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Western Australia’s homegrown spacecraft, Binar-1, has made first contact with ground control at Curtin University, after it was launched into low orbit from the International Space Station two weeks ago.

Curtin University researchers have helped uncover the four billion year old story of a lunar sample brought from the moon to earth, by the manned Apollo 17 mission more than 50 years ago.

Researchers at Western Australia’s Curtin University are on science teams for three major current space missions, which coincide with the launch of the university’s new Space Science and Technology Centre, claimed as the largest planetary research group in the Southern Hemisphere.