That's not a rocket!
Posted on 09/25/2017 5:51:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Australian’s acting Minister of Industry, Innovation and Science was quoted as saying that Australia will not have a NASA but an agency “right for our nation, right for our industry … that will provide the vehicle for Australia to have a long-term strategic plan for space – a plan that supports the innovative application of space technologies and grows our domestic space industry, including through defense space procurement.”
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Australia has been very active in space exploration, being part of every deep-space mission NASA has flown with tracking and communications as part the Deep Space Network and the precursor system of dishes around the world. ... Additionally, the Square Kilometer Array being built in Australia, New Zealand and South America will help us answer fundamental questions in astronomy and cosmology.
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Reportedly, the plan is to double the size of Australia’s current space capacity within five years and add thousands of new jobs, while taking advantage of new technology such as cubesats.
“We have longstanding ties with NASA, exploring space together and generating all of these jobs. And that’s the key point, it is a jobs industry-first agency,” astrophysicist Alan Duffy told ABC. “It’s designed to create satellites and new uses for the images that come from those satellites, and I don’t mean giant, bus-sized satellites of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Thanks to smartphones something the size of a toaster has the same capabilities as some of these historic launches. So we get to space cheaper and we can do more when we’re there.”
Reportedly, more details of the new space agency will be announced this week during the IAC, which is a gathering of thousands of global space experts, heads of other space agencies and private companies.
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(Britain, Canada, and Italy had earlier satellites, but they were launched by the US from the US. France had launched its own on its own rocket, but from Algeria)
Modified REDSTONE which launched first US satellite, EXPLORER 1, and America’s first man in space, Alan Shephard
Oh no...australians in space?? We will never escape them now.
Vegemite in squeeze tubes.
That's not a rocket!
They’ll have to point their rockets upside down.
Freeze dried shrimp on the barbie.
Sounds like a response to Trump’s proposed Space Command.
That’s a great idea! The scale or volume doesn’t matter. Australia will do excellent work with great ingenuity and contribute greatly to its own defense and to allied defense. That’s what counts.
And I’m deeply thankful to Australia for giving its men to accompany U.S. soldiers and Marines into battle, when some of the other nations would not do the same. That should always be remembered.
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