THE AUSTRALIAN SENATE'S 2008 INQUIRY INTO THE CURRENT STATE OF AUSTRALIA'S SPACE SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY SECTOR: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EVOLUTION OF AUSTRALIAN SPACE POLICY

摘要

The Australian space science and industry sector has undergone a number of fundamental transitions in the past 50 years. The country has gone from having an active role in developing space technologies and conducting launch activities in the 1950s and 1960s to a somewhat dormant period during the 1970s and 1980s, followed by a boom of space activities with what was considered an imminent expansion of commercial launch activities in the late 1990s, coinciding with scientific and engineering projects catalysed by the Government's FedSat satellite program.