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24-692: ILEWG was founded by several space agencies: Australian Space Agency (ASA), Italian Space Agency (ASI), British BNSC , French CNES , German Aerospace Center , ESA , ISAS, NASA , Japanese NASDA , Roskosmos . ILEWG has been organising since 1994 the ICEUM International Conferences on Exploration & Utilisation of the Moon with published proceedings, and where community declarations have been prepared and endorsed by community participants. ILEWG has co-organised and co-sponsored lunar sessions at EGU, COSPAR, EPSC. The 8th gathering

48-779: A 15-year period of robotic operations before crewed missions. Robots would pilot in-situ resource utilisation and construct habitation for later crew. As part of research efforts towards the colonization of Moon and eventually, the colonization of Mars , ILEWG founded the EuroMoonMars initiative, which comprises field campaigns in Moon-Mars analogue environments. The EuroMoonMars field campaigns have been organised in specific locations of technical, scientific and exploration interest. The campaigns started with EuroGeoMars2009 (Utah MDRS , 24 Jan-1 Mar 2009) with ILEWG, ESA ESTEC , NASA Ames , VU Amsterdam and GWU . Currently, ILEWG

72-665: A rover that will be sent to the moon by 2026. In March 2022, the ASA and the University of Adelaide stated that they would collaborate on Mars exploration. The agency has, beginning 2023, a working relationship with Space Centre Australia , which aims to develop launch facilities in Cape York Peninsula . In November 2022 the agency partnered with Fugro to open the Fugro SpAARC spacecraft control centre. SpAARC

96-514: A seat in the federal cabinet and leading its respective portfolio area: There are 171 principal entities other than the cabinet departments. These government agencies are classified by the Australian Government Organisations Register as either a non-corporate Commonwealth entity, a corporate Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth company. On 18 September 2013 an Administrative Arrangements Order

120-705: A sovereign-owned agency, if not with sovereign launch facilities in the short term, was being made by think tanks such as Australian Strategic Policy Institute . On 25 September 2017, at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide , Senator Simon Birmingham announced that the Australian Government intended to create a national space agency following an expert reference group investigation led by Megan Clark , former chief executive of CSIRO . As part of

144-557: Is also located on site. As of 2008, Australia was the only OECD country without a space agency other than Iceland , with the preceding National Space Program and Australian Space Office (ASO) having been disbanded by the federal government in 1996. A government report from the Australian Senate Standing Committee on Economics noted that Australia was "missing out on opportunities" and recommended that an agency immediately be developed. In 2009,

168-682: Is an agency of the Australian Government responsible for the development of Australia's commercial aerospace industry , coordinating domestic space activities, identifying opportunities and facilitating international engagement that includes Australian stakeholders. Its headquarters, opened in February 2020, are located in Lot Fourteen in Adelaide , the capital of South Australia . The Australian Space Discovery Centre , which features exhibits and public information sessions,

192-774: Is collaborating with the International Moonbase Alliance (IMA) and the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) on a series of EuroMoonMars, IMA and HI-SEAS (EMMIHS) campaigns, at the HI-SEAS analogue facilities in Hawaii. The Hawaii - Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) habitat is located at 8,200’ (2,500 meters) in elevation and IMA's founder, Henk Rogers , is its owner. As of 2018, IMA, an organization dedicated to building sustainable settlements on

216-582: Is located in Perth , Australia. The Australian Space Agency is located in the McEwin Building on Lot Fourteen , a technology hub in Adelaide city centre . The Australian Space Discovery Centre is co-located with the agency. A new sculpture by Sundari Carmody, entitled One: all that we can see , was unveiled in June 2022. This is a 4 m (13 ft)-wide steel tubular ring, with LED lighting at

240-488: Is the first ESA Lab inter-University demonstrator project, and is hosted by the Swiss Space Centre (SSC) with the vision to create an analogue habitat inside lunar ice caps. The campaigns were held from 17 to 30 June 2019 and involved 18 student teams from 9 countries across Europe. The students developed modular demonstrators and tested them during a field test conducted inside the moon-like extreme environment of

264-592: The Australian Government's 2018 budget announcement, AU$ 26 million in seed funding over four years from 2018 was included to establish the Australian Space Agency, with a further AU$ 15 million for international space investment starting from 2019. The budget was criticised for being inadequate by private Australian space companies including Delta-V and Gilmour Space Technologies , and space archaeologist Alice Gorman noted that low-budget attempts at starting an Australian space agency had failed in

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288-543: The federal parliament , appointed by the governor-general on the advice of the prime minister . As of December 2023, there are 1,334 government entities reportable to the Australian Government Organisations Register. This includes: Principal entities are Australian Government entities that are defined in the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2011 as either a: The Australian Government comprises 20 portfolio departments, each representing

