Hi Morse Micro community,
We’re the University of Technology Sydney Rocketry. We met some of the team at a recent event, and it got us thinking about whether Wi-Fi HaLow could work as a live telemetry link on a high-power rocket.
We’re creating a rocket for the upcoming Australian Universities Rocket Competition (AURC). It has a target apogee of around 10,000 feet and a student-researched and designed (SRAD) flight computer, camera control board, and a closed-actuation systems control board (for air brakes & parafoil recovery). We will have CAN bus communication between our boards and would love to see if we can use Wi-Fi HaLow to downlink telemetry alongside our LoRa.
The plan is to bridge CAN → a small Linux board → a HaLow radio → a ground station. The ground station would receive live GPS, altitude, acceleration and sensor data during the flight and recovery stages.
This would be a great test of HaLow at altitude and speed. Something we don’t think has been done before. We’d be running it alongside our primary avionics with LoRa, so there’s no safety dependency on the link, just a genuine experiment.
We’re a student team and don’t have the budget to purchase an eval kit ourselves. We’d love to know if Morse Micro would consider donating or loaning a kit to support the project. We have several industry sponsors and are producing a long-form documentary following the team from build to launch. In return for your support, we’d be happy to feature Morse Micro in the documentary, display your logo on the rocket and ground station, and publish full flight data and RF link results back to this community.
Here is the link to our GitHub if you want to track our progress!
Feel free to reply here or DM us. Thanks!
UTS Rocketry