About the International CanSat competition

The International CanSat competition which will be held in Madrid is just about to reach its registration deadline. You can still make your own team's inscription before the 15th April. This competition is sponsored by the UPM Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

This competition differ from the ESA CanSat competition in some ways. For example, there are some different categories, such as the following:

Come-back: the CanSat must navigate to end as close as possible to the specified target. The movement must be autonomous.

Telemetry: the CanSat must send data in the flight. Among others, an identity code of 4 bits, altitude, temperature, acceleration, GPS location, other 3 digital signals and the sense of two events: the launch of the rocket and the parachute deployment.

Planetary Probe: the CanSat must take relevant data from the Earth as if it was on an unknown planet.

Scientific experimentation: the CanSat does some kind of test to any subsystem.

The CanSats are only launched if it is able to accomplish 80% of the objectives specified on the CDR (Critical Design Review).

You can read the full bases here.

Via International CanSat Competition

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