Today, our Project Manager and Electronics lead, Tom and George, were lucky enough to be invited to BBC Radio Bristol to be interviewed on the …
Now this is a juicy one and one that I know you have all been waiting for! As you may or may not know, our …
Read more "How we did it: Exporting and Reimporting Pathfinder"
PROVE Pathfinder are excited to announce that we shall be represented at EGU 2023 by Deputy Project Manager, Thomas! He shall be presenting the environmental …
Whilst UoBSat’s vibration campaign ended 2 weeks ago now, we have been busy going over some of the footage that was taken of our tests …
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Hello again from the thermal testing team at the ESA CubeSat Support Facility, Belgium. After suiting up for the cleanroom again we began the day …
Read more "Environmental Testing Campaign: Thermal Days 3 and 4"
Good morning from the thermal testing team of PROVE Pathfinder from ESA’s CubeSat Support Facility in Belgium! On Tuesday (11th April) we arrived on site …
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Following on from the vibration testing of the last week, the vibrations team has been swapped for the thermal team. The last thing that the …
Following on from our last update, the team have been hard at work completing the setup for the start of the vibration testing. Days 2-3 …
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Say hello to the PROVE Pathfinder Team! We are a team of dedicated University of Bristol undergraduates, postgraduates and staff across multiple schools and faculties. …
Our Visual Camera (the Basler ace acA5472-5GC) interfaces to our desgined-in-house PCB (more detail to follow in a later post) and to our payload computer …
Good morning from the PROVE Pathfinder vibrations team! After a successful journey from Bristol, Pathfinder has made its way to Belgium! Today the team spent …
After many months of work, we are pleased to announce that PROVE Pathfinder has finished assembly of its Engineering Model. Following a full software test …
For our second post on the technical side of the project we are talking about software. The Flight Software (FSW) and Onboard Computer (OBC) is …
Our first update on technical things. This time from the structures team looking at the process of drilling sensitive optical components – at PROVE Pathfinder, …
2 weeks ago we had a fantastic opportunity to host an event to share our project with aspiring young students as a part of the …
Read more "Catch the Volcano! Satellite and Thermal Imaging Mission"
UoBSat are delighted to announce that our new website is now live! We would particularly like to thank Vilius for all his hard work over …
Prove Pathfinder were delighted to welcome the CEO of the UK Space Agency, Paul Bate, to our lab in Bristol last week. We had the …
PROVE Pathfinder is delighted to announce we have successfully been given the ‘Green Light’ for our testing campaign at ESA’s CubeSat Support Facility in ESEC-Galaxia …
PROVE Pathfinder is pleased to present our mission patch. This was designed by our team to visually highlight key aspects of the PROVE Pathfinder mission, …
PROVE stands for the Pointable Radiometer for the Observation of Volcanic Emissions. It is an Earth observation payload proposed by the UoBSat team at the …