312-1016: The Glacier Palace inside the Matterhorn glacier . Support: Foing, Ehrenfreund, Elsaesser, Rammos, Rodrigues, Direito, Roling Support @ESTEC/Mission control: Foing, Lillo, Authier, Blanc et al. Support: 4th Planet Logistics Support: BluePlanet: Ponthieux, Cox et al. Support: BluePlanet: Foing, Ponthieux, Cox, Rogers Crew: de Winter, Heemskerk, Albers, Clement, Bois, Daeter, Vaessen, Glukhova, Sitnikova, Dimova, Wanske, van der Sanden, Foing Support: Kruijver, Dingemans, Beentjes, Korthouwer, Moritz, Grosjean et al. Support: BluePlanet: Cox et al., support@ESTEC/VUA: Ageli, Foing, Heemskerk, Beniest, Sitnikova, Preusterink Support: BluePlanet & ESTEC/VUA Support: BluePlanet & ESTEC/VUA Crew II: Cardinaux, Smith, Christianen Mission Control: Pouwels, Heemskerk, Kerber, Weert, Downes Australian Space Agency The Australian Space Agency

336-534: The Moon, has been organising regular simulated missions to the Moon, Mars or other planetary bodies at HI-SEAS. Dr. Michaela Musilova is the Director of HI-SEAS and she also takes part in missions as a Crew Commander, Flights Director or CAPCOM. The EuroMoonMars campaigns consist of research activities for data analysis, instruments tests and development, field tests in Moon-Mars analogues, pilot projects, training and hands-on workshops and outreach activities. IgLuna

360-916: The Space Policy Unit funded the Australian Space Research Program over three years. It led to an accessible Landsat satellite imagery archive and the development and testing of a scramjet launcher. On 16 September 2016, Andrea Boyd, an Australian working as a flight operations engineer for the International Space Station (ISS) in Cologne , Germany, delivered an address at the Global Access Partners Summit in Parliament House, Sydney , urging Australia to grasp

384-464: The agency is titled the Head. List of Australian Government entities [REDACTED] [REDACTED] This list of Australian Government entities includes ministerial departments, principal entities, secondary entities, and other entities, which are grouped into a number of areas of portfolio responsibility. Each portfolio is led by one or more government ministers who are members of

408-544: The commercial opportunities of the new space market and protect its national sovereignty by establishing a national space agency. In response, a taskforce was gathered, which led to the establishment of the Expert Reference Group, co-funded by the federal Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. Chaired by former head of CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark , it gathered recommendations from aerospace experts including Professor Russell Boyce, Professor Steven Freeland,

432-662: The election of the Turnbull government , the Department of the Environment was renamed, with effect from 19 July 2016: Some departments were renamed, with effect from 20 December 2017: Following the election of the Morrison government , five departments were renamed, with effect from 29 May 2019: The number of departments were cut from 18 to 14, with effect from 1 February 2020: The new Albanese Government made

456-418: The past. On 14 May 2018, Senator Michaelia Cash officially announced the launch of the Australian Space Agency, identifying 1 July 2018 as the commencement date of the agency, with Megan Clark as the inaugural head of the agency for at least the first year. Prime Minister Scott Morrison later announced that Adelaide would become home to the Australian Space Agency. It would be located at Lot Fourteen ,

480-463: The site of the former Royal Adelaide Hospital , near the north-eastern corner of Adelaide city centre , in 2019. The agency opened its office on 19 February 2020. It aims to triple the size of the Australian space industry and create 20,000 new jobs by 2030. On 13 October 2021, the Australian Government announced an agreement with NASA whereby Australian researchers and scientists would build

504-493: The space administrator Dr David Williams and Dr Jason Held, founder of Saber Astronautics . It recommended the creation of a commercially focused Australian space agency and delivered its report to the Australian Government in August 2017. By 2017, Australian facilities were playing a critical role in 40 space missions of other nations, from deep space explorers, to Mars rovers, to astronomical space observatories. The case for

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528-584: The top. The work was commissioned by Lot Fourteen, and is located in front of the Australian Space Discovery Centre. The Agency has six primary responsibilities: The Australian Space Agency differentiates itself from other national space programs in its stated focus on private development and businesses rather than state driven operations (contrasting with NASA and the European Space Agency ). The leader of

552-738: Was held on July 23–27, 2006, in Beijing, China, and agreed on the new Lunar Beijing Declaration. ILEWG Executive Director:  Prof. Bernard Foing (ILEWG Past-President, 1998 - 2000) ILEWG Vice-presidents: Prof. Tai Sik Lee (2016 - current), Prof. Jacques Blamont (2010 - 2016), Dr. Simonetta di Pippo (2006 – 2008), Dr Robert Richards (2005 - 2007) ILEWG Past-Presidents : Dr. Michael Wargo (2008 - 2010), Prof. Wu Ji (2006 - 2008), Prof. Narendra Bhandari (2004 - 2006), Prof Carle Pieters (2002 – 2004), Prof Mike Duke (2000-2002), Prof Bernard Foing (1998 – 2000), Acad. Erik Galimov (1996 – 1998), Dr Hitoshi Mizutani The roadmap or timeline envisaged includes

576-655: Was issued by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister Tony Abbott which replaced the previous Order of 14 September 2010 issued by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Gillard government . The Order formed or re-confirmed government departments, as follows: Following the appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister, three departments were renamed, with effect from 21 September 2015: Following

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