WUSAT Story

WUSAT Backstory

The back story of how WUSAT began, how it has achieved remarkable success despite minimal resources, and some of the unexpected twists of fate that determined its progress are shown in the article below.

Written in May 2019, following almost 14 years of WUSAT operation, the article shows how WUSAT was always going to be Bill's destiny for 20 years!

Bill & Julia in WUSAT Lab

The Story of WUSAT

The unique story of the University of Warwick Satellite Engineering team

By Dr Bill Crofts, University of Warwick

In 2006, when I visited Prof Steve Gabriel1 at the University of Southampton, I had no idea what a remarkable chain of events this would lead to, nor how much this would influence many years of my life to come!

Click hereLink opens in a new window to read the background story to unlikely events that brought WUSAT in to being!