 Welcome, everyone, and thank you all for coming today to this exciting launch of InSpace. Before we start, I'd like to acknowledge and celebrate the first Australians on whose traditional lands we meet this morning and pay my respects to elders past, present, and emerging. I'd like to acknowledge many of the Senators and Members of Parliament who are taking time out of what we know is a very busy schedule here and I'm very pleased to welcome Senator Fawcett, Senator Carr, Senator Pratt, Richard Marles MP, Nick Champion MP, Senator Smith, Senator Patrick, and Susan Templeton MP. Thank you all for joining us. Distinguished guests, colleagues, and friends, special welcome to Minister Karen Andrews, Minister of Industry, Science, and Technology for being here today to officially launch the ANU Institute for Space in Space. Minister Andrews continues to be a strong supporter of everything, science, technology, and research at ANU and indeed across the sector and we very much appreciate your support. I'd also like to welcome our other speakers today, Professor Anna Moore, Director of our new ANU Institute for Space and the Director, she's also the Director of our Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Center, one of the crown jewels of the Australian technology scene which we host up at Mount Stromloom. Mr. James Caruso, the U.S. Chargedy Affairs, great to have you here today. And Mr. Valentin Marino Villeneuve, the Head of Arabus Defense and Spatial Australasia. Thank you, wherever you are. There we go. As Australia's National University, ANU has a unique and important role in policymaking, research, and in innovation. And so we're trying to think outside the box of how to support Australia's agenda. We have had established excellence in space technology, research, and development for decades. And we want to leverage that for the space industry for Australia to grow and prosper in the years and decades to come. Our new institute will be the front door to space activities and capabilities across the university, including technology research, development, science missions, space test facilities, commercial space law, and business and financial initiatives relating to space. Really everything you can imagine. And it's not just for ANU, it is for the nation. It will drive co-investment with industry and government partners and focus on cross-disciplinary projects and initiatives to support the Australian space business development. In space will bring together the best and brightest from ANU and the globe to solve the hard problems that need to be solved if we're going to get a space industry up and going here in Australia. This new institute builds on our commitment to establish institutes of innovation that deliver world-class research outcomes and impact for government, for civil society, and the private sector. Without further ado, I'd like to invite Minister Andrews to speak. Thank you, Kara. Thank you very much, Professor Schmidt, for the opportunity to be here this morning and for your very kind introduction. Can I also acknowledge all of the very distinguished guests who are here today and my parliamentary colleagues and in fact everyone who has come along today to support the ANU, to support the space industry, and of course to support in space. Clearly the space industry in Australia is a growing sector and you can just sense the excitement from not only our young people but from academia, from industry, in the potential that the space industry has to offer to Australia. So I'm delighted with the work that the ANU has done and will continue to do in this sector. Now the coalition government committed $41 million to establish the Australian Space Agency and since that time Professor Megan Clark has certainly hit the ground running to promote all things space here in Australia. But if we are to grow the space sector which currently sits at about $3.9 billion in Australia and employs about 10,000 people to what we are projecting will be a $12 billion industry by 2030 and employing some 20,000 people, it's essential that we engage academia and the business sector jointly work together to make sure that we are innovating, that we are conducting appropriate research and development to build and strengthen that sector. In space has a unique opportunity to be part of the growth of the sector here in Australia and I'm very confident that ANU will continue to take a leading role. I'm very supportive and very appreciative of an industry who has already engaged and I know that together the ANU and business will certainly be kicking some goals into space. Congratulations on the work that you have done so far. I wish you all the very best for the future and I am delighted that I'm part of the journey starting here today. Thank you very much. Thank you Minister Andrews and indeed we look forward to taking this journey together and with many of the great guests here. Without further ado I'd like to invite Professor Anna Moore to speak. We recruited Anna from Caltech, most of you will know that as a home of JPL although she worked in the astronomy department there. She has a long history here in Australia, it is great to have her back leading not just space but all of our instrumentation here at ANU where we are truly a world leader. Thank you everyone. It's a great honour to be director of the ANU Institute