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Business
In this week’s briefcase, we travel to space aboard Rocket Lab’s “They Go Up So Fast” mission, fly over American cities with Aerometrex and land firmly in Adelaide with Leading Keyidea and Market Motion setting up in South Australia.
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News
A deal announced today between NASA and the Adelaide-based SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre could lead to emergency beacon technology developed in South Australia for the next moon missions.
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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.
The space industry is calling on the Federal Government to boost funding for the Australian Space Agency, which Prime Minister Scott Morrison this morning confirmed would be headquartered in Adelaide.
A top director at NASA will speak to Premier Steven Marshall about the potential to establish an internship program between the US space agency and South Australian universities.
The location of Australia’s new space agency will be decided during a six-month bidding war between states and territories.
Proposed changes to Australia’s space activities legislation do little to inspire confidence in the government’s approach to a commercial space industry, writes Melissa de Zwart from the University of Adelaide.
