Warwick University Satellite Project
Warwick Engineering Heritage
WUSAT 2005 to 2025
The University of Warwick Satellite Engineering Team
Dr Bill Crofts
The WUSAT Satellite Engineering Programme was founded in 2005 by
Dr. Bill Crofts
Hence 2025 is the...
20th Anniversary of WUSAT!
50th Anniversary of the European Space Agency!
60th Anniversary of the University of Warwick!
Typical Multidisciplinary WUSAT team
This website is dedicated to the excellent student teams who achieved so much with this unique WUSAT programme over 20 years.
My best wishes to you all!
Bill
WUSAT was a unique university-based organisation that predominantly used 4th Year MEng students in a multi-disciplinary team. They operated as a satellite mission prime contractor in order to produce a custom-designed CubeSat satellite for a client payload. They worked to ESA standards and followed a recognised Space Systems Engineering Methodology to design, test, launch and operate a satellite to client requirements.
Early revision stages were completed via phase reviews carried out by a panel of engineers from our partners at Airbus. Later revision stages, potentially leading to launch, were carried out by a panel of ESA engineers assigned to the ESA Academy via their launch programme.
This provided an exceptional experience for teams of students to attend Airbus or ESA review panels in the same way that an industrial prime contract company team would do.
The pages of this website highlight all WUSAT missions and also much of the Outreach and other activity undertaken by WUSAT in regional and national Space organisations. Please use the links at the top of the page to find out more.
The video below runs for about 12 minutes and gives an excellent overview of WUSAT missions over 20 years.
(Hover mouse over video and click speaker icon to turn sound on for video clips)