Space exploration and satellite technology should create 20,000 new jobs in Australia by the end of the decade, Australia’s peak space exploration agency said.

Jobs will appear, not just for the fabricators and experts in composite materials who build the technology that is shot up into space, but also for more earth-bound workers, such as satellite dish installers, who will find themselves getting busier, the busier space gets, said Anthony Murfett, the deputy head of the Australian Space Agency.