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WARATAH SEED-1
Australian Technology Demonstrator (Founding Mission) · Space Machines Company (Australia)
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Waratah Seed-1, Australia's first satellite built specifically to demonstrate domestically-developed spacecraft components, named after the flower that is the state emblem of New South Wales — part of Australia's growing push to establish genuine sovereign satellite manufacturing capability rather than depending entirely on foreign-built hardware.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 283–284 mi (455–456 km)
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- One orbit
- 93.6 minutes15.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 60469
- Int’l designator
- 2024-149B
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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