The Satellite Lab operates an automated ground station, located on the roof of Queen’s Building, that can receive and transmit data in the UHF and … Read more
This morning, George made his return to the airwaves. He joined Claire Cavanagh and our own Professor Lucy Berthoud on BBC Radio Bristol to discuss … Read more
Yesterday, our project manager, Tom, was invited back onto the John Darvall show on BBC Radio Bristol to answer one of the public’s burning questions. … Read more
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 … Read more
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
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 … Read more
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
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Our first update on technical things. This time from the structures team looking at the process of drilling sensitive optical components – at PROVE Pathfinder, … Read more
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
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more