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On the same day that the Federal Government scrapped the much-touted sovereign satellite project, a local space company has been funded to test technology to explore for minerals on the Moon.
Cuts to the state's burgeoning space industry are central to talks in Canberra this week, as Defence and Space Industries Minister Susan Close meets her national counterpart over $77 million being slashed from programs in the Federal Budget.