Space technologies and services touch virtually everysector of the Australian economy. When positioned alongside other core industries like manufacturing, resources and agriculture, space is also an enabler of industry growth and will help Australia’s economy emerge out of the COVID-19.
In acknowledgement of this, the Australian Government launched the Advancing space: Australian civil space strategy 2019-2028 in 2019 to provide a long-term framework to grow and transform the national civil space sector. The strategy identifies seven national civil space priority areas and the importance of developing technical roadmaps for each priority area. The priority areas are:
- position, navigation and timing
- earth observation
- communications technologies and services
- space situational awareness and debris monitoring
- leapfrog research and development
- robotics and automation on earth and in space
- access to space.
It's been one year since the Australian Space Agency (ASA) released the the first technical roadmap of the series; the communication technologies and services roadmap 2021-2030 and to commemorate the occasion, the Australian Space Agency has released a first anniversary video. In the video, ASA joins a cast of industry partners to look at how the roadmap is supporting the growth of the Australian space sector.
If you would like to find out more about the roadmap, go to the Australian Government's Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources website.