CanSat Competition
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 and college students from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. 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 colleges 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.
Check out the Friday Workshop
Join the Yahoo Group: cansatcomp
High Schools interested in an aerospace competition, go to the Battle of the Rockets
Launch Location for 2010 is Amarillo, Texas
June 11 - 13
Updated January 19, 2010
What is updated:
Comms Guide has been posted
PDR, CDR, and PFR outlines fixed and updated
PDR Presentation Scheduling Due Feb 1, 2010
PDR Materials Due Feb 12, 2010
CD Presentation Scheduling Due March 29, 2010
CDR Materials Due April 9, 2010
