Tag: space agency

Just $26m for new space agency

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will provide just $26 million over four years to establish Australia’s first national space agency, despite high-profile industry leaders saying it would need at least double...

Space industry on a promise

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government is expected to provide $50 million to the national space agency in this week’s budget, but one of the country’s most vocal and active space industry...

Labor’s big fat space promise

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Federal Labor has unveiled a $35 million policy package to support the burgeoning Australian space sector, with a goal to double the size of the industry in five years....

States vie for space agency pie

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Competition between states to host the proposed Australian space agency is heating up, with a number of governments already putting their cases forward to the Commonwealth for consideration. The...

Suddenly space is really, really big

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The US famously went from nowhere to the moon in ten years, so maybe Australia can get a space agency up and running in three times that time period....

Is gov’t space review redundant?

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Another federal government review of Australia’s space industry has been slammed by sections of the industry and Federal Labor as “redundant” and “too little, too late” for the local...