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CSBF team preparing the payload

SunbYte IV - progress update

The design phase of the fourth edition of SunbYte is reaching completion.
A group photo of the team with the reviewer

The University of Sheffield students aim to revolutionise astrophysics observation

A team of students from the University of Sheffield is developing a low-cost telescope that will be lifted into space by a helium balloon to observe the Sun.

| Published by Engineering and Technology
Working on the prototype.

Stars in their eyes

SunbYte is a new student-led project with a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team that is designing, testing and manufacturing an inexpensive solar telescope that will be sent up into the atmosphere using a stratospheric balloon.

| Published by MechEngNews, Issue 13, page 10
A team member working to overcome problems

Student project set to shed light on the sun

Our understanding of the Sun and its impact on the Earth could soon become clearer thanks to a unique science project involving a Northumbria University student.

| Published by Northumbria University
Sunbyte two launch

Student space balloon project reaches new heights

Students from the University of Sheffield have won a prestigious international competition to develop a low-cost telescope to be lifted into space by a helium balloon to observe the Sun.