EO company Geoneon wins three Australian Space Awards

Tasmanian Earth observation company Geoneon has won three categories at the 2026 Australian Space Awards. These included the evening’s highest accolade, the Excellence Award, awarded to Geoneon CEO and co-founder Roxane Bandini-Maeder.

Geoneon was recognized at the seventh annual Australian Space Awards, held in Sydney on Thursday 18 June 2026, where 28 winners were selected from more than 160 finalists across Australia’s rapidly growing space sector.

The company won Business of the Year - SME, while Ms Bandini-Maeder was named Female Space Leader of the Year and received the Excellence Award, the highest individual honour of the evening. The awards recognize Geoneon’s growth as a Tasmanian space-enabled technology company and its work applying satellite imagery, artificial intelligence and data fusion to map climate risk and vegetation.

The power of Earth observation data

Geoneon CEO and co-founder Roxane Bandini-Maeder said the recognition was a proud moment for the company and for Tasmania’s role in Australia’s space ecosystem.

“Winning three Australian Space Awards is an incredible recognition for Geoneon and for the team behind the work,” Bandini-Maeder said.

“We are proud to be building space-enabled technology from Tasmania and applying it to some of the most practical challenges facing communities, infrastructure owners and land managers.”

“It is also great to see the downstream space sector being recognized. Space is not only about launch, satellites and hardware – it is also about how we use satellite data and space-enabled technology to create real-world impact on the ground.”

“For us, satellite data is only powerful when it can be translated into decisions. These awards recognize not only the technology, but the role Earth observation can play in helping communities and organizations prepare earlier, plan better and build resilience.”