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Most of the work being done on a national mission to launch a sovereign satellite is being kept under wraps by officials.
An RNZ request under the Official Information Act (OIA) for the key documents came up mostly empty, with ministerial briefings either largely blanked out or withheld entirely.
The government's 2024 aerospace strategy set a goal to "establish a national mission through the development, manufacture, launch and operation of one or more sovereign satellites".
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