Enable Aerospace
Who We Are
Enable Aerospace is an Australian owned and operated specialist Aerospace engineering company with industry leading capabilities in Aerospace, Space, and Defence market sectors.
Founded in 2016 and located in Melbourne Australia, we operate a vertically integrated business model comprising a range of bespoke engineering services that streamline the customer value chain.
We comprise a specialised team of professionals with extensive Aerospace and European space experience allowing us to progressively expand our portfolio into space systems.
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Company Founders
Don Love
Thirty years of aerospace industry experience across Australia, UK, and USA with extensive experience in aircraft conceptual design, certification, and modifications. He is a trusted leader in engineering, business and project management across aerospace, defence and IT. He brings breadth and depth to Systems Engineering and engineering enterprise development.
Rowan Geddes
Rowan holds an Associate Diploma of Engineering- Aerospace Systems, and a degree in Aerospace Engineering. He has 23 years of aerospace experience across Australian, UK, Europe, and USA with extensive experience in the complete cycle of aircraft design, build and test. His focus is on aircraft and spacecraft full lifecycle design, focusing on concept and proposal development to meet complex mission design requirements.
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What We Do
Our purpose – driven to Innovate and Engineer – We deliver systems in Air and Space.
What We Do
We Enable SPACE
- We enable our customer’s vision for operations in space and provide the expertise, systems, and hardware engineering to achieve it.
- We provide spacecraft design, assembly, integration, test and launch support.
- We deliver payload development services, including environmental hardening, qualification and integration.
What We Do
We Enable AEROSPACE
- We provide an end-to-end capability in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) design, manufacture, integration, certification, flight test and operational support.
- We specialise in rapid prototyping and flight test of innovative airframe and systems designs.
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Product Offering
Universal Payload Rack System (UPRS)
A novel payload interface designed to integrate customer payloads onto standard racks within spacecraft, aimed to standardise to a new broad application payload interface standard. This project received grant funding from the Australian Government’s Moon to Mars Initiative.
Agile Constellation Concept (ACC)
Agile constellation is an end-to-end solution for a compact and resilient satellite capability to enhance Australia’s sovereign earth observation and communications capabilities.
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Brolga
Brolga is an in-house funded development program involving the design, prototype, and flight demonstration of a Tilt-Wing UAS for Civil and Defence Missions.
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Our Team Culture
Enable Aerospace considers the culture of its people to be its greatest asset.
We understand each individual action can affect product and service quality and each individual contribution is important to the company’s overall success.
We know Australian engineers can produce world’s best technologies and we back them to produce big results.
We take part in some of the most interesting projects of our time. To manage new and complex challenges, we foster an open culture of teamwork and knowledge sharing.
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Our Values
We seek to progress humanity, on earth and in space.
Our customers and the community are the beneficiaries of the work we do. We consider what we do and the wider impacts.
We address challenges together quickly.
Although we may change the route to our destination, we don’t lose our focus on the objective. We are continually learning, implementing lessons learnt and improving as a result.
We listen and understand before we contribute.
Critical thinking is progress. We operate on hard facts, analysis and robust experimentation and demonstration. Empathy enhances insight so we can collectively achieve.
We are disciplined and agile.
Let our work be inspiring and ambitiously adopt modern practices.
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Our Advantage
Our Advantage
The Power of Experience
Certainty, reliability, and quality – this is what our clients want, and we have more than 50 cumulative years in delivering it.
Our Advantage
Modern Engineering Methods
We refuse to accept the limits of traditional engineering methods extending best practices with agile methods and imagination. Faster, more accurate, improved quality, cost effective solutions in product and service delivery.
Our Advantage
Deliver Certainty
Investing in technology and people to deliver world class solutions and pioneer new ones.
Our Advantage
A Responsible Business
Every organisation has an impact on the world around it. Being a responsible business means being transparent about what these are, measuring them accurately and then acting to minimise them.
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Working With
Sierra Space
Sierra Space has more than 30 years of proven spaceflight heritage and has provided more than 4,000 space systems, subsystems and components to customers worldwide, and participated in more than 500 missions to space, including to Mars. The company has technology in production and in development to enable space habitats for short- and long-duration space travel, a fleet of Dream Chaser spaceplanes, and the first free-flying commercial space station.
RMIT University
RMITUniversity is a global university of technology, design, and enterprise. The Sir Lawrence Wackett Centre, at RMIT University, supports the Transformation and growth of Australia’s defence, aerospace, and transport systems industries.
University of Melbourne
Established in 1853, UoM is Australia’s leading research and teaching university. It is a founding member of the Group of Eight – Australia’s leading research-intensive universities – and consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world for research and teaching, with international rankings as number 1 in Australia and number 32 in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020).
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Contact Us
Phone Number
+61 3 9646 3393
Email Address
info@enableaerospace.com
Head Office
43-49 Wharf Road
Port Melbourne VIC 3207
Australia