The Waratah Seed-1 satellite has now been in orbit for over 100 days, completing over 1500 revolutions around the Earth. We’re celebrating this huge milestone with a look back at the highlights of our August 17th launch.

Satellite communications with our ground stations have been successfully established, and commissioning of the payloads is underway, powering up systems and starting to receive data from the technology on board.

Waratah Seed-1 carries the winners of the WS-1 Payload Competition, run in 2021 to support NSW based space-tech start-ups to demonstrate their technology in space. The satellite also carries payloads from our clients and partners, both academic and commercial.

Built by CUAVA, the ARC Centre for CubeSats, UAVs and their Applications, in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, the Waratah Seed mission is supported by the NSW Government through Investment NSW Pilot Space Qualification Mission Grant.

Key stakeholders SmartSat CRC, SmartSat - NSW Node and SmartSat’s Aurora Space Cluster are providing co-funding for several payloads on the Waratah Seed WS-1 mission.

Raytheon Australia contributed co-funding towards costs of joint first-prize winners, EurokaPower and Spiral Blue, flying on WS-1.

To follow the Waratah Seed satellite orbit in real-time, go to our dashboard.