Our Space Infrastructure Systems (SIS) program focuses on the design and development of core satellite technologies. Including the exploration and construction of mechanical and electronic subsystems such as data collection, power management, communications, and more.
By combining theoretical knowledge with practical experience, SIS equips students with the skills needed for careers in the space sector. The program challenges members to think critically about sustainable space development and prepares them to help build the next generation of off-Earth technologies.
SIS supports students across all experience levels, offering hands-on projects and collaborative opportunities that contribute directly to real satellite missions and payload systems within the society.
SIS supports students across all experience levels, offering hands-on projects and collaborative opportunities that contribute directly to real satellite missions and payload systems within the society.
SATypus-ONE is QUTAS’s flagship project, a fully student designed CubeSat satellite. It is the first generation of the “SATypus” project (a play on “satellite” and “platypus”). Intended to be launched in April 2026 as a payload with the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC).
The launch vehicles is a suborbital rocket, making this satellite the first fully Australian undergraduate designed, tested and manufactured payload to reach space. The flight is expected to be 15 minutes total, with 7 of those minutes in micro gravity conditions allowing for unique telemetry and experiments.