Australians pay for, rely on and use satellites in everyday life: weather reports, surf reports, GPS, ATMs/banking, earth observation for farmers, bushfire monitoring, coastal monitoring, ocean protection, outback communication, many apps in your phone, live news, live sport on TV. All of this is space. Yet Australia remains the only developed country without a national Space Agency, which could leverage partnerships with other space agencies to drastically lower the cost of satellite data access and create a new industry in Australia that would be sustained into the far future. Watch the full presentation at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUjg-xtbes More info at: https://quokkaspace.wordpress.com/

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AdvancingAustralia in Space

2.  Satellites
 Weather
 GPS
 Farms
 Vineyards
 Bushfire/Flood Monitoring
 Mining Operations
 Outback Communication
 ATMs/Banking
 Border Control
 The Surf Report
Australia +Territories + Oceans = 1/6th of the Earth

3. AFRICA
 Algeria
 Egypt
 Ethiopia
 Morocco
 Nigeria
 South Africa
SOUTH AMERICA
 Argentina
 Bolivia
 Brazil
 Peru
 Uruguay
 Venezuela
EUROPE
 ESA
 Austria
 Belarus
 Belgium
 Croatia
 Czech Republic
 Denmark
 France
 Germany
 Greece
 Hungary
 Lithuania
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Poland
 Portugal
 Romania
 Russia
 Spain
 Sweden
 Switzerland
 Ukraine
 UK
MIDDLE EAST
 Bahrain
 UAE
 Iran
 Israel
 Saudi Arabia
ASIA
 Bangladesh
 China
 India
 Indonesia
 Japan
 Kazakhstan
 Korea
 Malaysia
 Mongolia
 North Korea
 Pakistan
 Philippines
 Singapore
 Sri Lanka
 Thailand
 Turkmenistan
 Uzbekistan
 Vietnam
NORTH AMERICA
 Canada
 Mexico
 USA
OCEANIA
 New Zealand

4.  AUSTRALIA
 AUSTRIA
 BELGIUM
 CANADA
 CHILE
 CZECH REPUBLIC
 DENMARK
 ESTONIA
 FINLAND
 FRANCE
 GERMANY
 GREECE
 HUNGARY
 ICELAND
 IRELAND
 ISRAEL
 ITALY
 JAPAN
 KOREA
 LATVIA
 LUXEMBOURG
 MEXICO
 NETHERLANDS
 NEW ZEALAND
 NORWAY
 POLAND
 PORTUGAL
 SLOVAK REPUBLIC
 SLOVENIA
 SPAIN
 SWEDEN
 SWITZERLAND
 TURKEY
 UNITED KINGDOM
 UNITED STATES

5.  AUSTRIA
 BELGIUM
 CANADA
 CHILE
 CZECH REPUBLIC
 DENMARK
 ESTONIA
 FINLAND
 FRANCE
 GERMANY
 GREECE
 HUNGARY
 ICELAND (in development, 2016)
 IRELAND
 ISRAEL
 ITALY
 JAPAN
 KOREA
 LATVIA
 LUXEMBOURG
 MEXICO
 NETHERLANDS
 NEW ZEALAND
 NORWAY
 POLAND
 PORTUGAL
 SLOVAK REPUBLIC
 SLOVENIA
 SPAIN
 SWEDEN
 SWITZERLAND
 TURKEY
 UNITED KINGDOM
 UNITED STATES

6.  AUSTRALIA

7.  Founded 2016
 Rocketlab Launch 25th May 2017

8.  1947:Woomera established by the UK to
trackV2 rocket and launch (UK/USA/ELDO)
 1964Tidbinbilla (NASA) + others
 1967WRESAT (Australia)
 1969 JDFN -> Pine Gap (current)
 1970 OSCAR (Australia Student)
 1971 Final Launch fromWoomera (UK)
 1980s Australian SpaceOffice
 1990s Many launch companies (1999 all bankrupt)

9.  1990s Optus Satellites (built by USA)
 1992 Australian Govt Expert Panel
  1994 Australian Space Council Act (repealed 1999)
 1996 Australian Space Office
 1998 Space ActivitiesAct
 1998 CRC for Satellite Systems
 1998 IAC Melbourne
 2001 Space Activities Regulations (supplement)
 2001 Australian Govt $101m investment
 2002 Fedsat

