At the International Astronautical Congress (MAC), held in Sydney this week, representatives of the United States and Australia gathered to sign a framework agreement that strengthens cooperation in the field of aeronautics and cosmos studies between the two countries.
The acting administrator NASA Sean Duffy and the head of the Australian Space Agency Enrico Palermo signed an agreement on Tuesday on behalf of their countries, respectively.
“Australia is an important and long -standing space partner, from Apollo to Artemis, and this agreement depends on this partnership,” Duffy said. “International agreements like this are working to use our resources and increase our capabilities and scientific profits for everyone, being critical of NASA from the low orbit of land to the moon, Mars and beyond its borders.”
The Australian Minister of Industry and Innovation and the Minister of Science Tim Aires said that the signing is based on more than half a century of cooperation between the two countries.
“The strengthening of Australia’s partnership with the United States and NASA creates new opportunities for Australian ideas and technologies, improving Australia’s industrial capabilities, increasing productivity and increasing economic stability,” Aires said.
Known as the “framework agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Australian government for cooperation in the field of aeronautics and exploration and the use of airspace and space for peaceful purposes,” he recognizes cooperation, which is mutually beneficial for the United States and Australia, and establishes legal framework, according to which the country will work together.
Potential areas for cooperation include space research, space science, Earth science, including geodesia, space medicine and life science, study of air names and technologies.
NASA has been cooperating with Australia in civil space since 1960, when the two countries signed their first cooperative space agreement. The Canberra Deep Space communication complex played a vital role in supporting the Apollo NASA program, especially during the Apollo 13 mission. Today this complex is one of the three global stations on the DEEP Space NES NASA network, which supports both the robotic and human space flight missions.
One of the initial signatures in artemic agreements, Australia joined the United States led by President Donald Trump and six other countries in October 2020, in support of the main set of principles for the safe and responsible use of space. Global space leaders of many of the 56 signaling countries met in IAC in Sydney this week to continue their implementation.
As part existing partnership In the Australian Space Agency, Australia is developing a semi -autonomous lunar rover, which will carry a NASA tool designed to demonstrate technology for scientific and exploration purposes. Rover plans to launch by the end of this decade on the initiative of NASA CLPS (commercial services Lunar Pailload Services).
NASA international partnerships reflect the commitment of the agency of a peaceful, joint study of space. Based on the legacy of cooperation, from space shuttle to the International Space Station, and now Artemis, international partnerships maintain NASA plans to reconnaiss the moon as part of the Artemis campaign and the future human research of Mars.
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