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Business
In this week’s briefcase, Endeavour Group buys the Empire Hotel in Kilburn, KI Spirits launches its new distillery and Maggie Beer Holdings announces a $5.5 million half-year profit.
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News
For the second time this week, an Australian space company has been forced to abort a scheduled launch of a test rocket from the Eyre Peninsula – this time due to a last minute systems fault.
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Environmentalists are calling on the State Government to order an independent review into alternate sites for a rocket launchpad facility, as a company today launches its first test rocket from the Eyre Peninsula conservation zone it hopes to make a permanent base.
Three test rockets are set to be launched from an Eyre Peninsula conservation zone within months, after the company behind the launchpad complex secured a licence from the Australian Space Agency.
SA Senator Rex Patrick has delivered a withering critique of the Adelaide-based Australian Space Agency, accusing it of “putting Australian economic activity and jobs at risk” by bureaucratic inertia.
Lloyd Damp is preparing to build Australia’s first commercial rocket launch pad – just south of Port Lincoln. He sat down with InDaily to discuss his ambitions for this state’s burgeoning space industry, from small-scale satellites to mining water on the Moon.
