New jobs and investment for Australia’s growing space industry are promised with the backing of the new space agency. It’s hoped that all states and territories will benefit from a national approach.
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Funding for Australia’s Space Agency is expected to be announced at Tuesday’s federal budget. It’s been a long campaign to get an agency up and running and The Conversation has followed the journey.
Australia’s space sector responded positively to today’s federal government commitment to a space agency. Our experts explain what must come next.
We don’t need another review of Australia’s space industry, we just need a space agency.
Australia’s hoping to take a share of the billion-dollar space industry with the launch of its first totally Australian-built satellites in 15 years.
Increasing Australia’s role in the billion-dollar global space industry has hardly raised a mention in this year’s federal election campaign.
The millions we spend on the space industry don’t go up in smoke: they pay for jobs, services, new technology and much more.
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Andrew Dempster is a Friend of The Conversation.Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW
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Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
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Chief Executive Officer, Australasian Centre for Space Governance; Associate Expert, National Security College, Australian National University
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Lecturer in space and military law and strategy, UNSW
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Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Director of The Australian National University Institute for Space and the Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre, Australian National University
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Senior lecturer, School of Law and Justice, University of Newcastle
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PhD candidate in international business and comparative political economy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Deputy Director, Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Australian National University
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Professor of Space Engineering, University of Surrey
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Emeritus Professor of Spacecraft Engineering, University of Surrey
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PhD, Space Engineering, University of Surrey
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Professeur associé en management de l'innovation et stratégie, Co-directeur de la Chaire Sirius, TBS Education
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Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Canterbury
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Associate Professor in Planetary Astronomy, University of Canterbury