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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.
Project SunbYte

Sheffield students venture out of this world to capture shots of the sun

A team of engineering students from the University of Sheffield and neighbouring universities have successfully launched a self-made telescope 25km into space and captured images of the sun.
Working on equipment

SunbYte 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.

| Published by Northumbria University
Sunbyte two launch

BBC Interview at National Astronomy Meeting, Hull

We told Phil White of BBC Humberside Radio about SunbYte on the last day of the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Hull. Our interview takes place around 35:30 into the show.

| Published by the BBC
Project sunbyte ready for launch

Engineering students reach for the sun with revolutionary solar telescope

University of Sheffield engineering students aim to revolutionise solar astronomy.

| Published by engineering.com
Sunbyte two CAD model

Project SunbYte: solar astronomy on a budget

The Sheffield University Nova Balloon Lifted Solar Telescope (SunbYte) is a high-altitude balloon experiment devised and run largely by students at the University of Sheffield, and is scheduled for launch in October 2017.

| Published by Astronomy and Geophysics, The Royal Astronomical Society