Tuesday 27 October 2015

Sketches 003-004

Sketch 003
Secondary Mission Finalised Proposal

Sketch 004
Secondary Mission Finalised Aim and Basis

Tuesday 20 October 2015

Sketches 001-002

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Sketch 001
Secondary Mission Initial Proposition

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Sketch 002
Secondary Mission Aim and Basis

Saturday 10 October 2015

Outreach Programme

For our outreach section, the team will be managing their online presence on Twitter and Vimeo -links can be found at the bottom of this page-  positing regular updates, sketches, designs and tutorials on various aspects of the project.

To gain publicity for the team, we are planning on initially raising awareness within our school to get people interested in our team, and to inspire the younger pupils to form their own teams in the future. After this, we hope to publish a short article about our project and team in local papers and or newsletters, as well as local advertisers.

The best way to keep up to date is to visit this blog, where our most recent tweets are displayed and any videos posted on Vimeo will also be posted on here. We will also allow our progress reports to be downloaded on our Documents page.

If you wish to contact us you can mail us at cansataurora@gmail.com, or tweet us!

Sunday 4 October 2015

One Small Step

After weeks of spitballing and library installations the team is finally ready to begin construction on the CanSat. A few things have changed from our initial specification for the project, mainly concerning the secondary mission. We have decided to focus mainly on a targeted landing system, where the CanSat will use GPS to locate itself, and will then move itself in relation to a defined landing spot using wings/parafoil (TBD). As well as this, an accelerometer will be included to calculate how long it takes for the satellite to reach its maximum velocity/average force acted upon CanSat by gravity. We will also try and include solar panels within the project to power some components. This however is just an initial proposition for the mission, and may vary until we confirm it later next week.

We'll be spending the majority of our time now completing the primary mission to get it out of the way, giving us more time to spend on our secondary mission. To try and gain publicity for our team, we are promoting the blog within the school, and plan on giving talks to physics/computing enthusiasts in lower years in the school.

Over the next 4 weeks the first progress report will be compiled, which will include various sketches and designs of our CanSat shell and electronics, as well as information on how we plan to tackle our secondary mission. The progress indicators will be updated on the blog regularly, and the report will be available on October 31st.