At the year 1998, in a small conference taken place at Hawaii. It was the first Uiversities Space Systems Symposium, an it took place between the 10 to the 11 of November. Nearly 50 students and faculty from 12 Japanese and U.S. universities attended this event. Nearly 50 students and faculty from 12 Japanese an U.S. universities attended this event. It was then when Bob Twiggs from Standford University proposed the initial idea of what it would be the Nano-Satellites projects. That idea was to launch a can size structure (350mL, 500g) into orbit. The chief point of this first plan was launching them into orbit, but due to the difficulties it caused it turned up to be the project called ARLISS.
The project evolved to a more complex situation, it was the comeback missions, which aimed to let the students make a gps system that could make the “can” go back to a target point. This idea was really successfully since that on the year 2002 the closest one did not reached the target for 45 meters, and on the year 2006 with a rover type it got up to 6 meters.
The ARLISS project started on the year 2002 with the first launch at the Nevada desert (Black Rock desert). It consisted on shooting the sats to a 4 Kilometer heigth and studying data while it came down.
On 2004 a new progress was made on the competition, it was the fact that the organisation gave the participants the pilot version, they where twelve “CanSat Kits”.
Another competition was the one held by the Argentines on the 8 of July of 2002. It is the ACEMA and GAOC ( since 1996) CanSat competition. On the year 2003 it gave way to the ANTARES project, that consisted on putting a camera on the sat and taking pictures during the flight. on the year 2004 there was designed a new tool to make students learn, it was the DPD ( documento preliminar de diseño).
The evolution of this competition gave about six CanSats, whose names were: SIRIO, PROCYON, S/N (2005), RIGEL, ALHEMA and VH (2006).
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