connections ↗05 / A CONTINUING CURIOSITY
The horizon
is still wide open.
Our projects are part of our history. The belief behind them—that New Zealand has a perspective worth sharing—is something we carry forward.
Open to what comes next