Create for Space – Quberider Project

Last week, the University of New South Wales’ head Quberider team sent a series of experiments into the stratosphere using a high altitude balloon. The data from these experiments will be sent to our Create for Space students in the next week so it can be examined. Examining this data will help students gain a better understanding of the kinds of data they need from their own experiments.

On Monday, we received the hardware that will be used to create, code and upload our space experiment. The space team, including Liam, Cameron, Harry and Isaac, has been busy assembling the Sagan and Raspberry Pi and learning to program the Rasbian (Debian for Raspberry Pi) operating system.

The team is now coding small modules to talk to the on-board sensors and camera and learn the limitations they face in their experiment designs. The scientific experiment itself will be run by the astronauts at the International Space Station and the resulting data will be returned to earth for analysis.

Mrs Janine Stone, Head of Information Technology