Olivia Yem – BLUEsat UNSW

July 2019 Monthly Update

August 5, 2019 August 5, 2019 By Anita Smirnov, William Miles, Jason Love, Quoc Trung Vo, Lexman Palanirajan, William Chen, Olivia Yem, Rajiv Narayan, Victor Tse, Adithya Rajendran
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Off-World RoboticsRoverRover SoftwareThe Off-World Robotics Software team has been continuing preparations for the now close-at-hand European Rover Challenge; we were involved in preparing for and filming the rover...

Magnetorquers as ADC systems

Magnetorquers are used to stop a satellite from spinning when it is in orbit. This blog post explains how they work.

June 2019 Monthly Update

Off-World RoboticsRoverRover SoftwareThe Off-World Robotic Software team has been finishing up an internal restructuring this month, moving from having a central team lead delegating all tasks, to a squad...

May 2019 Monthly Update

Off-World RoboticsFrom the OWR CTOMay has been a significant month for Rover as teams finalise their designs and begin ordering parts. A Preliminary Design Report for the ...

April 2019 Monthly Update

Off-World RoboticsFrom the OWR CTOApril has been a quiet month for the rover and drone teams as members focus on the final stretch of the trimester. The teams focused...

March 2019 Monthly Update

Taking part in ENGsoc’s Project fair, the overall system architecture of the project our balloon team is working on approaching its final state, and more!

A Satellite Launch?

Prototype CubeSat ADC consisting of three levels of PCBS with metal wheels inbetween for the ADCs

The BLUEsat Satellite team and BioSphere are launching a payload with genetically modified bacteria in the AIAA Rocketry rocket at THUNDA 2019 in April!

February 2019 Monthly Update

lecture hall with over 30 students, one guy standing at the front with his back to the camera and a projector light shines bright on top

February has been a great month for BLUEsat – with our O-week stall bringing new members into the society, running workshops, preparations for a rocket launch to test our CubeSat subsystems and development of all our projects.

January 2019 Monthly Update

Two people sitting on the ground next to a large rover (aluminium robot on wheels) gesturing to each other with their hands

January has been fairly productive despite many members being on holidays, with work on a mobile groundstation, design modifications to our rover and more.

Detumbling and the B-Dot Algorithm

A magnetorquer showing the copper coils.

November 15, 2018 November 15, 2018 By Olivia Yem

Detumbling?Detumbling is essential to every satellite and is the first thing that one has to do after the launch. When the satellite is launched, it spins wildly in space...

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