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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday September 28 2017, @03:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the making-the-Yahoo-commercial-a-reality dept.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/government-announces-creation-of-national-space-agency-20170924-gynx3c.html

The federal government has announced that it will establish a new national agency to grow Australia's domestic space industry.

A working group chaired by former CSIRO chief Megan Clark will provide advice on the possible scope and structure of the agency to the federal government by the end of March next year.

Senator Michaelia Cash, the acting Minister of Industry, Innovation and Science, will on Tuesday tell the International Astronautical Congress that Australia will not have a NASA but an agency "right for our nation, right for our industry".

[...] The government made its announcement on the same day Labor outlined its own plans to boost Australia's space industry through the establishment of a space science and industry agency from 2020.

Opposition science spokesman Senator Kim Carr said Labor would also create a space industry innovation council and a space industry supplier advocate to bolster opportunities for investment.

"It is in Australia's national interest to build our own capabilities in these areas, not only to meet current and future needs, but also to mitigate the risk of these services becoming unavailable," he said.

[Australia's Canberra site is one of three that make up the Deep Space Network that NASA uses to communicate with spacecraft. See Deep Space Network Now for real-time information on which spacecraft each dish is communicating with. --martyb]


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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday September 28 2017, @07:14AM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday September 28 2017, @07:14AM (#574268) Journal

    This one announces a group to work out the feasibility of a space agency.
    Also, this one will cost something.

    Next time, they will create a Senate Committee to work out what to call it, and then they will announce they will put the headquarters it in which ever electorate needs the most pork-barrelling..
    And still there will be no acutual agency.

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