McGowan Government invests $500,000 into Curtin University’s Binar Space Program Curtin Space Science and Technology Centre’s Binar CubeSat is the first integrated satellite bus fully designed and built in Australia Binar CubeSat is a new small satellite platform for putting payloads for Earth observation and communication into space at a reduced cost McGowan Government has invested $5.75m over the last 18 months to support WA’s space industry Curtin University’s state-of-the-art Binar Space Program is set to take-off, with the announcement today by Innovation and ICT Minister Dave Kelly, that the McGowan Government will invest $500,000 in the program. Curtin’s Space Science and Technology Centre has developed the Binar CubeSat, the first integrated satellite bus to be fully designed and manufactured in Australia. The planned launch schedule for the Binar CubeSat will see it enter low earth orbit well in advance of the recently announced South Australian SASAT1 satellite.