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Warwick students accepted onto space programme
By Chris Smith Tuesday 18 February 2014 Updated: 18/02 09:23
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A GROUP of Warwick University students have joined the space race.
The team of third and fourth-year engineering students have designed and a
built a satellite that will be launched 100km into space in spring next year.
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They are among nine university projects chosen to be on board the European
Space Agency (ESA) rocket REXUS which will take off from the Swedish
National Space Centre Esrange.
The satellite - known as WUSAT2 (Warwick University Satellite Team) and
measuring just 10cm x 10cm x 20cm - will contain their own electronics,
communications and sensor systems to carry out an experiment suggested by
a team of physicists at Warwick who hunt for planets outside our solar system
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"Now we’ve been selected our work has only just started. We have to design
and build the satellite and all its electronic and communication systems, no
mean feat seeing as the final satellite will measure just a few centimetres.
"But we’re all hugely excited about the launch as it’s not every day you get to
take part in a space mission."
The Warwick Satellite Team is a long-running project within the School of
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It will look at gases such as oxygen and sodium, and the brightness of
sunlight at different heights as it falls back to Earth above the Arctic Circle.
"As far as we are aware we are the only solely undergraduate team to have
been chosen to launch their own experiment into space with ESA," said 22year-old Oliver Vavasour, who is a former pupil at The Revel Primary in
Monks Kirby and Lawrence Sheriff School in Rugby.
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Engineering which spent six years designing the electrical power supply
system for ESA’s ESMO satellite designed to orbit the moon.
It is now in the second year of designing and building Warwick’s own satellite
with a team of students launching WUSAT1 30km above Earth’s surface
using a balloon launch last year.
Director Dr Bill Crofts said: “Being selected for the ESA launch is a great
achievement on behalf of all the students in the group.
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"We want our engineering students to get hands-on experience of working on
the kinds of projects they will be working on when they go out into the
working world after graduation.
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"It’s this experience, as well as the engineering knowledge the students are
gaining, that is very valuable to employers."
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Oliver Vavasour, from Monks Kirby, is part of the Warwick Uni team whose satellite
will be launched into space next year (s)
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