Bluesat UNSW
BlueSat logo
UNSW student space projects
Mission statementTo give students real-world experience in multi-disciplinary space engineering projects, and promote space technology in Australia.[1]
Type of projectSpace
ProductsBLUEtounge Rover, BLUEsat Satellite v1
LocationSydney
OwnerUNSW
CountryAustralia
Established1997 (1997)[1]
FundingUNSW and corporate sponsors [2]
StatusActive
Websitebluesat.com.au

The Bluesat project is an engineering project being undertaken by undergraduate students at the University of New South Wales. It aims to raise awareness of space and give students the opportunity to undertake space engineering projects.

Current projects include an attitude control system for the Waratah Seed[3] project and a CubeSat design for the Japanese Satellite Design Competition (Satcon).[4][1]

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 2015, 9th at the 2016 iteration of the challenge and 8th in the 2018 iteration.[5]

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 balloons.

Current executives

  • Andrew Nicholson - President[6]
  • Matthew Rossouw - Vice president[6]
  • Jimmy Chen - Secretary
  • Bilegsaikhan (Bilgee) Turbadrakh - Chief technical officer[6]
  • David Huang - Treasurer[6]

Competition results

YearCompetitionRanking
2015European Rover Challenge16th
2016European Rover Challenge9th
2018European Rover Challenge8th

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Home". BLUEsat UNSW.
  2. ↑ "BLUEsat - Sponsors".
  3. ↑ "Home". waratahseed.space.
  4. ↑ "BlueSat satellite projects". Archived from the original on 25 February 2020.
  5. ↑ Deng, Jackie (17 September 2016). "BLUEsat Places 9th at European Rover Challenge".
  6. 1 2 3 4 "BLUEsat - New Exec".


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