WE WANT TO PUT SPACE IN THE HANDS OF REGIONAL WA.
This exciting hands-on program with the BinarX team will guide you to design, construct, and launch your very own space-themed electronics project (payload) in a 3D-printed payload bay within your own personalised model rocket.
Entering its 3rd year in 2026, we are excited to announce that the program this year has been adapted for year 5-6 students (school year in 2026) and has moved to a shorter 6-day program. It ran at Curtin University’s Bentley Campus in the January 2026 school holidays (check out the photos and recap here!) and travelled to regional WA for the first time and ran at Curtin University’s Kalgoorlie campus in the July 2026 school holidays.
Immerse yourself in hands-on tinkering with electronics, data, design and laboratory-grade testing equipment, as you build critical thinking, creative and communication skills that will serve you far beyond the school holiday program.
This program is based on the BinarX Student Payload Development Program currently in schools, where 10 WA high school student teams from 8 WA high schools have designed, built and in June 2025 handed over their own payloads (electronics and software experiments) for the Binar-5 CubeSat being built by the team at the Binar Space Program as part of the Binar-567 Mission. The mission is scheduled for launch on a SpaceX rocket and deployment into orbit in space from the International Space Station in Q4 2026 and the students are now building SatNOGs ground stations to enable them to communicate with their payloads in orbit, approximately 400km above the surface of the Earth!
