NEWS BRIEFING: Aussie made satellites blast off to the International Space Station

Embargoed until: Publicly released: 2021-08-25 11:26

Australia; NSW; SA; WA

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*Recording now available* This Saturday, the 28th of August, two Australian built satellites, Binar-1 and CUAVA-1, will launch on a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station. The Binar-1 CubeSat is the first satellite designed and built entirely in Western Australia, put together by a team of students and engineers at Curtin University, and is part of a program that will take Aussie space technology to the Moon by 2025.

The CUAVA-1 satellite represents an international collaboration with several Australian universities and space industry companies. Each of these tiny satellites, measuring around the size of a tissue box, are the beginning of an important step forward for space programs in Australia.

News release

From: Australian Science Media Centre

The briefing will discuss the following issues:

What is a CubeSat and what does it do?
What are these two missions for?
The significance of these missions for the Aussie Space Industry

Speakers:

Professor Phil Bland - Director of the Curtin University Space Science and Technology Centre
Professor Iver Cairns - Director of the ARC Training Centre CUAVA and Professor of Space Physics at the University of Sydney
Mr Anthony Murfett - Deputy Head of the Australian Space Agency

Date: Thur 26 Aug 2021
Start Time: 09:30am AEST
Duration: Approx 30 min
Venue: Online - Zoom

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Organisation/s: Curtin University, The University of Sydney, Australian Space Agency

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