Australia's Northern Territory is ideally placed to host key infrastructure and services for the global space industry, with competitive advantages:
- Launch services of space vehicles to all orbits
- ground stations
- and the launch and recovery of high altitude pseudo satellites (HAPS)
These major space organisations have already recognised the Territory’s competitive advantages:
- Equatorial Launch Australia operating a commercial launch facility, the Arnhem Space Centre, from Nhulunbuy
- NASA launching a sounding rocket campaign from the Arnhem Space Centre in June/July 2022, its first from a commercial spaceport outside the US
- The HAPS Alliance acknowledging that the Territory’s conducive weather conditions and close proximity to key markets are strategic advantages for HAPS operators
- NASA, JAXA and CNES launching scientific high altitude balloon campaigns from the Alice Springs Ballooning Facility since the 1970s
- Geoscience Australia housing its ground station, that forms part of the Landsat Network, in Alice Springs
- Viasat constructing two commercial ground stations in Alice Springs to expand its Real-Time Earth Network
- ArianeGroup installing an optical telescope in Alice Springs to extend its GeoTracker space situation awareness network
- OneWeb has established its NT gateway site consisting of 14 antenna just outside of Darwin
- LeoLabs selecting Arnhem Land as its preferred location for their Northern Australia Radar
