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Official Twitter account of Project SunbYte, Sheffield University Nova Balloon Telescope. #BEXUS team!

Sheffield, England
Joined November 2016
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Arrived at NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility. #NASA #CSBF #UniversityofSheffield #SunbYte
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CADing the fine focuser.
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Focusing to fine tune the focusing system.
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The eagle has landed! Thank you to everyone who has sponsored and supported us throughout this project and everyone who has been following!
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Of course, since it is a student project, we've always been in contact with the hardworking people at @ESA__Education
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One more time! @REXUSBEXUS is realised under a bilateral Agency Agreement between the @DLR_de and #SNSB. Collaborating with @esa... 1/2
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That's it! We are flying! One year of really hard work is closing to an end. Now, to the groundstation!!! #goSunbYte
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We are launching in about 20 min!! watch live at our facebook page or at the @SSCspace site esrange.insupport.se/?platfo… #goSunbYte
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We are now live in Facebook! Come by and watch hard work take place at #Esrangespacecenter #goSunbYte
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Successful cold test! Motor and driver frozen to -18C and still working! #goSunbYte
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Successful electromechanical test of the yaw axis including the mounted telescope! #goSunbYte
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#SundayFunday has always been the favourite working day for Soft/Elec teams. Today, sensor integration! #goSunbYte
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Tough weekend for #SunbYte as we prepared a temporal assembly for electronics vacuum testing at @NorthumbriaUni
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New materials were finished today, thanks to Stuart Richards from the #Diamond building Workshop, here at @sheffielduni. #goSunbYte!
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The Electrical team is working at full speed to overcome the limitations of its actuation system!
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