Cameron Gleeson

We don't want to, you know, break too many things in space, but...

Perhaps there is an element of risk-taking where commercial operators were prepared to push boundaries that a government which, you know, couldn't necessarily afford to have a disaster like.

I remember growing up as a kid, the Challenger disaster.

You know, these sorts of things, you know, set the government space program back for years.

And what that's also done is it's enabled the government to sort of look to play catch up with Artemis II, the US government looking to go back to the moon.

So in a way, really, he has been a maverick, a pioneer, but he's enabled others to follow that vision, follow that dream.

And, you know, you tend to get a bit of cross-pollination, individuals moving from one organization to another.

So building up that institutional knowledge as to how to do this and do this effectively.

Yeah, there are a couple of companies here in Australia who do rocket launch.

So they're relatively small companies by comparison to some of the US companies.

India is a player.

We've got companies that are involved in building out alternative

internet connectivity from Europe.

But China is also going to be and is indeed a major player.

There's a lot of Chinese companies that build a lot of the componentry.

They're also looking to launch their own network or constellation of low Earth orbit satellites.

Currently, there's about 14,000 low Earth orbit satellites.

About 10,000 of them are currently Starlink, but others are growing.

And they're adopting different ways of doing things.

Is there a way you can build that constellation of satellites where you don't necessarily need as many, but potentially the technology or the approach is a little bit different?