The Bluesat project is an engineering project being undertaken by undergraduate students at the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

. It aims to raise awareness of

space Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider ...

and give students the opportunity to undertake space engineering projects. Current projects include an

attitude control Attitude control is the process of controlling the orientation of an aerospace vehicle with respect to an inertial frame of reference or another entity such as the celestial sphere, certain fields, and nearby objects, etc. Controlling vehicle ...

system for the Waratah Seed project and a

CubeSat A CubeSat is a class of miniaturized satellite based around a form factor consisting of cubes. CubeSats have a mass of no more than per unit, and often use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components for their electronics and structure. CubeSats ...

design for the Japanese Satellite Design Competition (Satcon).

Past projects

Bluesat's ground station team is assisted in ACSER's ECO360 satellite and built a number of system in that satellite. Bluesat's Off-World Robotics team was involved in several rover platform designs for various satellite competitions. OWR's project BLUEtounge came 16th out of 40 in the

European Rover Challenge European Rover Challenge (ERC, ERC Space & Robotics) – an annual international Martian robots competition attended by teams from around the world. The competition has been organized since 2014 in Poland. The ERC is the biggest robotics and spa ...

2015, 9th at the 2016 iteration of the challenge and 8th in the 2018 iteration. In 2019 Bluesat collaborated with Biosphere UNSW and AIAA Rocketry UNSW to launch a 2U CubeSat on a rocket for the THUNDA 2019 rocket launch competition. The ADCS team also designed a detumble system for the rocket however it was not tested in that project. However their design is kept for future projects. Bluesat also undertook work

stratospheric balloon High-altitude balloons are crewed or uncrewed balloons, usually filled with helium or hydrogen, that are released into the stratosphere, generally attaining between above sea level. In 2002, a balloon named BU60-1 reached a record altitude of . ...

Current executives

* Andrew Nicholson - President * Matthew Rossouw - Vice president *Jimmy Chen - Secretary * Bilegsaikhan (Bilgee) Turbadrakh - Chief technical officer * David Huang - Treasurer

Competition results

References

External links

Bluesat project website
Amateur radio satellites University of New South Wales student organisations Rover Challenge Series {{spacecraft-stub