Previously funded by NATO to carry a synthetic aperture radar, Bluesat's High-Altitude Balloon launches have successfully returned since the COVID slowdown. In July 2025, the team successfully carried out its first launch, gathering more than 100,000 data points and reaching a peak altitude of 34.1 km during its two-hour and thirty-one-minute flight. Building on this success, the team is getting ready for its second launch in December 2025 with significant upgrades including a cleaner inflation rig and active telemetry. Moving forward, we hope to carry payloads for both our own satellite project and wider research applications.

Recently, Bluesat has seen the return of our Offworld Robotics project and in April 2025 we entered our first rover challenge since 2019, the Australian Rover Challenge. Following the great success of the competition, our sights have been set on hardening existing systems and improving our rover mechanically, electrically, and in software, so we can have an even more reliable and efficient rover at ARCh next year.

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.