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“#Why outer space matters in a post-pandemic world<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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With all of the immense challenges we face on Earth this year, space can feel like an afterthought.<\/p>\n

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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the hope of a growing space industry was palpable. Ribbons were cut, buildings were dedicated and Australia’s space industry was going to trip<\/a>le in size in just ten years. But a few weeks into March, Europe and then Australia were slowly grinding to a halt as the reality of COVID-19 set in. <\/p>\n

Satellite images from ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in space showed the extent to which the virus lockdown was affecting major cities.
\nNext came the dramatic global economic downturn that seemed certain to crush Australia’s space ambitions. Consultants began sending a flurry of email surveys to see how everyone in the industry was coping. How would this change the future of our nation’s newest dream?
\nSuddenly, space is everywhere<\/b>
\nWork in the space industry has always continued even under the most difficult circumstances. Missions take years to plan and launch. The global space industry has, out of necessity, always embraced uncertainty. Innovation will not stop. International cooperation is still strong. Missions are continuing.
\nIt was just announced that the European Union is signing a billion-euro agreement with French global launch services company Arianespace, with the hope of injecting another 16 billion euros into the European space industry by 2027. This is big news<\/a> for Australia’s space industry too. Our history with Arianespace goes back to its predecessor, which launched the Europa rocket for the first time ever in South Australia in 1964.
\nNASA and SpaceX are making headlines for the first trip to the International Space Station in a commercially built and operated American spacecraft with astronauts on board. China’s space program is rapidly developing and an upcoming mission could make it the second country to land and operate a spacecraft on Mars.<\/p>\n

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\n Air pollution plummeted as countries went into lockdown. Credit: ESA
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Australia’s space capabilities<\/b><\/p>\n

In this multinational mix, Australia has much to offer. We are currently leaders in advanced and quantum communication that would make deep space communication possible, as well as creating unhackable communications on Earth.
\nOur government has taken steps to realize these opportunities through its first round of funding to accelerate the industry and galvanize the future of our space agency.
\nTen strategic space projects just received government funding to help Australia build relationships with other international space agencies. In defense funding announcements last week, space was highlighted as one of the five defense domains for a strong Australian Defense Force.
\nA quick recovery<\/b>
\nWe are now seeing some amazing post-COVID wins for Australia. Planet Innovation, a Melbourne-based company, was the only Australian manufacturer to be chosen by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to make an innovative COVID ventilator. More than 300 companies around the world app<\/a>lied for the opportunity.
\nSpaceX chief Elon Musk suggested Hobart-based boat builder, Incat, could help build “floating, superheavy-class space ports for Mars, Moon and hypersonic travel around the Earth.” Fleet Space Technologies and Oz Minerals were just awarded a grant to use space technology<\/a> in mineral exploration.
\nA few weeks ago, the Australian National University National Space Test Facility (NSTF) was the first non-COVID research facility at the university to reopen. Its first project was testing a piece of space equipment created by Australian company Gilmour Space Technologies that will fly on an Australian space mission in 2022. <\/p>\n

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\n The first test flight of a Europa-1 first stage rocket, a repurposed British Blue Streak missile, from Woomera, Australia, 5 June 1964. Credit: ESA
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Next, the NSTF team performed testing for Fleet Space Technologies, who drove their components from Adelaide to Canberra as there were no connecting flights. The NSTF has been continuously testing other space components for Australian missions since it reopened.
\nThese are all hard-won successes in the face of COVID, and they speak volumes about the promise of Australia’s space industry.
\nSpace will help Australia recover<\/b>
\nOur space industry also enables others. Space technologies are transferrable to Earth-bound sectors such as health and mining, and the industry helps economic recovery because it operates at many scales from small research projects to large multi-disciplinary initiatives.
\nOur nation is set to give rise to bespoke satellites that are proprietary to Australia. We will have our own satellite constellations to address critical issues like drought, water quality management and bushfires.
\nOur innovation will protect our sovereignty, and global space industry titans like NASA can see our promise with missions like Artemis: Moon to Mars.
\nAustralia’s space industry began in uncertainty, and\u2014despite bushfires, pandemics and massive change\u2014it will succeed under uncertainty.<\/p>\n

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