Darling Downs Security & Defence

Darling Downs Security & Defence

Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Gladstone, Bundaberg and Toowoomba all support a significant ADF presence nearby or provide port and freight access for Defence.

The University of Southern Queensland’s (UniSQ) Institute for Advanced Engineering and Space Sciences, based in Toowoomba, provides a dedicated facility for space and defence research. UniSQ’s unique capabilities and facilities include Australia’s longest duration hypersonic wind tunnel (>200ms); the only Australian university solid propellant rocket fuel manufacturing laboratory; rocket motor and fuel tank manufacturing with Australia’s most advanced industry scale robotic composite material filament winding cell; and Australia’s only capability in airborne diagnostics for re-entry observations of Space modules. UniSQ has significant capability in ultra-high temperature ceramic matrix composites for rocket motor components.