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Monday, July 21, 2008

Australia needs its own space program, think-tank says

Australia should aim to have its own space program within seven years, a new report recommends.

The latest Kokoda Paper, Skin in the Game: Realising Australia's National Interests in Space to 2025, argues that the country needs to become involved in debate on the future of space exploration, and that, to be taken seriously in that debate, needs to operate its own satellites.

The latest strategy paper from the Kokoda Foundation think-tank proposes that Australia buy two remote sensing satellites to remove the nation's reliance on those owned by others.

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