Huge opportunity for space employment in Australia

Artists Impression of a Cubesat orbiting the earth, showing expanded solar panel arrays

Artists Impression of a Cubesat orbiting the earth, showing expanded solar panel arrays Source: BY Dr. Joon Wayn Cheong

Australia announced the establishment of the Space Agency, researchers say it will bring huge employment opportunities to Australian. In 2014 there were only two space startups in Australia, and by 2018 there were already 90. Interview with Dr. Joon Wayn Cheong, a Researcher at the University of New South Wales Space Research Center and Mr Li Binghao, a postdoctoral fellow at the Sch-Civil & Enviromental Engineering at the University of New South Wales.



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