The ABC in this article is reporting that RMIT is holding discussions with the Russian Federal Space Agency about the possibility of building two space tracking centres in Australia.
In particular, the centres would involve a "Space mission control centre" and a "near earth object space observation centre" that would allow asteroid tracking in the southern hemisphere.
Australia is one of only a handful of southern hemisphere countries that are well placed to host facilities for Northern Hemisphere Countries who need southern hemisphere coverage. Such facilities represent a nice leveraging of investment for the Australian government to gain advanced space facilities and form long term partnerships with international Space Agencies.
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