Today I talk to Dr Courtney Bright, Flight Operations Lead at UNSW Canberra Space, about their exciting M2 mission and how they’ll fly two satellites in formation - without any propulsion! Then there’s a mountain of Aussie space news, including two other cubesat launches.

More about the M2 mission:

• M2 mission home page
• UNSW Canberra Space on LinkedIn, including space selfies!

Cubesat news:

• Binar-1 and CUAVA-1 blast off to the ISS - Cosmos Magazine
• Curtin University watching Binar-1’s launch
• CUAVA and its projects, May 2021 - Professor Iver Cairns - presentation to the National Space Society of Australia (video, 1h 32m)
• CUAVA-1 press release
• UNSW ACSER: Kea GPS hardware experiments
• CUAVA and Wolfpack Space Hub announce Waratah Seed payload competition

Launch services news:

• Southern Launch receives first commercial launch permit for TiSPACE sub-orbital test
• Gilmour Space partners with ExoLaunch on rideshares

Defence space news:

• UGL joins Airbus bid for JP9102 defence satellite communication system contract
• Defence includes space in their sovereign industrial capability priorities

Space startup news:

• HEO Robotics raises seed funding, led by British billionaire (disclosure: I am also an investor in HEO Robotics)
• Wolfpack Space Hub receives $500k funding to support space manufacturing startups
• Stone & Chalk information session for startups on ASA Trailblazer program (video, 53m)

Upcoming events:

• Tue 14 Sep at 4pm Adelaide time - “Venture Capital for Space”, with Bill Bartee from Main Sequence, and Enrico Palermo, Head of the Australian Space Agency.
• Wed 15 Sep - 12th Australian Space Forum at the Adelaide Convention Centre, or virtual attendance.

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