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We are pleased to announce that Professor Iver Cairns, Director of CUAVA and the Waratah Seed Space Qualification Mission has been nominated for two awards at the upcoming Australian Space Awards 2023: Academic of the Year and Scientist of the Year. Professor Iver Cairn’s nominations are presented alongside CUAVA and Waratah Seed associates Anne Bettens (University of Sydney, Deneb Space), Anita Ho-Baillie (University of Sydney, EurokaPower) and start-up EurokaPower, as finalists for the 2023 space awards.  Academic of the Year  • Anne Bettens, The University of Sydney, Deneb Space  • Professor...

CUAVA congratulates PhD student Naif Alsalem, who won 1st Prize this week in the Engineering and Science track at the 7th Saudi Scientific Symposium, Sydney, for his presentation of the development and applications of the RedEye-1 infrared imaging instrument, highlighting the role of the CUAVA and SAIL labs in developing space-based, UAV, and aerial instruments.

The CUAVA Engineering team have just taken delivery of the engineering model of a Charge Exchange Thruster, developed under project 1.1 by CUAVA post-doctoral researcher, Dr Richard Bowden-Reid.

Congratulations to the Australian Centre for Space Engineering and Research (ACSER) on being awarded an ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant to fund development of a new Australian Spacecraft Innovation Laboratory.

Congratulations to the Waratah Seed WS-1 Payload Competition Winners! The Waratah Seed launch date is now confirmed as April 2023, CUAVA look forward to supporting with the Waratah Seed project and the WS-1 Payload Competition Winning Teams on integration of their payloads into the WS-1 satellite platform over the coming months.

Professor Cairns will be speaking at the 2021 Einstein Lecture When: Tues August 17 Time: 6:30pm online Professor iver Cairns will be speaking at the 2021 Einstein Lecture which is presented this year by the School of Physics at UNSW as part of National Sciences Week.

Introducing PhD Candidate, Tejaswi Shinde, who has join CUAVA this year. 

CUAVA wins the category Space Education and Outreach Program of the Year for 2021. CUAVA was announced as winner at the Australian Space Awards, held at gala event held on June 4th.

CUAVA Director, Prof. Iver Cairns, recently gave a talk on progress of CUAVA projects - including CUAVA-1 - at the Sydney Space Frontier Society chapter of the National Space Society of Australia (NSSA). You can view the talk in full here.

CUAVA Wins State Government Funding for NSW Space Qualification program, with project code-named ‘Waratah Seed’.

CUAVA have achieved a major milestone this week in completing delivery of CUAVA-1 to SpaceBD in Japan.

The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Council has announced that they will confer an Honorary Member Award on CUAVA Director, Professor Iver Cairns, at their Annual General Meeting this coming August.