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Off-World Robotics Software Positions Vacant!

The BLUEsat Off World Robtics Team at the European Rover Challenge in Poland with the Numbat Mars Rover.

If you're looking for something to do throughout the holidays, the team at BLUEsat UNSW are currently looking for several people to join The Off-World Robotics Software Team! The...

April 2019 Monthly Update

May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 By Anita Smirnov, Bohan Deng, William Miles, Jason Love, Quoc Trung Vo, Timothy Guo, William Chen, Olivia Yem, Rajiv Narayan, Adithya Rajendran, Victor Tse
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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...

Collaboration with Radian

Tim, our Satellite CTO holding the CubeSat for the AURC rocket launch. Photo by AIAA RocketryGreenSat is excited to collaborate with Radian on it's journey to creating a life...

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 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.

Mechanical Frame Design of the Satellite

As part of the design of our CubeSat satellite, a 10x10x10cm cube, a frame is required, to stabilise solar panels and hold circuit boards among other things. This blog covers the design process of this frame.

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.

Our Drone Team

small drone on a table with blue propellers

BLUEsat’s drone team formed in August 2018, this blog talks about the changes in the goals, design and approach of the drone team in that time.

Engineering Design Guide (Science Module) Part 2

A CAD crosssection of the Rover science module

In the last blog post, we have gone through functional requirements (FR) listing, Morph chart brainstorming, constraints listing and design parameters (DP) selections. You can check out the previous installment...

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