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Aerospace Futures 2018 Day 1

Suited up in the Parliament House before the Aerospace futures conference

July 17, 2018 July 17, 2018 By Raghav Hariharan

Aerospace Futures 2018 Excited! That’s exactly how I felt hopping onto the bus yesterday for the Aerospace Futures Conference. We had a wonderful bus ride down to Canberra chatting with...

The Australian Space Program: Part 2

Australia enters the space race - comic, Australian space industry

July 11, 2018 June 11, 2019 By Benjamin Koschnick

Last time on The Australian Space Program, our intrepid heroes were struggling to build an Australian space agency! And now for our thrilling conclusion... Existing Capability at Home Australia’s space industry...

June 2018 Monthly Update

Connector board array on the NUMBAT rover

July 2, 2018 July 1, 2018 By Anita Smirnov, Jonathan Wong, Simon Ireland, Thomas Renneberg, Timothy Guo, Joerick Aligno, William Chen, Mark Yeo, Raghav Hariharan, Rajiv Narayan

It has been another busy month at BLUEsat. Progress has been made with the NUMBAT rover in our Off-World Robotics Team, with work on connector boards, PCBs, the suspension...

The Australian Space Program: Part 1

Australian space, Australia from space, Earth

June 27, 2018 June 26, 2018 By Benjamin Koschnick

We have a space program. After decades of lobbying both for and against, the Australian government announced their intentions to restructure the disparate government departments involved with coordinating a...

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

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...

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