Two Australian designed and built spacecrafts will be launched into orbit.

CUAVA-1 and BINAR-1 will be on board a Space-X rocket, launched from Florida tonight

The spacecrafts were supposed to launch last night, but Cuava Director Professor Iver Cairns has told Luke Grant bad weather caused disruption.

The rocket will be launched tonight at 5:14pm Australian Eastern Time.

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