{"id":67554,"date":"2017-08-09T01:54:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/why-australia-should-follow-the-canadian-space-agencys-model\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T01:54:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:54:05","slug":"why-australia-should-follow-the-canadian-space-agencys-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/why-australia-should-follow-the-canadian-space-agencys-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Australia Should Follow the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Australia should model its proposed national space agency on the Canadian example, according to the <strong>Space Industry Association of Australia<\/strong> (SIAA). SIAA secretary Peter Nikoloff said a national space agency with clear space policies would allow Australia to find niche areas in the international arena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people mention the space agency they think of <strong>NASA<\/strong> or the <strong>European Space Agency <\/strong>(ESA), where they are doing big rocket launches and spending billions of dollars on going to other planets; but from our perspective, that\u2019s not practical in Australia to establish those sort of exploration projects,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Canadians are a good example because their population and economy is not that much bigger than Australia\u2019s but they have had a space agency for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SIAA released a white paper in March calling on the Australian government to establish a national space agency. The association had hoped for an announcement just before or during next month\u2019s International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in the South Australian capital Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>However, the announcement last month of a federal government review into the long-term plan for the sector in Australia, which will not be complete until March, means any meaningful pledge of an Australian apace agency is unlikely at next month\u2019s congress.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Canadian Space Agency<\/strong> (CSA) was formed in 1989 and is best known for its robotics technology and astronaut program. Canada\u2019s most famous robotic achievement, Canadarm, made its first trip to space in 1981 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. Canadarm2 was launched in 2001 and has played a pivotal role on the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the space sector supported more than 24,000&nbsp;jobs in Canada, which at the time had a population of about 35.5 million, compared with Australia\u2019s 23.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Nikoloff said a coordinated space agency in Australia could lead to similar success in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of that investment and involvement (in Canada), they\u2019ve been given access for an astronaut to go to the Space Station, which is a massive benefit and incentive for people to get involved in STEM subjects,\u201d he said. \u201cAlso, their robotics work in space is just as important on Earth so that investment is not just all for space exploration and exciting stuff, it\u2019s also got very good spin-offs and that\u2019s the way we\u2019ve got to think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia should model its proposed national space agency on the Canadian example, according to the Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA). SIAA secretary Peter Nikoloff said a national space agency with clear space policies would allow Australia to find niche areas in the international arena. \u201cWhen people mention the space agency they think of NASA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67556,"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-67554","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\/67554"}],"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=67554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}