The largest Australian-built commercial satellite was launched in March. Then it went dark.
The largest private satellite built in Australia was blasted into space attached to a SpaceX rocket in March, swaddled in a thermal blanket made by a designer who normally fashions violin bags and umbrellas.
Optimus peeled off the Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket with a flurry of 53 other spacecraft, he said, complicating how quickly the company could find the satellite and attempt to establish contact. The smaller Optimus Viper satellite is a rapid-response vehicle that can get close to spacecraft that have been damaged or attacked, scan them with LIDAR and optical sensors and relay data back to Earth.
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