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Spacecraft

ARC Training Centre for CubeSats, UAVs & Their Applications


CUAVA has launched three spacecraft – learn more about their missions.

CUAVA-2 satellite

CUAVA-2

CUAVA-2 is a 6U Cubesat that incorporates a hyperspectral imager for applications in agriculture, forestry, coastal and marine environments, urban areas, water hazard assessment, and mineral exploration. It also includes a GPS reflectometry payload for remote sea state determination, as well as secondary payloads for technology demonstration and space weather study.

Waratah Seed WS-1 satellite

Waratah Seed WS-1

Waratah Seed is Australia’s first ride-share mission, flying an Australian-built 6U CubeSat  into Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

Funded by the NSW government through their Space Industry Development program, Waratah Seed’s mission is to deliver space flight qualification opportunities to NSW startup- and industry-led teams.

CUAVA-1 satellite

CUAVA-1

The CUAVA-1 satellite was the first satellite designed, developed and launched by the CUAVA Training Centre. CUAVA-1 was a 3U CubeSat with four experimental payloads: ISTI (Imager, Spectrograph, and TinyTol Instrument) developed by the School of Physics, University of Sydney; KEA GPS Instrument developed by ACSER, University of New South Wales; Radiation Detector with integrated Power Over Databus payload developed by the  University of Sydney; RUSH (Reconfigurable Systems for Space) developed by Macquarie University.