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Submission + - White Label Space want an Aussie flag on the moon

Submitted by Dante_J on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @01:06AM

Dante_J writes: Reported In a recent news article, of the 22 Google Lunar X-Prize teams, 'White Label Space' are the only one with notable Australian contributions, and is dedicated to becoming a major player in the rapidly expanding sector of private space exploration. Mr Barton said he picked up Lunar Numbat because he was keen to "harness the latent enthusiasm and frustration of Australian people".

Comment Re:No Space Agency (Score 1) 3

by jonoxer on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @07:37PM (#27945725) Attached to: At Last, an Australian Space Agency?

Not true. By "space agency" we're not talking about financing a mission to Mars, we're just talking about a central body to act as a contact / coordination point for the various initiatives already being undertaken independently by commercial, hobbyist, and educational research groups. Ideally it would be far more than that, of course, but right now Australia doesn't have *anything* in terms of a central reference body for space science. Even if it simply meant having a small federal office somewhere with some permanent staff to provide liaison services between Australian space initiatives and overseas space agencies that would be a huge step forward from where we are now - which is nowhere.

Submission + - At Last, an Australian Space Agency? 3

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Dante_J

on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @03:27AM

Dante_J writes: "In the Australian Federal budget presented last night, as well as big national infrastructure spending, an amount of $48.6 million over four years was allocated for an "Australian Space Science Program". Normally a Space Program is managed by a Space Agency. Does this now mean that Australian will follow the recommendations of the Senate Space Science report and give up it's rather inadequate title of the only top 20 GDP nation not to have one? With nations like Vietnam, Bangladesh and Bulgaria forming or maintaining Space Agencies, this government infrastructure is obviously not limited to G-20 nations. Discussions to combine Australian and New Zealand airspace have been undertaken, should that translate to aerospace too, and both nations form an ANZAC Space Agency together?"

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