for Space. I'm very grateful to Brian and the ANU leadership for their support and vision in setting up this institute. So the goals in space are ambitious. We will be tapping into the talent across the whole university from physics and astronomy, my own area, medicine, engineering, earth sciences, all the way to law, policy and economics in business. The common theme to any of our programs is that they will be transformative. That is the only requirement. We are working with our industrial partners and our international collaborators on a range of exciting projects and they will be announced as they come online during 2019 and onwards. ANU's mission is to be the leader in Australia and to change the world and I'm very confident that in space will enable that vision and that mission in the area of Australian space. Thank you Anna and your intellectual leadership is exactly what we need to help Australia achieve what its goals are and we really appreciate you being prepared to step up to what is incredibly challenging and we hopefully a role with huge opportunities along with the challenges. It is as we have noted an international endeavour and so it's great to have two of our international representatives here and so first I'm going to have Mr. James Caruso charge the affairs of the US Embassy here in Canberra to come up and address us all. Thank you James. Thank you Brian. Great to see so many people out here for something like this. I'm a child of the 60s sitting in my cardboard space capsule watching the launch at 6 in the morning thinking I was there. This was a time that instilled confidence and hope in my generation and now we're in a new generation where companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are going to inspire the next generation to say what can I do in this new field where launch is cheaper and more possible where CubeSats can do things no one ever dreamed of and I'm so pleased that Australia just in the past year has stood up a space agency and now this great in space effort which is going to take field across human endeavour to see what can we do in space and the United States reaches out and wants to work with Australia across all this. We're having our first bilateral space dialogue at the end of the year which is going to look at this on a government to government basis and I hope university to university we can do more together as well. My embassy here is anxious to work with anyone who wants to about how we can do more together. It's an exciting time. I envy all you people younger than 30 that can see this as a future and I wish you all the best of luck in in space and off we go to the moon. Thank you. Oh and first I have to introduce my colleague Mr. Binu from Airbus, please. Good morning everybody distinguished minister and senators. Thank you for bringing me here as an industry space representative. I have to say there is no a single day when I'm not talking about space, spatial startups, launch with my Australian colleagues, Australian partners, Australian customers. Something is going on in this country. The defense department is investing a billion dollar per year during 10 years. There is a very special Australian space agency created on the 1st of July. It's the fastest growing space startup economy in the world per capita with 85 startups being created in two years. So I think what I always say to my European colleagues is space is not a best word in Australia anymore. Something is happening. We need to be here. So I truly welcome the In Space Institute, Innovation Institute initiative. It is the right thing to do to bring everything under one roof to actually give us a place to go to actually talk with academia and to hopefully create the future of the space sovereign capability of Australia and the one roof together with you. I truly believe we are working to talk when I say that not only we are an industry based on cooperation, but we are cooperating with Australia. We are the first one signing an agreement with the space agency. We are the first one investing in the smarts at CRC. We are going to launch our high altitude satellite here in West Australia at the end of November. We're really trying to find the good connections with you. I'm really excited about what you're doing. Congratulations, Anna. It's been a long process in the last couple of years, but that's going to be, I think, the beginning of a truly great story for Australia. Thank you. Thank you, Valentin, and I can certainly say it's been a pleasure working with Airbus over the last couple of years. Even before we knew we had a space agency, you've really been highly engaged. We have a whole bunch of highly engaged people here. People from all sides of the equation of what the Australian space agency is going to do. I encourage you to take a little bit of time to talk. I'm incredibly encouraged by having both sides of parliament here today. To thrive, we're going to need a decade long plan, and I am really pleased to see that Australia is coming together. And ANU will be there to help deliver. I look forward to hearing everyone's ideas. As Anna said, we need to make sure we're transformative. So think big, and we'll listen. Thank you all for coming. I encourage you to have some refreshments and look forward to seeing around and making the big leaps forward in the years to come. Thank you all.