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WUSAT at ESRANGE

The WUSAT team are spending the week in ESRANGE, the space centre in northern Sweden and situated in the Arctic Circle where the REXUS rocket will be launched in 2015 containing the WUSAT CubeSat! This is for the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of our project where there will be several lectures from space experts, presentations by all of the participating teams and an in-depth discussion with a team of experts regarding the Student Experiment Document (SED) the team have written and the experiment as a whole. This will be an invaluable experience that will help develop the project to meet real space-worthy conditions and all the additional work that goes with it. Further updates from Sweden will be posted throughout the week.

Mon 03 Mar 2014, 11:03 | Tags: training, REXUS

Further WUSAT Publicity

More publicity has followed the WUSAT team in the wake of the successful REXUS bid. This includes articles on the project in the Independant, the Coventry Observer (which can be seen in the 'Media' tab) and Warwick's own paper, the Boar. The Rugby Advertiser also carried an article on the project and Oliver Vavasour one of this year's team members. This was followed by an article in the Engineering Designer, published in March 2014.

Our recent academic work has also been uploaded to the Media section. This includes the Winter newsletter for 2014 and the poster for WUSAT-2.

Thu 20 Feb 2014, 14:10 | Tags: publicity, REXUS

WUSAT on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Dr Bill Crofts, the director of the WUSAT project, was on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire radio yesterday. He talks about the satellite, it's payload, REXUS and the selection process involved. Catch-up on the interview here.

Fri 31 Jan 2014, 12:07 | Tags: publicity, REXUS

Recent WUSAT publicity

The past few weeks have seen plenty of publicity for the WUSAT project following our successful REXUS bid. First, BBC Midlands Today visited the Satellite Laboratory to film the team working and speak to the team. The piece is expected to be aired in the next few weeks.

After that, some publicity shots were taken of the team wearing their WUSAT polo shirts, one of which can be seen below, for articles on the project that will be appearing in local newspapers around the country. The corresponding Warwick news article can be seen here.

Finally, project director Bill Crofts will be appearing on BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire this afternoon talking about the project and the REXUS launch in 2015.

WUSAT polos

Thu 30 Jan 2014, 12:34 | Tags: photo, publicity, REXUS

WUSAT-SOLSPEC successful in REXUS bid

We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in our bid for a slot on the REXUS 1718 campaign!

We will now be looking to expand our team to tackle the increase in workload primarily looking at 3rd year engineering students.

Thank you everyone for your support and REXUS/BEXUS for the excellent advice, we will continue to update you on our progress towards the project's most ambitious target yet!

You can see the team who attended the workshop just after they finished their successful presentation in the image below, with ESA's eduactional mascot Paxi.

REXUS presentation

Sat 04 Jan 2014, 12:20 | Tags: training, photo, publicity, REXUS