Adelaide-based space education start-up Robinson Aerospace Systems has partnered with French non-profit Space Elevator and commercial space company The Exploration Company to offer secondary school students worldwide the chance to participate in a real space mission launching in early 2025.
Project ‘Space Call’ will see students developing a symbolic payload that will fly within the Robinson Aerospace Systems CubeSat on The Exploration Company’s ‘Mission Possible’ capsule in early 2025. The space capsule will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California.
The project aims to engage students from across the globe, including Australia, Rwanda, Singapore, Ukraine, Colombia, the UAE and the United States.
The students will work with the three companies and Centrale Supélec University students in France to design and program a module that communicates using LEDs and Morse code. In orbit, these modules will engage in a “Telephone” game, passing messages in their native languages to generate a symbolic multilingual output after the mission.
“We’re honoured to be providing the payload bus and structure that will host Project Space Call during its launch to orbit,” said Edward Robinson, Founder and CEO of Robinson Aerospace Systems. When not participating in collaborations like this, Robinson provides educational satellite kits for high schools.
“It’s been incredible to work with the students involved as they develop their electronic modules and work towards the goal of reaching space,” added Robinson. “Everyone at Robinson Aerospace is extremely excited to be hosting Space Call on our first mission to space.”
