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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...

We are pleased to announce that research centre SmartSat has committed over $1 million to support the development of new tech that will be tested on the Waratah Seed WS-1 rideshare mission, Australia’s first space qualification-focused ride-share mission. Andy Koronios, CEO of SmartSat CRC, said Waratah Seed is an historic step for NSW’s space industry. “SmartSat welcomes NSW’s commitment to Waratah Seed, and we are excited to be a part of such a momentous project. We...

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.

CUAVA-1 successfully deployed into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS) on 6 October at 21:55 (Aust.EDT).  The event was live-streamed by JAXA and CUAVA Director, Iver Cairns, was on hand to give the 'Go/No go' call for deployment. A link to the JAXA live-stream recording follows. CUAVA-1 has been on board the ISS awaiting deployment since Space-X Cargo Dragon module on a resupply mission docked with the International Space Station on August 30. The CUAVA...

CUAVA-1 is in space!

Waratah Seed are now inviting Commercial Clients to ride-share on the WS-1 CubeSat mission in 2022.

Commercial Client and Payload Competition Q&A sessions

The SpaceX launch scheduled for 28 August 2021 that was set to take CUAVA-1 to the International Space Station has been postponed until 29 August 5:14pm Australian EST. The CUAVA team will be online again showing the launch live-stream and taking audience questions about CUAVA-1, payloads, and our plans for the future. Join us again to see CUAVA-1 off! Click on the button to join the webinar at 5.00pm Sunday 29 August 2021. Don't forget to...