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Mechanical Frame Design of the Satellite

3d view of four frame panels in a line
  • February 14, 2019 February 14, 2019 By Bailey Wilmot
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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
  • February 4, 2019 May 7, 2019 By Anita Smirnov, Bohan Deng, Jason Love, Quoc Trung Vo, William Miles, Lexman Palanirajan, Timothy Guo, Adithya Rajendran, Victor Tse, William Chen, Olivia Yem, Rajiv Narayan
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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
  • January 30, 2019 May 7, 2019 By Lucas Way, Lachlan Chow, Lexman Palanirajan
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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
  • December 19, 2018 January 26, 2019 By Nora Deng
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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...

November 2018 Monthly Update

lots of people in a room running workshops
  • December 3, 2018 May 7, 2019 By Anita Smirnov
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Rover From the Rover CTO The 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

CAD drawing of science module box
  • November 28, 2018 January 1, 2019 By Nora Deng, Jessica Li
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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...
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