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Flying blind: What if Australia loses access to vital satellite data?
Tuesday February 16, 2021
Satellites owned and operated by other countries, including China, provide the data needed for Australia to monitor the weather, natural disasters and the environment.
This Bureau of Meteorology image relies on satellite data from the Japan Meteorological Agency and NASA.
A federal parliamentary inquiry into the prospects of Australia developing a space industry has heard increasingly urgent calls for a sovereign satellite capability.
The Bureau of Meteorology has been relying on Earth observations from space for several decades, and currently assimilates…
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