GU Orbit presents two papers at IAC 2025
Published: 31 October 2025
31 October 2025 - The UofG student satellite society has presented two papers at the latest International Astronautical Congress in Sydney, Australia
We are excited to share that members of GU Orbit (a UofG student engineering society)
presented two papers at International Astronautical Congress 2025 (IAC 2025), held in
Sydney from September 29th to October 3rd.
This marks a continued presence at the conference for the society, showcasing student-led innovation on an international stage. The papers, titled “High Altitude Balloons as a Low-Cost Platform for CubeSat Subsystem Development” and “Enhancing Path Planning for High Altitude Balloon Missions: Strategies for Improved Trajectory Accuracy and Payload Recovery”, highlighted the team’s technical work and mission planning in preparation for the upcoming Cloudview-02 high-altitude balloon flight. Both papers were presented as part of the IAC’s student and small satellite technical sessions, earning recognition for their clear methodology and practical impact on future low-cost space missions.
The first paper focused on the use of high-altitude balloons as a testbed for CubeSat subsystems, offering an accessible and affordable pathway for subsystem validation prior to orbital deployment. The second paper detailed the team’s development of an improved path planning framework to enhance trajectory prediction and payload recovery, addressing a key challenge in balloon missions.
These projects reflect months of interdisciplinary collaboration between students in aerospace, electronics, software, and mechanical engineering. The work forms a core part of GU Orbit’s Cloudview-02 mission, which aims to downlink live telemetry during a stratospheric flight while demonstrating multiple CubeSat technologies.
Congratulations to the GU Orbit team for their outstanding achievement in bringing student-led research to a global audience and for representing University of Glasgow at one of the world’s leading space conferences.
For more details on GU Orbit’s missions and research activities, visit the team’s website and
social media channels.
IAC-25,C1,IP,15,x100061 - Enhancing Path Planning for High-Altitude Balloon
Missions: Strategies for Improved Trajectory Accuracy and Payload Recovery
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52202/083087-0097
IAC-25,B4,IP,46,x100098 - Sounding Balloons as a Low-Cost Platform for CubeSat
Subsystem Validation: Insights from the Cloudview Missions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52202/083084-0129
First published: 31 October 2025
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