The 53-meter, two-stage rocket measuring around 4 meters in diameter also released three other ''piggyback'' payloads: Australia's first domestically built FedSat satellite, a whale ecology observation satellite, dubbed Kantakun and developed by a Japanese university, and NASDA's Micro-LabSat test satellite.
FedSat and Micro-LabSat will conduct various experiments, NASDA said.