hoticeproject

Welcome to our blogg! In this blogg you will be able to read about our TEAM:s contribution to the CanSat competition 2010. What this competition is about you can read about below:

"CanSats offer a unique opportunity for students to experience their first real space-related project. Up to 10 teams will be selected to build their own small ‘satellite’ with the help of a kit in the form of a soda can and then have the opportunity to launch it on a rocket from the Andøya Rocket Range in Norway.
The CanSats will be required to complete a primary task of measuring temperature and pressure during the flight and a secondary mission of the students’ choice that may include attitude control, return to a target point on the ground, differential GPS measurements, or any other innovative experiment.
The European CanSat competition is part of ESA’s initiative to inspire young people to follow a career in science or engineering, with a view to ensuring the availability of a highly qualified work force in the space industry of the future.
The competition will offer a unique experience by enabling dialogue and interaction between students, as well as encouraging an element of competition between teams from many different countries."

This passage comes from the ESA homepage and if you want to read more about the competition you can do so here: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMR59AK73G_0.html.

Only one TEAM from our school, Rymdgymnasiet (Space High School), will be participating in this competition, so the pressure is on to be able to put together the best and most interestant project.

It took a while for our TEAM to figure out what we would want to send up with the ESA-rocket and everything from fisheyes to spiders was discussed. After a lot of searching and discussing we finally decided upon a so called "Hot Ice" experiment.

To see what a "Hot Ice" experiment can look like; feel free to check out our video below!