When working in space, lots of attention is focused of course on the US space industry (SpaceX) and governmental agencies (NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration). On second place for me, as European, we have European Space Agency - ESA. Often we hear about India, Japan or UAE doing great things in space, but there are some other "heroes". Who? Australia for example.
Last week we heard that Australian government will finance 3 projects that will foster the cooperation of Australian and Indian companies. A total of 18 milion AUD will be sufficient for those several brilliant companies to work together, delivering very interesting satellite technologies, that will be launched (at least majority of them) with the use of Indian launchers. Great initiative and good luck LatConnect 60 Ltd, Space Machines Company and Skykraft!
Australia, because of its unique location on Earth, is also a good place to launch rockets to space (unlike majority of Europe...). Why I'm writing this? Because last week HyImpulse launched their maiden flight from Australia. Somehow I don't see a lots of media interest in that... Maybe because it didn't happen in Europe? In the end, it's kind of sad that it didn't happen in Kiruna, Andoya, Spain or any other part of the Europe which allow such launches.
We'll see what else good will happen in Australia soon. We at Scanway Space cooperate quite closely with our Australian partner AICRAFT and I'm pretty sure, than sooner than later we'll have great, big projects involving our payloads and AICRAFT's DPU's... ;)
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