From 2017 to 2018, Bluesat built and maintained our K17 satellite tracking ground station as support for duration of the UNSW EC0 (QB50-AU02) cubesat mission, maintaining a mission critical data connection. Now, as a part of the development of our portable satellite tracking ground station, our team has repeatedly captured and processed data from NOAA satellites to test our capabilities and improve our members' understanding of the scope of this mission. Moving forwards we seek to extend this ground station's capabilities to maintaining an uplink and downlink connection with our high altitude balloon and later our own cubesat in low Earth orbit.

Previously funded by NATO to carry a synthetic aperture radar as a payload, Bluesat's high altitude balloon launches have returned since the COVID slowdown. With a new team we are starting from the ground up with interest from the University to carry a research payload and targeting various competitive research grants. Our high altitude balloon platform is rapidly coming to fruition and will see its first flight in the first quarter of 2025 with a 2 hour flight planned, reaching a max altitude of 35 km.

Recently, Bluesat has seen the return of our Offworld Robotics project and in 2025 we will be entering our first rover challenge since 2019. For this, we have put together a highly motivated team, most of which have previous experience with competitive rovers, to bring Bluesat back to the peak of competitive robotics. Following the Australian Rover Challenge, we will be targeting the European Rover Challenge once again and University Rover Competition internationally to further develop our platform.

Despite a brief slowdown over the COVID-19 pandemic and off-campus learning, Bluesat has returned stronger than ever. Demonstrating this to the world was our entrance of a payload in the Spaceport America Cup in the United States; a joint venture with UNSW Rocketry. Our 4U cubesat form factor DLP 3D printer designed to work in microgravity preventing cavitation and be insensitive to pressure changes won us an honourable mention by the judges in a competition where much of the judging was done based on the rockets themselves. Our payload was flown to 30,000 ft and returned safely on UNSW Rocketry's “Archangel”.