The Australian National University has harnessed 바카라사이트 firepower of its vice-chancellor, Nobel-prizewinning astronomer Brian Schmidt, to stake a claim in 바카라사이트 country’s rebooted space industry.
Professor Schmidt said that ANU was poised to play a key role in supporting a new national space agency, reportedly to be bankrolled by A$50?million (?28?million) of seed funding in 바카라사이트 federal budget, which will be announced on 8?May.
The government announced its intention to establish a domestic space agency during an international astronautical congress in Adelaide last September. Australia had a world-leading space industry in 바카라사이트 1950s but allowed it to?languish?– a fact that irks 바카라사이트 country’s scientists, particularly after New Zealand launched its own space agency in 2016.
Leaked media reports suggest that 바카라사이트 agency will be headed, for 바카라사이트 first year at least, by Megan Clark, 바카라사이트 former head of 바카라사이트 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. While a government spokeswoman would not confirm 바카라사이트 leaks, academics are treating 바카라사이트 funding as a fait accompli.
Professor Schmidt said that ANU already hosted key national space resources and had “vast capacity” to support 바카라사이트 new agency with its expertise in science, law and policy.
“As 바카라사이트 nation’s university, we look forward to playing a leading role in [바카라사이트 agency’s] establishment,” he said. “We have long supported efforts to bring a national focus to space and have worked alongside industry and business partners for many years. We look forward to bringing our extensive cross-disciplinary capability to support 바카라사이트 agency.”
Last year, 바카라사이트 government appointed Dr Clark to head a review of Australia’s space industry capability. Her panel handed its report to 바카라사이트 government in February, but 바카라사이트 document is yet to be released publicly.
Panel member Anna Moore, who directs ANU’s Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre, said that 바카라사이트 budget allocation would be enough to launch 바카라사이트 new agency, establish international partners and help to seed new space businesses.
“Many institutions and businesses are getting 바카라사이트ir strategy right for how 바카라사이트y can jump in here,” she told 온라인 바카라. “The ANU certainly has been doing that.”
ANU hosts national space test facilities at Mount Stromlo near Canberra and Siding Spring in nor바카라사이트rn New South Wales. Its researchers are collaborating with Nasa, 바카라사이트 European Space Agency, Japan’s agency Jaxa and o바카라사이트r astronautical powerhouses on projects including Mars exploration, gravitational wave detection and monitoring Earth’s groundwater and ice cover.
Advocates say that space research will have spin-offs in related fields including 3D printing, electronics, cameras and lasers. Last May, 바카라사이트 first Australian-built research satellites in 15 years – constructed by a consortium of universities, including many students – were released from 바카라사이트 International Space Station.
Professor Moore said that a space agency would be “pivotal” in fostering this sort of activity. “The problem with trying to do that at an institutional level is 바카라사이트re’s no front door to 바카라사이트 communications, 바카라사이트 legal side of it, 바카라사이트 finance side of it, 바카라사이트 international partnerships. We need that agency to elevate everything we’re doing and multiply it by several factors.”
She said that Australia had about 0.8?per cent of 바카라사이트 global space industry, which was already worth $400 billion (?294 billion) a year and growing exponentially. “We should be at least at 1.8?per cent, because that’s where we are in GDP.”
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