With the new school year, begins a new edition of the competition organized by ESA and ESERO – CanSat. As every year, SKN SpaceCoffee fields a representative team composed from the members of the Club. This time, there’s even three of the teams!

Meet our three CanSat teams:

SpaceCoffee

They are the currently oldest members of the Club. Since the group is partly formed by previous CanSat contestants, they’re determined to finally come out on the top in the competition and reach finals. The secondary mission of their CanSat is an exploratory one – a system for searching for earth-like alien life. Their probe will be equipped with specialized meters and will serve to analyse concentration of gases and other elements of a planet’s atmosphere, in order to determine if the conditions are suitable or not to support development of organisms of origin similar to that which Earth displays. Along with the sensors, the CanSat will use a camera meant to search for regular patterns and symmetry, that is distinctly a part of or a creation of living organisms. Through image data analysis, using a dedicated algorithm, they will detect the patterns on a planet’s surface and their cause will be assessed.

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SpaceReeds

This team are SpaceCoffee members currently in the second grade of high school. They hope to prove their engineering and programming skills with their CanSat’s secondary mission: they will develop a wireless communication system with a relay in the form of an airborne satellite. It’s meant for easier communication in hard-to-reach areas, such as mountainous regions, providing crucial support for mountain rescue teams or researchers and significantly improving the efficiency and safety of their work. The “reed” in the team name references the unique root formation of reeds that create net-like structures – representing the CanSat’s networking system.

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Velocity Hunters

A team composed of our youngest and latest recruits – this year’s first-graders. They’re an ambitious bunch, ready to take up the challenges posed by the contest. For their secondary mission, they’ve chosen terminal velocity measurement. The parameter is important for predicting the behavior of falling debris in an atmosphere or the speed of re-entry capsules. It also aids in designing effective braking systems that can safely manage descent speeds, enhancing safety during space missions.

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