10.  2003 ESA’s New Norcia opened
 2005 Senator’s Space Policy Advisory Group
  2008 Space Senate Inquiry & Report
  2009-2013 ASRP Grants
 2010 Hyabusa Landing (near Glendambo)
 2010 Bid starts for IAC
 2011 ACMA Embargo49
 2011 Principles for National Space Industry Policy
 2011 AITC
 2011 QB50 work starts
 2012 SKA
 2013 Australia’s Satellite Utilisation Policy

11.  2014Won IAC2017
 2015 NBN1
 2015 Several Federal Govt Space Meetings
 2015 SpaceActivitiesAct 1998 reviewed
 2016 DefenceSA Space Division established
 2016 SA State Govt wants to be space hub
 2016 NSW State Govt wants to be space hub
 2016 ACT State Govt wants to be space hub
 2016 NBN2
 2017 5 Aussie teams in ZeroG Robotics
 2017 Federal Parliament Space Science
 2017 $10m investments in new space fromVC
 September 2017: IAC

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13.  Ad Hoc in the 1950s/60s
 Australian Space Office 1980s
 ASRP 2009-2013
 Australia remains a 100% import space
economy
 Fully dependent on other country’s satellite data
 NBN x2 and Optus x2 are USA built / maintained

14. The AustralianGovernment is the largest customer of space-derived
information and so has most to gain from cheaper, more secure domestic
services
Civil Space is an obscure hidden department currently under:
 Department of Industry Innovation and Science
 Industry
▪ Space Coordination Office
 Previously: Department of Industry
 Previously: Department of Education andTraining
 Previously: Department of Industry Innovation,Climate Change, Science,
Research andTertiary Education
 Previously: Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and
Tertiary Education
 Previously: Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
 Previously: Department of Industry,Tourism and Resources
 Previously: Department of Industry, Science and Resources
 Previously: Department of Science, Industry andTourism
 Previously: …… (2001…)

15. FEDERALGOVERNMENT
 Department of Industry, Innovation
and Science
 Department of the Environment and
Energy
 Australian Fisheries Management
Authority
 Climate Change Authority
 National Offshore Petroleum Safety and
Environmental Management Authority
 Department of Agriculture andWater
Resources
 Northern Land Council
 Parks Australia
 Rural Industries Research and
Development Corporation
 Department of Immigration and
Border Protection
 Australian Border Force
 Department of Infrastructure and
Regional Development
 Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organisation
 Geoscience Australia
 Bureau of Meteorology
 Civil Aviation Safety Authority
 NBN Co
(The Department of Defence, Defence
Materiel Organisation and Defence Science
andTechnology Group are not in the scope
of a Civil Space Agency and continue to
have their own budget/agendas
STATE GOVERNMENT
 SA GIS
 WA GIS
 VIC GIS
 ACT GIS
 NSW GIS
 QLD GIS

16.  $200 million: What we pay
 $18 million: What we could pay for shared access
 Space industry sector
 $350 billion / year
 Growth rates of 10.7% per annum
 VC Investment in Space in 2015 alone was equal to
2000-2014 combined
 Australian Space Agency in 2017  5,000 new high-
tech jobs + annual exports of $3 billion by 2025

17. Australia
could function
fully with
US$14m

18.  For Australia, outer space is about achieving our national
needs better, cheaper and more effectively, using
satellites.
 As the sixth largest landmass in the world, there are many
strategic reasons to rely on satellites: national security,
finance, agriculture and communication all have critical
requirements in satellite imagery, SATCOM and GPS
navigation.
 However, Australia is currently missing out on, and will
continue to miss out on, opportunities in the absence of a
national framework to support international engagement
and domestic self-reliance in this global sector.

19.  ImplementationArm of the National Space
Policy: Satellite Utilisation Policy 2013
The Role of Government
 Key elements of a national space framework
include:
 National priority setting
 Formal treaty-level International engagement

20.  Creation
 Authority
 Mandate
 TechnicalCompetence
 5 year budget
 10 year InternationalAgreements
 Survives a Change of Government

21.  Every space agency and company in the world will be in
Australia in September 2017 for the IAC.
 A federal space agency is required to tap into the global supply
chain, foster an Australian export market, employ local talent,
create jobs and create a new manufacturing sector.
 Several space agencies are ready to sign bilateral agreements
and provide capacity building, knowledge transfer, technology
transfer and make purchase orders for Australian products.
 Legally this cannot be done without a Federal Space Agency
which has a mandate, authority and technical competence.