{"id":61499,"date":"2019-09-23T21:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/australia-joins-nasa-in-lunar-exploration-and-beyond\/"},"modified":"2019-09-23T21:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:57:50","slug":"australia-joins-nasa-in-lunar-exploration-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/australia-joins-nasa-in-lunar-exploration-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Joins NASA in Lunar Exploration and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison revealed his nation\u2019s intention to join the United States\u2019 Moon to Mars exploration approach, including <strong>NASA\u2019<\/strong>s Artemis lunar program. The statement foresees potential Australian contributions in areas of mutual interest such as robotics, automation, and remote asset management \u2013 similar to that currently used by Australia in mining operations. As part of Australia\u2019s commitment to partner with NASA, Morrison pledged to more than triple the <strong>Australian Space Agency<\/strong> budget to support Artemis and Moon to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are honored by today\u2019s statement and the commitment of our friends from Australia to support us in our mission to return to the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program,\u201d Morhard said. \u201cThe strong relationship between NASA and the Australian Space Agency affirms NASA\u2019s commitment to establish sustainable exploration with our commercial and international partners by 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the Australian Space Agency is relatively new, established a little over a year ago, Australia has a long tradition of working closely with the U.S. in space activities. A formal agreement between NASA and the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) signed in 1960 allows for tracking and communication of NASA missions through the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) at Tidbinbilla, as well as the Data Relay Satellite facilities in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, and Dongara, Western Australia. The CDSCC serves as an integral component of NASA\u2019s Deep Space Network.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison revealed his nation\u2019s intention to join the United States\u2019 Moon to Mars exploration approach, including NASA\u2019s Artemis lunar program. The statement foresees potential Australian contributions in areas of mutual interest such as robotics, automation, and remote asset management \u2013 similar to that currently used by Australia in mining operations. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}