
our journey
Founded by a passionate collective of scientists, engineers, and dreamers, we’re on a mission to protect human health beyond Earth. Our flagship project, HIRO-LAB tackling global challenge: how radiation affects essential medicines and healthcare technology in extreme environments.

Why Astraea?
Because failure is not an acceptable outcome.
Astraea Technologies is developing advanced validation solutions for both on- and off-world applications—where radiation, isolation, and extreme conditions make reliability non-negotiable. By treating these environments as the starting point, Astraea is building integrated, real-world testing capabilities designed to ensure human-critical technologies perform when and where lives depend on them.
our philosophy
Astraea is built on a human-first validation philosophy.
We believe that protecting human life demands more than adapting products designed for benign conditions. We develop approaches that assess technologies based on how they perform when it truly matters, enabling organisations to uncover hidden failure pathways before deployment, quantify real-world risk rather than theoretical tolerance, and engineer resilience into products from first principles.
our difference
Extreme environments at the centre.
Astraea is developing validation platforms with extreme environments at the centre. Focusing on radiation, isolation, and resource-constrained conditions to deliver decision-ready, real-world data. Designed for cross-domain application across space, healthcare, defence, and disaster response, these solutions aim to turn testing into actionable insight through advanced analysis and advisory. Built on scientific rigour, secure data, and scalability, Astraea is creating a platform to support customers from early validation through to mission-critical deployment.
why now?
Human presence in extreme environments is accelerating.
Space infrastructure is expanding, healthcare is facing greater radiation exposure and remote delivery challenges, and defence and disaster-response operations are becoming more complex and prolonged. Yet validation frameworks have not kept pace. Astraea is positioning itself at this inflection point, developing technologies that combine deep technical capability, human-centred engineering, and evidence-based validation to help ensure that when humans are pushed to the limits of survivability, the systems protecting them are built to endure.

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ASTRAEA team

Gordon Carroll
Founder & CTO
As Co-Founder and CTO, Gordon ties knowledge and passion of all things space and medicine together into a bold vision for the future of human spaceflight. From experience in the technical side of the space industry, to the fringes of space medical research, Gordon aims to propel Australia to the forefront of the global Newspace medicine sector. With a background in Psychology and Neuroscience, combined with the diverse expertise of the Astraea crew, we aim to revolutionise and advance solutions to the medical challenges of spaceflight and extra-orbital travel.

Brooke
Mills
Co-Founder and CEO
Brooke brings passion and experience to the team as its CEO. She has 20+ years of working in start-ups and small businesses and a lifetime of love for all things space. Brooke is a seasoned Project Manager and was a part of the establishment leadership team for Quantum Australia, a DISR-funded growth centre dedicated to Australia's quantum industry.

Graeme Kuchmar
Marketing & Comms
A strategic storyteller with a passion for space, technology, and innovation, Graeme blends deep marketing expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit. With a background in stakeholder relations and a curiosity for programmatics and engineering, he brings creative flair and vision to Astraea—bridging the gap between groundbreaking ideas and real-world impact.
Our values
At Astraea, we’re driven by curiosity, powered by collaboration, and guided by integrity. We push the boundaries of space medicine through bold innovation, open science, and sustainable thinking. With a caring, future-focused mindset, we’re not just building technology—we’re mentoring a movement to inspire the next generation of space explorers.

Open, honest communication & scientific integrity.
A collaborative, diverse, and supportive environment.
Anticipating global needs with long‑term relevance.
Delivering on commitments.
transparency
vibrant and inclusive
future-focused
Accountability

Innovation
Collaboration
Transparency
Sustainability
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