Mission systems
Payloads
Scientific instruments and deployable robotic systems designed to fly, survive and return useful data.
Deployable robotic payload
Toirtis
Toirtis is a four-legged robotic payload built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and eight servos. Its legs fold tightly against the body for flight, then deploy to create a mobile platform after landing.
The mechanism packages the complete walking system into a compact stowed volume without sacrificing the range of motion needed on the ground.
- Flight computer
- Raspberry Pi 5
- Actuation
- 8 servos
- Mobility
- 4 folding legs
- Flight state
- Fully stowed
Stow · deploy · walk
Standalone cosmic-ray detector
Mu
Mu is a self-contained particle detector built to investigate how cosmic-ray count rate changes as a rocket climbs through the atmosphere. It carries its own power input, flash storage, pressure sensing and flight logger.
A plastic scintillator converts particle energy into light. A SiPM and custom analogue front end capture the resulting pulses, while an STM32 records timestamp, baseline, amplitude and waveform data alongside the flight profile.
- Detector
- 50 × 50 × 20 mm BC-408
- Photosensor
- 6 × 6 mm SiPM
- Bias
- ≈30 V
- Observed rate
- 18–31 events / min
Flight assembly · Mu v1.2
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HiPR payloads combine electronics, embedded software, sensing, mechanical design and flight operations.