The American Astronautical Society (AAS) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) have organized an annual student design-build-launch competition for space-related topics. The competition is available to university students from the United States, Canada and Mexico. Although similar competitions exist for other fields of engineering (robots, radio-control airplanes, racing cars, etc.), most space-related competitions are paper design competitions. While these are worthwhile, they do not give students the satisfaction of being involved with the end-to-end life cycle of a complex engineering project, from conceptual design, through integration and test, actual operation of the system and concluding with a post-mission summary and debrief. This competition fulfills that need!
This annual competition allows teams from universities and high schools to design and build a space-type system, according to the specifications released by the competition organizing committee, and then compete against each at the end of two semesters to determine the winners.
Join the yahoo group: cansatcomp
Applications Due October 31, 2007
>> PDR Due February 15, 2008 <<
CDR Due May 9, 2008
Launch June 13-15, 2008
Launch Location is Amarillo, Texas
Updated August 7, 2007
