Nordic ESERO CanSat Competition 2015 (Day 3)

It was planned that we were going to launch our CanSat using a rocket. However, this didn't happen as there were very strong winds and it was snowing. Instead, we got to try a stimulated rocket and spaceship launch. Where we toke on the roles of the personel of the science center, mission control, payload integration and the spaceship team. This was a great deal of fun and gave us an insight into the work that it takes to launch a rocket and how pressed for time these people are during a launch.

Sigurd and Tobias at the Science Center

Spaceship

Anna was the Earth Observator on the spacecraft

Overview of stimulation set-up

As the weather did not improve in the afternoon, we did a drop test rather than a launch, so that ever team had data to present during their final presentation, if the weather did not get better the next day. Our drop test was a success. We received all our telemetry data and it matched the data stored on the SD-card built-in our CanSat. All our sensors worked expect for our camera, that was planned to film the drop and show us if the spectrometer was looking at the sky or the ground. However, as stated in our Design Document planned operation of the camera was not vital for the mission. We then processed the data and prepared our final presentation for the following day. 

Teams preparing for drop test

Here Tobias and Anna are assembling the CanSat

Tobias and Morten collecting data

Our CanSat falling to the ground

Team AnaCan Skywalker processing data