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CUAVA is excited to announce the delivery of the Electro Permanent Magnetorquer (EPM) payload, in preparation for integration into the CUAVA-2 Satellite, scheduled for launch in early 2024.   The Electro Permanent Magnetorquer is a CubeSat-ready magnetorquer designed by a team at the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering (AMME) at the University of Sydney. The team comprises of Zihao Wang, Xiaofeng Wu and Youngho Eun.  Unlike conventional magnetometers, the electro-permanent magnetorquer utilises hard magnetic...

CUAVA has reached a major milestone in our mission to launch CUAVA-2 in early 2024. We are thrilled to announce that we have received the flight model of the CROSS Star Tracker payload. The CROSS payload for CUAVA-2 is designed to demonstrate a wide-field-of-view (WFOV) star tracker. It is designed as a compact and cost-effective star tracker that removes barriers for CubeSats to achieve high accuracy attitude determination using known positions of bright stars as...

The Perovskites in Orbit Readiness Test (PORT) Payload has been delivered to CUAVA in preparation for its integration onto the CUAVA-2 Satellite. This delivery marks an exciting major milestone in our CUAVA-2 mission, set to launch in early 2024. Designed by the University of Sydney Space Solar Cell Research Team, led by Anita Ho-Baillie, Laura Granados, Tiaan Stals, Arafat Mahmud, David McKenzie, and Iver Cairns, the PORT payload seeks to be the first demonstration of...

CUAVA is excited to announce the delivery of the CXT, in preparation for integration into the CUAVA-2 Satellite, scheduled for launch in early 2024.   The Charge Exchange Thruster (CXT) is a novel electric propulsion system invented and developed at the University of Sydney. It was developed by CUAVA partners Richard Bowden-Reid, Joe Khachan, and Iver Cairns, all working within the School of Physics, University of Sydney.    Image: CXT Flight model for CUAVA-2. Image shows...

CUAVA has reached a major milestone in our mission to launch CUAVA-2 in early 2024. We are thrilled to announce that we have received all partner payloads, including the delivery of the Electron Density and Debris Instrument (EDDI).  The EDDI payload is an impressive piece of technology, designed at the School of Physics, University of Sydney, led by Quinn Musulin, Iver Cairns, Joe Khachan, and Philip Leong. The primary purpose of the EDDI instrument is...