The team has been working hard to be ready for the launch and have been checking the weather over the last few weeks to set a launch date for the weather balloon flight carrying the prototype satellite. As Saturday 6th April will have the lowest winds of this week, this is the planned date of the launch, with the location being Middletown hill near Welshpool.

GoBandit has kindly donated one of their GPS HD cameras to the project for more complete documentation of the project and in particular launch day. The team plan to utilise this camera on the ground to film the recovery.

The project's polo shirts have arrived.

The prototype chassis for the balloon launch arrived yesterday, ready for assembly and then attachment of the electronics inside. Below is a picture of Elliott checking it over to give an idea of its size. More pictures of the team at work can be found under Photo Gallery in the Media section of the website.

WUSAT's Winter edition of the newsletter has been produced and can be read here. It details our progress, particularly in the electronics side and the chassis, and the upcoming balloon launch.

The team with the poster on show outside the WUSAT lab:

WUSAT has appeared in Balloon News, a news blog dedicated to high altitude ballooning. Read the article here.

The team have submitted the poster detailing all the major aims and design choices for this years prototype. This can now be viewed on the Media page, or by following this article.

The team received training today on LabVIEW, software that will be integral to our base station. Thanks to Hannah & Ash from National Instruments for such an interesting demonstration of its capabilities, and for providing us with some very useful advice.

After the completion of the previous ESMO project, with RS Components as a sponsor, WUSAT are pleased to once again be sponsored by RS Components for this exciting new CubeSat project. RS is kindly supporting the project by supplying its high quality products to WUSAT. We are delighted to be working with RS.