[glend (Glen)]

As we have seen in NZ 's Rocket Lab success, there are space launch opportunities and customers, that are looking for cost effective facilities. Why is Australia not ion this space. Elon Musk is on record as saying SpaceX is looking for near equatorial launch locations, and are talking to Indonesia about island based facilities there.
The recent problems SpaceX has encountered with the Starship test launch approvals in the USA from the FAA, demonstrate a potential strategic advantage that competitors world wide could exploit. Being able to fast track launch activity, is going to be essential for commercial suborbital flights, and turn around, and Mars cargo flights are going to require multiple Starship launches within a very short launch window. Australia has time to build a Northern Territory launch facility prior to the Mars cargo flight launch window, and cement a long term role as a space facility.
Why are we not chasing this opportunity?