Dr Katherine Bennell-Pegg

They produce Internet of Things, so ground-based sensors connected through satellites, which can help us find lithium and copper and gold deposits far better than we could have with traditional methods.

And that is a space company, which is finding the resources sector as the commercial customer.

We also have other examples as well.

So that's something that, yeah, you just don't usually see very often around the world.

And one of the things that we are good at.

Well, I think if we want to.

It's a matter of will.

It's not going to happen on its own, right?

To get to Mars, we have significant technological hurdles to overcome.

Right now, to get there, land and stay till the next orbital alignment and come back, you're looking at a mission of almost three years.

We don't even have enough kinds of food that could sustain humans for that long if you were to pack the food for them to go with all the right nutritional profiles, let alone being able to

We can land rockets now, but then refuel it from what exists there, take off again, radiation protect.

We're still discovering challenges with humans.

A lot of astronauts have their eyes degraded in space significantly to a point where if they were to take a mission to Mars, they might not be able to do their job when they landed because they couldn't see enough.

Wow.

So we have a lot to overcome, but in overcoming that, we'll solve a lot of challenges here on Earth.

So I think...

It could definitely happen in 25 years, but only if we focus on that as a goal and making sure that as we do that, we focus on solving them in ways that solve problems here on Earth too.

Yeah, I mean, certainly it's interesting to think about how space is impacted by these other huge disruptive factors.

Changes in technologies.