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Yeah, wish Australia would take a more active role in space exploration.
by robryan 14y ago
Yeah, wish Australia would take a more active role in space exploration.
- flgb 14y agoSome of the tracking stations for the project are in Australia, including the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex. Perhaps it's a small contribution but Australia is definitely involved.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoAccording to some tweets I saw, the first images back came through Canberra.
- petitmiam 14y agoTime for a sequel to 'The Dish'.
- robryan 14y agoYeah, I am more talking about putting up some real money towards these missions. We are a rich first world country, would love to see the American space budget cuts made up for more internationally, especially on the science based robotic missions and space telescopes. I would imagine that a lot of the communications stuff has a lot to do with geography and would probably happen without Australian government funding.
- yitchelle 14y agoAustralia has always been a backend operator. Similar for NASA other missions. It has provided the third contact point for when earth spins around which puts the other two contacts point out of reach.
- pilsetnieks 14y agoThey even did a movie about it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/
- yitchelle 14y agoVisited the Parkes telescope about 12mths after the movie launched, and can totally understand playing cricket on that surface. Ideal shape for playing cricket with only a batsman and a bowler. Sorry had to drop a cricket reference here...