Facts on the Würzburg satellite SONATE-2. (Picture: Jonathan Männel / University of Würzburg)
Our AI #nanosatellite #SONATE-2 has been in orbit for two years! It completed its mission and is now still valuable for research and teaching. Congratulations @jmuspace.bsky.social @wuespace.bsky.social !
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🎉Celebrating 2 years operations of SONATE-2!🛰️ Funded by @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social and developed at @uni-wuerzburg.de 🎓Milestones: ✅ AI trained in space,📡operations from Würzburg with @wuespace.bsky.social, 🌍 Ham radio #APRS #SSTV, 💡spawned Start-up Pyxis Space pyxis-space.com 🚀
Team @wuespace.bsky.social has been developing a telemetry system for rockets! They are cooperating with other student teams on this as well. Do you want to learn more about the specifics of their project? Read all about it in our community post:
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Cover image of a stuffed blue axolotl on a rocket section with an experiment inside.
The blue axolotl next to a laptop showing the ground station frontend with telemetry data of the experiment.
Two members working on the experiment and their laptops inside a hotel room.
Three excited members playing with the stuffed axolotl in the lab
Meet Healy, our THRIVE mascot! 🦎 THRIVE just aced its final bench test in Oberpfaffenhofen. Our autonomous cooling system (-12°C) is validated and the experiment is officially flight-ready. THRIVE has been handed over—next stop: Sweden for our March launch campaign! 🇸🇪🚀
We believe in sharing knowledge, which is why many of our projects are Open Source. By publishing our work, we can contribute our research progress to other student teams and the wider scientific community.
The majority of our members have switched from Windows to Linux. Not only is the development experience for our hardware projects much smoother, but it also allows us to avoid proprietary software almost entirely.
Most of our web services are now self-hosted. For example, our team photos live in a self-hosted Immich instance. Thanks to our dedicated sysadmins, everything is running flawlessly! We even created some custom services like a tool to view our legal documents like the constitution of our club.
We moved away from Twitter, since the platform was directed towards disinformation and hate speech. Although we have less followers on Mastodon and Bluesky, we’ve found the communities to be much more welcoming and authentic.
Visual depiction of what steps have been taken
Today marks the first Digital Independence Day, and to spread the word, we’re sharing the steps we’ve taken toward digital sovereignty so far! 🚀
Two members of the THRIVE project working on their module for a rocket
Team photo of all THRIVE members present at the integration workshop
Thrive module in the rocket body next to a laptop showing data from the module
Two people working on electronics for the module
Over the past week, THRIVE had the opportunity to integrate and test our experiment module on REXUS 36 at ZARM in Bremen. For the first time, all subsystems and components came together on the rocket, and got verified as a complete system.
We passed the shaker test and are almost ready for launch!🚀
Image from a booth inside a big fair building. The students can be seen standing behind a table showcasing various experiments. A mobile rover is placed on the ground in the front.
Come visit us at Hack&Make at the #consumenta in Nürnberg. We are still here today and tomorrow, from 10:00 to 18:00. You can also check out many FabLabs and other makers from the area.
Thank you #fablabnuernberg for inviting us!
#wuespace #hackmake #hackmake2025 #consumenta2025 #aerospace
A color picture of earth taken in the visible optical spectrum by satellite SONATE-2. It shows a region around Campo Militar de Santa Margarida, some dozen kilometers in size, with bigger landmarks like rivers and country roads being recognizable below some layers of scattered clouds. An overlay in the top right corner reads: EUROC 400nm - 750nm VIS 12.10.2025 15:14 UTC Credit: SONATE-2
A black-and-whire picture of earth taken in the near infrared spectrum by satellite SONATE-2. It shows a region around Campo Militar de Santa Margarida, some dozen kilometers in size, with bigger landmarks like rivers and country roads being recognizable below some layers of scattered clouds. An overlay in the top right corner reads: EUROC 830nm - 889nm NIR 12.10.2025 15:14 UTC Credit: SONATE-2
Thanks to the satellite SONATE-2 that is being operated by students at @jmuspace.bsky.social, we were able take these amazing pictures of Campo Militar de Santa Margarida, where the European Rocketry Challenge (EUROC) took place!
