{"id":291522,"date":"2021-08-30T01:04:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T01:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationaus.com\/?p=21735"},"modified":"2021-08-30T01:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T01:04:49","slug":"time-to-make-australian-space-agency-permanent-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/30\/time-to-make-australian-space-agency-permanent-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to make Australian space agency permanent: Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Australian Space Agency should<\/strong> be made a permanent statutory authority and be given funding that is more in line with comparable countries like Canada, the head of Australia’s space industry association says.<\/p>\n NASA’s budget for the 2021 financial year is $US23.3 billion ($A31.89b), while Canada’s is<\/a> $CA403.6 million ($A437m). Meanwhile, the Australian Space Agency’s budget has varied between $5.7m and $13.7m since 2018, with a total of $41 million allocated over the past four years excluding industry grant programs.<\/p>\n