The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
According to Space.com, NASA Altair project manager Lauri Hansen stated, “Altair is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and is the twelfth brightest star in the night sky. The word 'Altair' finds its origins in Arabic and is derived from a phrase that means 'the flying one’. In Latin, 'Aquila' means Eagle, tying our new lander to the historic Apollo 11 Eagle."
Hansen, of course, was referring to the first human landing on the Moon, of Apollo 11, on July 20, 1969. At that time, the first words on the surface of the Moon came from Neil Armstrong who said, “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
The Altair project’s triangular shaped logo takes much of its features from the Apollo 11 patch.
Both patches show a bald eagle holding an olive branch in its talons. The Altair version spells out the name “Altair” at the bottom. Ten stars appear in the background of the logo, each representing one of the ten NASA centers participating with the United States quest to return humans to our closest neighbor, the Moon.
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