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