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The big global space agencies rely on Australia – let's turn that to our advantage

  • Written by Simon Driver, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Western Australia
The big global space agencies rely on Australia – let's turn that to our advantageThe 35 m-diameter dish antenna of ESA’s deep-space tracking station at New Norcia, Western Australia. europeanspaceagency/flickr , CC BY

In the conversation around Australia’s space agency, the brand leaders – the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) – have had...