Sky trackers

Australia, 1990

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It started as innocent fun and turned into an adventure of galactic proportions! Ali (Maia Brewton) lives on a NASA Satellite Tracking Station where her Mum (Pamela Sue Martin) works as a space scientist. A computer whiz, Ali spends her spare time hacking into the station’s mainframe to record her personal diary. One evening while hacking into the computer she discovers a runaway satellite is out of control and heading straight for Earth and is likely to crash nearby. What she doesn’t know is that the satellite contains a load of deadly cargo, so dangerous it threatens the safety of the entire world…

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Credits

director

John Power

producer

Anthony Buckley

production company

Australian Children's Television Foundation

Duration

01:32:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1990

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

305357

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Childrens Films

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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