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To orbit… and beyond?
Artist impression of SASAT1. Credit: Alex Preist / Inovor Technologies
South Australian Premier Steven Marshall today announced a $6.5 million partnership with the growing South Australian space industry to send a locally made small satellite into low Earth orbit in 2022.
Marshall says SA is the first Australian state government to embark on such an undertaking.
Dubbed the SASAT1 Space Services Mission, the satellite will gather information designed to assist and improve such things as emergency services, environment and water-quality monitoring, and mining and bushfire mitigation.
The mission will be led by the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) at the University of South Australia, with private SA space companies adding expertise. Adelaide-based Inovor Technologies will design, build and test the 6-unit Apogee satellite bus and deliver it to the launch contractor. Myriota will handle Internet of Things (IoT) space services.

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