00:00 3, 2, 1, go!
00:07 Yeah!
00:10 Rockets fired from the territory could become as frequent as one a week
00:14 if a space company's mission to expand its Arnhem Space Centre
00:18 is approved for take-off.
00:20 This is a super exciting project.
00:22 Transforming this red dirt rocket site into a proposed 14 launch pads
00:26 as well as mission support buildings and fuel facilities
00:30 across 300 hectares of former mining land
00:32 leased from the Gommach traditional owners of East Arnhem Land.
00:36 Equatorial Launch Australia has lodged its expansion plans
00:39 with the NT Environment Authority.
00:42 In its application, it says the Arnhem Space Centre is intended
00:45 to be the pre-eminent multi-user commercial space launch site
00:49 in the Southern Hemisphere,
00:51 providing world-class equatorial spaceport services.
00:55 It will support test, launch and recovery of space vehicles and payloads
01:00 flown to and from all space orbits.
01:03 The government backing its vision for the future.
01:06 This project, the Prime Minister was talking with the President
01:09 on the lawns of the White House just a couple of weeks ago
01:11 about a project within the Northern Territory.
01:14 The company pledges it's doing the groundwork to consult
01:17 prior to any construction, but the local MLA says any expansion
01:21 needs to include each of the Gove Peninsula's 13 clans,
01:25 if it's ever to go ahead.
01:27 People in the region must have clear information
01:29 and be given the opportunity to discuss proposals together
01:32 and engage in traditional decision-making processes.
01:36 The company's already getting ready to launch
01:38 even before its planned expansion,
01:40 with a South Korean company lined up to start firing satellites
01:44 from the site from as soon as 2024.
01:47 24.
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