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Renewable Sources On Other Planets?
Continue reading: Renewable Sources On Other Planets?Our secondary mission with our Cansat is to theoretically land on a celestial object and investigate the amount of renewable sources on it, or even if it has any sources. This is important to space exploration because after we find that perfect goldilocks’ planet, there will be other complications with it, such as whether the…
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Parachute Design and Material
Continue reading: Parachute Design and MaterialTo ensure the highest chance of our CanSat not taking damage and having a smooth landing, we have opted for our CanSat to descend at a terminal speed of 8.0m/s. Our final parachute design will be a flat-pack hexagon design. We have chosen this design for a few reasons. Firstly, it is simple and relatively easy to…
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How Crucial is the Dismount of a Mission?
Continue reading: How Crucial is the Dismount of a Mission?“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” Said Frank Zappa, an American musician and composer. As has been seen with the recent failed Japanese Hakuto-R moon landing mission in 2023, and early last month with NASA’s failed Peregrine mission, the landing objective is the hardest within a mission, and…
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Athena Decoded: The Yagi-Uda Antenna
Continue reading: Athena Decoded: The Yagi-Uda AntennaOne of the most important systems in our CanSat is perhaps the communications system, in particular the ground antenna. But how exactly does this work? In this post we will provide a brief overview of the type of antenna we are designing. The Athena team had decided to use a pair of antennas-the one on…
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Our Harmony in Collaboration- The Art of Effective Teamwork
Continue reading: Our Harmony in Collaboration- The Art of Effective Teamwork“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” Said Harry Truman, the 33rd President of the United States. This quote highlights the importance of selflessness when being a part of the team. Our team has strived to adhere to this principle. Through triumph or failure, we always would…
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Why we are using C++ over MicroPython for our CanSat
Continue reading: Why we are using C++ over MicroPython for our CanSatDuring the research phase for our CanSat, we saw that a lot of teams using a Raspberry Pi Pico opted to use MicroPython or CircuitPython for their CanSats. In fact, the CanSat UK organisation recommends (or at least implies) using Python. However, we think that it is better to use C++, assuming you are confident…