A high-altitude balloon experiment conducted by final-year E&E engineering students. Launched from Saldanha Airfield, South Africa on 14 October 2017 at 09:04 CAT. Payload was retrieved successfully.
The ability to transport of unknown goods are investigated with advanced adaptive controllers. Griffon is the latest quadrotor built in the ESL to perform such experiments.
A translation stage is a useful method to generate control torques on solar sailing. A translation stage was designed and built for a CubeSat solar sailing mission with the resultant component being 22mm thick.