#euroc25 #euroc #rocketry #sonate2 #wuespace #jmuspace #satellite
Want to publish using Typst? The workshop on modeling & verification of circuits and systems (March 17-18, Würzburg) encourages Typst submissions!
The deadline for German-language papers ends on 📅 Jan 19, 2026.
Group of 5 students standing behind a big blue "EUROC" sign
We have been invited by #ASTG to fly a payload on their hybrid #ispida rocket at #euroc this year. Thanks for having us!
As the launch date is approaching, members of our project #s2outh have arrived in Portugal, and are preparing our video and telemetry system - "the cube" - for integration.
A group of 14 students standing in front of an entrance to a congress building. Some of them hold plush mascots, a model satellite, and a laptop. A banner reading "Herzlich Wilkommen - DEUTSCHER LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRTKONGRESS" (German for "Welcome - GERMAN AEROSPACE CONGRESS") is placed above the entrance.
This week we visited #dlrk, a german aerospace congress. Alongside our friends at #warr, #auxspace, #erig, #sprog, and #ksat, we got to connect with actors in the german aerospace sector, and showed how students can participate in the field.
Huge thanks to #dglr for inviting us!
#dlrk25 #wuespace
Picture of the Moon cloaked in deep red, as happens during a lunar eclipse. Because the photo was taken shortly after sunset, the air was still shimmering with heat, creating subtle distortions
Have you seen Sunday’s lunar eclipse?
Our telescope captured this shot of the Moon cloaked in deep red.
As the photo was taken just shortly sunset, the air was still shimmering with heat, creating subtle distortions you can spot if you look closely.
#astrophotography #astronomy #moon #lunareclipse
A group photo of approximately 60 people in front of a big pavilion. In the middle is ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst. Some people are holding small rovers, a small rocket, or laptops. Many people wear merchandise of Wacken Open Air, and are gesturing the Metal Sign.
Two exhibition tables covered in aerospace hardware and informational material from DGLR and WüSpace. A member of WüSpace on the left explains an experiment to Alexander Gerst, who is stood on the right.
Wide angle photo of the inside of a big pavilion, giving an overview of the different exhibits in the Space Camp. You can see Small Rockets and Rovers in the back, with some benches and tables in the front. A couple of visitors and a couple of exhibitors are scattered around.
A group photo of 5 members of WüSpace behind their exhibition table, which houses different aerospace hardware from various projects of WüSpace.
We have been part of the #SpaceCamp at #Wacken 🤘
Besides showing metalheads what student aerospace is all about, we got to meet ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst!
A huge thanks to @wackenopenair.bsky.social and DGLR (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt) for having us. You rock! 🫶
#woa2025
Picture of the left hand of one of our members in front of a lab power supply. They are wearing a bunch of dupont wires in rainbow order around the arm as a bracelet.
🏳️🌈 Life hack: Dupont wires make for great DIY rainbow bracelets!
This year has shown us to what lengths people will go to show their hatred of LGBTQIA+ people. We stand with our queer siblings and count ourselves lucky to have so many in our club living their lives authentically!
Happy Pride!
ESD protected zone after we lost two Raspberry PI compute modules in less than 24h
1 day, 18 hours and 10 minutes until we launch our High-altitude balloon to test the S²OUTH rocket telemetry system
- Thrive: Building a container for biological samples in cooperation with @fraunhofer.bsky.social to launch on the REXUS rocket by @dlr-en.bsky.social
Current projects include:
- S²OUTH: creating a full telemetry system for the N2ORTH hybrid rocket build by our friends at HyEnD in Stuttgart (with a projected apogee of > 130km)
- RocketHD: building a WiFi based video transmission system for S²OUTH
Welcome to WüSpace (WueSpace). We are a space oriented student organisation based in Würzburg, Germany. More info on wuespace.de.
The telescope on the roof of the Geography building on the Hubland Campus of the University of Würzburg. (Photo: Tobias Herbst / University of Würzburg)
Our #telescope tracks #asteroids! This data is provided to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, USA. Congratulations @jmuspace.bsky.social @wuespace.bsky.social!
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