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November 2018 Monthly Update

lots of people in a room running workshops

RoverFrom the Rover CTOThe Off World Robotics teams have made steady progress over the past month with members coming back after exams. The rover team has continued development and...

Engineering Design Guide (Science Module) Part 1

This blog is going to introduce you to engineering design by providing a step-by-step guide, using the rover science module as an example. I (Nora) will walk you through...

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...

October 2018 Monthly Update

BLUEsat members at the Tech Connect Networking event

November 5, 2018 January 1, 2019 By Anita Smirnov, William Miles, Quoc Trung Vo, Jonathan Wong, Nahid Alemi Kermani, Hamish Clark, William Chen, Olivia Yem, Rajiv Narayan, Victor Tse, Steffany Synge

We've had an exciting month this October, with much more to come in the following weeks! A lot of future planning has been done on the technical side of things,...

BLUEsat’s ERC Ventures and Adventures

The NUMBAT Rover arm picking up a tool against a background of Red "Mars" soil at the European Rover Challenge.

October 24, 2018 January 1, 2019 By Anita Smirnov

Our trip to Poland was one hell of an adventure, with a lot of on-the-spot engineering, things breaking and being fixed (or "fixed" in some cases), panicked runs carrying...

High Altitude Balloon Launch 29 Sept 2018

The BLUEsat High Altitude Balloon team inflating a stratospheric balloon on the back of a ute.

October 10, 2018 November 5, 2018 By Hamish Clark

For anyone wondering what the High-Altitude Ballooning (HAB) team has been up to over the last few months - don’t worry, we have not been slacking off! The team...

September 2018 Monthly Update

October 1, 2018 October 1, 2018 By Anita Smirnov, Thomas Renneberg, Jonathan Wong, Timothy Guo, Adithya Rajendran, William Chen, Rajiv Narayan, Joerick Aligno, Raghav Hariharan

It was definitely the most eventful month of the year for BLUEsat. Placing 8th in the European Rover Challenge (ERC), attending the AEC as well as the successful balloon...

The Fermi Paradox

Info-graphic postulating the answer to "Where are they?"

September 19, 2018 October 21, 2018 By Raghav Hariharan

For a little change of pace from all of these wonderful technical blogs, I think it's time for a little break to let loose our imagination and curiosity. This'll...

August 2018 Monthly Update

September 3, 2018 September 3, 2018 By Anita Smirnov

BLUEsat has had yet another incredible month; with great success at our first Showcase event, the formation of our Outreach team, UNSW Open day shenanigans and great progress in...

Real World Applications of Solid State Relays

September 2, 2018 November 4, 2018 By Rajiv Narayan

What are solid state relays? Solid state relays (SSRs), or OCMOS FETs, are a type of switching device that has no moving parts (as opposed to the regular relay). These...

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