Projects & Breakthroughs
From stratospheric balloon payloads and orbital CubeSats to hybrid rocket propulsion and autonomous planetary rovers, explore the official projects built by OrbitX engineers.
StratoSat — High-Altitude Weather Monitoring Balloon
StratoSat is a high-altitude balloon-based satellite designed to collect atmospheric data from the stratosphere. Equipped with environmental sensors, real-time telemetry transmission, and high-altitude photography payloads.
CubeSat-1 Mission
Our flagship 1U CubeSat project focused on Earth observation and atmospheric data collection. Features advanced multispectral imaging, UHF/VHF beacon transmission, and custom power distribution.
Hybrid Rocket Engine
Development of a hybrid rocket engine utilizing solid paraffin fuel and liquid oxidizer. Engineered to create a cost-effective, throttleable, and safe propulsion system for student rocketry and sounding rockets.
Ground Station Network & Automated Tracking
Establishing an automated ground station network for satellite communication, NOAA weather satellite imagery decoding, automated azimuth-elevation rotator tracking, and digital signal processing.
Mission Control Dashboard
A comprehensive web-based mission control dashboard for monitoring and controlling satellite missions. Features real-time telemetry stream ingest, orbital pass prediction, 3D attitude visualization, and command sequencing.
Advanced Materials Research for Spacecraft
Research into lightweight, radiation-resistant composite materials for space applications. Focus on developing carbon-fiber matrix structural plates and thermal barrier coatings for extreme orbital thermal cycling.
Ion Thruster Development
Development of an electric propulsion system using gridded electrostatic ion thruster technology. This project focuses on creating high-efficiency, high-Isp propulsion for micro-satellite station keeping.
Mars Rover Simulation & Rover Ares-I
A 6-wheel rocker-bogie autonomous rover platform and ROS 2 simulation pipeline engineered for terrain traversal, computer vision rock spectrometry, obstacle avoidance, and sample canister retrieval.