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1947
https://industry.nt.gov.au/industries/emerging-industries/space-industry/history-of-space-in-the-territory/1947Woomera Rocket Range formally established on 1 April in South Australia. The northern boundary of the range’s north-western missile test flight corridor…
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1967
https://industry.nt.gov.au/industries/emerging-industries/space-industry/history-of-space-in-the-territory/1967Australia’s first satellite, WRESAT-1 (Weapons Research Establishment Satellite), is launched from Woomera on 29 November 1967. The satellite is Australian…
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1969
https://industry.nt.gov.au/industries/emerging-industries/space-industry/history-of-space-in-the-territory/1969The Bureau of Meteorology establishes a ground station in Darwin to receive regular weather images from NASA’s Nimbus weather satellites. Give feedback about…
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1970
https://industry.nt.gov.au/industries/emerging-industries/space-industry/history-of-space-in-the-territory/1970Joint Defence Space Research Facility Pine Gap (now Joint Defence Facility, Pine Gap) commences operations. A signals intelligence station managed jointly by…
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1974
https://industry.nt.gov.au/industries/emerging-industries/space-industry/history-of-space-in-the-territory/1974Alice Springs Ballooning Facility is established to support the launch of high altitude balloons carrying scientific instruments for upper atmosphere research…
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1977
https://industry.nt.gov.au/industries/emerging-industries/space-industry/history-of-space-in-the-territory/1977The Defence Signals Directorate (now the Australian Signals Directorate) opens a signals intelligence gathering facility at Shoal Bay, near Darwin. Give…
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1980
https://industry.nt.gov.au/industries/emerging-industries/space-industry/history-of-space-in-the-territory/1980A Landsat satellite ground station is established at Alice Springs to provide Australia direct access to data from the US Landsat series of remote sensing…
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2017
https://industry.nt.gov.au/industries/emerging-industries/space-industry/history-of-space-in-the-territory/2017Equatorial Launch Australia proposes Arnhem Space Centre, Australia’s first commercial launch facility. Arnhem Space Centre will be located just outside of the …
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2019
https://industry.nt.gov.au/industries/emerging-industries/space-industry/history-of-space-in-the-territory/2019The Centre for Appropriate Technology’s (CfAT) wholly owned commercial subsidiary CfAT Satellite Enterprises partners with global communications company Viasat …
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2020
https://industry.nt.gov.au/industries/emerging-industries/space-industry/history-of-space-in-the-territory/2020US space agency NASA plans to launch its 2020 suborbital sounding rocket campaign from Equatorial Launch Australia’s Arnhem Space Centre. Give feedback about…