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ROS Transforms (TF) Part 1: An Introduction

BLUEsat's BLUEtongue Rover represented as a 3D model in RViz with each transform being marked by a set of axes.

At BLUEsat UNSW, the Off-World Robotics Software Team uses the Robotics Operating System (ROS) as the basis for much of our code. The modularity, communications framework, and existing packages...

May 2018 Monthly Update

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

June 4, 2018 June 4, 2018 By Anita Smirnov, Thomas Renneberg, Jonathan Wong, Simon Ireland, Harry Price, Joerick Aligno, Mark Yeo, Raghav Hariharan

This has been an eventful month for BLUEsat UNSW, with our previous President and Secretary, Helena Kertesz and Harry J.E Day, stepping down from their executive positions at BLUEsat....

Australia’s New Space Industry

May 30, 2018 June 4, 2018 By Taofiq Huq

"Oh, do you want to go join NASA?" has become a tiresome question that people ask whenever I and other students mention our interest in joining the space industry....

Balloon Launch 2 – Achievements and Plans

May 16, 2018 November 4, 2018 By Jeffrey Wu

The High Altitude Balloon Team’s final project objective is to design and build a balloon payload that holds and stabilises a ground-facing radar for surveying purposes. To achieve this,...

April 2018 Monthly Update

May 7, 2018 May 6, 2018 By Anita Smirnov, Thomas Renneberg, Jonathan Wong, Simon Ireland, Sajid Ibne Anower, Mark Yeo, Adithya Rajendran, Harry Price, Joerick Aligno, Harry J.E Day

It's been another busy month at BLUEsat UNSW. This month's major achievements include our breakthrough with the steering module of the NUMBAT rover, the creation of a successful SDR...

Modular Systems – The basis of the NUMBAT Rover

April 25, 2018 January 1, 2019 By Thomas Renneberg

Modular designs are not a new concept, in fact they are used just about everywhere from your humble desktop computer to scaffolding on the side of a building. But...

March 2018 Monthly Update

April 9, 2018 May 1, 2018 By Harry J.E Day, Thomas Renneberg, Simon Ireland, Mark Yeo, Adithya Rajendran, Benjamin Koschnick, Harry Price, Joerick Aligno, Sajid Ibne Anower, Jonathan Wong

It's been another busy month at BLUEsat UNSW. This month's major achievements include our GreenSat team's success at the EngSoc pitch fair, and completion of the NUMBAT Mars Rover's...

Catching Up with GreenSat

Ben Koschnick accepting the prize for "Most Inovative" on stage at the UNSW Engineering Society Pitch Fair.

April 4, 2018 November 4, 2018 By Benjamin Koschnick

Recently, GreenSat was offered the opportunity to pitch our project at the project and pitch fair 2018, where we won Most Innovative pitch. This is just one of the...

What it’s like being a Biologist in an Engineering Entity

When you think of outer space, what would you relate it to? My guess is physics, astronomy and maybe black holes. What about subjects such as biology, ecology or...

Test firing a Hybrid Rocket

Following on from my previous blog post on Hybrid Rockets, I've been working on putting together a functional prototype. The core aim of my thesis is to evaluate the performance...

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