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NASA plans to launch 3 rockets from northern Australia

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that he will launch a NASA rocket in a month, for the first time in 27 years. Enrico Palermo, director of the Albanian and Australian Space Agency (ASA), said Wednesday that NASA’s three suborbital missiles will be launched from the Northern Territory (NT) Arnhem Space Center between June 26 … Read more

Australian science agency opens testing facility for lunar rovers

Australian science agency opens testing facility for lunar rovers

CANBERRA, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — Australia’s national science agency has opened a purpose-built facility to test technology before it is sent to the Moon. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) on Thursday opened the In-situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) Facility in Brisbane. The facility provides a Moon-like environment to test rovers and related equipment … Read more