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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...

CUAVA has reached a major milestone in our mission to launch CUAVA-2 in early 2024. We are excited to announce the delivery of the GPS Reflectometry Payload, Harry3.   The CUAVA-2 GPS reflectometry payload is developed by a team from the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) at the University of NSW. Key researchers on this team are Aldi Rivaldi, Joon Wayn Cheong, Eamonn Glennon, Phu Le, Ben Southwell and Andrew Dempster. The CUAVA-2 GPS...

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 is delighted to announce that CUAVA PhD student and researcher Joshua Critchley-Marrows was awarded the W.G.P. Lamb 2023 Award from the Royal Institute of Navigation, presented in London on Wednesday 21 June 2023. Joshua Critchley-Marrows is the Director of research group CROSS, whose star tracker payload will be flown on CUAVA-2 mission early 2024. The Royal Institute of Navigation is a UK-based organisation, and is internationally recognised as a global authority on topics of...

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...

Professor Iver Cairns, Director of CUAVA and the Waratah Seed Space Qualification Mission Iver Cairns has been awarded SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR 2023 by the Australian Space Awards. Winning from a group of 10 finalists, Professor Iver Cairns has dedicated his award to the scientists and students helping build Australia's space industry through CUAVA training centre. The awards event was held at the International Convention Centre in Sydney on Wednesday evening, 17 May 2023. Congratulations Iver! Read more about his win at University of Sydney News. Photo: University of Sydney...

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.