BLUEsat with some of the team members. From left to right are Chun-kan Leung, Anne Gwynne-Robson, John Aiden Rohde, Thieñ Ñguyeñ, Daniel Jedrychowski and Varun Nayyar – Image credit UNSW

The Daily Advertiser newspaper reports the University of New South Wales (UNSW) undergraduate amateur radio satellite project has been given the tick of approval to have a stratospheric balloon test flight in Wagga.

BLUEsat – Image credit UNSW

The Basic Low Earth Orbit UNSW Experimental Satellite, better known as BLUEsat, will undergo a test flight in April ahead of its launch into space.

BLUEsat, a 260mm cube weighing around 13 kilograms, will carry a flight computer with transmissions to include a beacon and amateur packet radio using the AX.25 packet radio protocol in a “mode J” VHF/UHF configuration.

Once in orbit BLUEsat will be a digital amateur radio satellite, which means that voice and data files can be uploaded to it by any amateur radio operator in the world over which the satellite passes.

Read the Daily Advertiser article – Satellite project to reach new heights
http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/story/1781014/satellite-project-to-reach-new-heights/

Australia’s own BLUEsat ready for launch
https://amsat-uk.org/2013/09/13/australias-bluesat-ready-for-launch/

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Basic Low Earth Orbit UNSW Experimental Satellite (BLUEsat) project http://www.bluesat.unsw.edu.au/