The primary mission is measuring air temperature and pressure which is the same for all teams competing in the cansat competiton.
Our secondary mission is the creation of a versatile delivery platform to be used scientifically or otherwise, and the design of a mission to make use of it. In order to achieve this we need to meet the following goals.
• Our CanSat will perform an autonomous, targeted, GPS guided landing by ram - air parachute and provide flight telemetry data such as distance to target or required direction.
• It features two way communications to the ground station. Apart from the constant incoming telemetry, commands can be send to our CanSat, changing parameters like the flight scenario or the target, in real time.
• Modular design. Our CanSat (flight module) can carry and deliver any compatible module (payload module) to the target. Payloads are easily interchangeable and operate completely independent, in every aspect, from the flight module.
• We created a compatible scientific payload module to assess the possibility of life on another planet. This is achieved by measuring a range of abiotic factors like light intensity (RGB), UVA radiation, Volatile organic compounds, humidity, CO2, magnetic field strength, pressure and temperature.
• A 30fps fullHD camera will record the ground during the descent. Video frames will be used for surveying the landscape by creating a composite image.
Our secondary mission is as much about establishing a planets suitability for life, as is about using our flight module with all its capabilities.
At space missions on another planet many flight modules with a different payload each, can be ejected from a mothership to land at different locations. Two way communications can change the target or the parameters midflight. An implementation could be the spread of small geophones to map the seismic activity of a planet from different locations. This could be also the case on inaccessible volcanos on earth.
Another implementation is the targeted delivery of medicine or com devices on mulitiple locations from a simple airdrop at disaster areas.
Our choice for a payload was the measurement of abiotic factors necessary for life. The combined measurements will show us.
Inspiration for our mission came with the hurricanes that battered the US on September. Planes are known to drop data gathering devices into the storm from tubes inside the plane. We thought about the possibility of multiple deliveries from a single drop from a plane and took it a step further. A standard flight module would drop production cost and interchangeable modules to go with it, made it versatile. The life suitability part of our mission was inspired by the discovery of the Trappist-1 star system that contains possibly habitable planets.
Our secondary mission is the creation of a versatile delivery platform to be used scientifically or otherwise, and the design of a mission to make use of it. In order to achieve this we need to meet the following goals.
• Our CanSat will perform an autonomous, targeted, GPS guided landing by ram - air parachute and provide flight telemetry data such as distance to target or required direction.
• It features two way communications to the ground station. Apart from the constant incoming telemetry, commands can be send to our CanSat, changing parameters like the flight scenario or the target, in real time.
• Modular design. Our CanSat (flight module) can carry and deliver any compatible module (payload module) to the target. Payloads are easily interchangeable and operate completely independent, in every aspect, from the flight module.
• We created a compatible scientific payload module to assess the possibility of life on another planet. This is achieved by measuring a range of abiotic factors like light intensity (RGB), UVA radiation, Volatile organic compounds, humidity, CO2, magnetic field strength, pressure and temperature.
• A 30fps fullHD camera will record the ground during the descent. Video frames will be used for surveying the landscape by creating a composite image.
Our secondary mission is as much about establishing a planets suitability for life, as is about using our flight module with all its capabilities.
At space missions on another planet many flight modules with a different payload each, can be ejected from a mothership to land at different locations. Two way communications can change the target or the parameters midflight. An implementation could be the spread of small geophones to map the seismic activity of a planet from different locations. This could be also the case on inaccessible volcanos on earth.
Another implementation is the targeted delivery of medicine or com devices on mulitiple locations from a simple airdrop at disaster areas.
Our choice for a payload was the measurement of abiotic factors necessary for life. The combined measurements will show us.
Inspiration for our mission came with the hurricanes that battered the US on September. Planes are known to drop data gathering devices into the storm from tubes inside the plane. We thought about the possibility of multiple deliveries from a single drop from a plane and took it a step further. A standard flight module would drop production cost and interchangeable modules to go with it, made it versatile. The life suitability part of our mission was inspired by the discovery of the Trappist-1 star system that contains possibly habitable planets.