Funding basic research will fuel discoveries, with Phil Bland
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Without funding for basic research, many space workers are out of jobs.
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On this\\xa0week\\u2019s episode of Space Connect Podcast,\\xa0host Bella Richards is joined\\xa0by\\xa0Professor Phil Bland from Curtin University, who is also the director of the Space Science and Technology Centre\\xa0(SSTC).\\xa0
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Professor Bland reveals that Australia needs to aim higher in funding basic research to make more discoveries, send more homegrown spacecraft into orbit, and to keep people in their jobs.\\xa0
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Bella and Phil also chat about Curtin\\u2019s Binar-1 launch last year, the challenges that came with it, and how it proved that Australia does have all the space capabilities.
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