Congratulations to the Binar Team on the successful launch of Binar 2,3 and 4. After a delay due to poor weather, the satellites launched aboard a SpaceX rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Sunday night, before docking at the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, 6 August 2024.

Excited crowds and media crews gathered at the Northbridge Piazza on Tuesday to watch a replay of the launch followed by a livestream of the rocket’s arrival at the ISS.

This mission is a remarkable achievement for Curtin and marks an important milestone for Western Australia, with the trio of CubeSats carrying instrumentation from Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and Perth-based communications systems company AVI – marking the first time a WA business has sent its goods into space.

Congratulations to Binar Principal Investigator, John Curtin Distinguished Professor Phil Bland, and the entire Binar team on this monumental achievement.

You can learn more about the Binar mission in our media release.

A group of people stand on a lawn looking up at a large screen that is streaming the launch of Binar satellites. The screen shows the view from the satellites looking down at Earth as it leaves the atmosphere towards the space station.
A growing crowd watches the launch and docking in Northbridge Piazza.
The crowd cheers the success of the Binar launch and docking.
The crowd cheers the success of the Binar launch and docking while media film the event.