Mission: Planetary Atmospheric Entry Vehicle
2012 Mission
The mission is to launch an autonomous cansat with a deployable lander containing one large raw hen egg. The cansat consists of two parts, the carrier and the lander. The carrier holds and releases the lander. The term "cansat" shall refer to the complete system - the carrier and lander.
The cansat will be deployed from a rocket at an altitude of about 610 meters (2001 feet). Once released from the rocket, the cansat shall shall descend between 10 and 20 meters per second using any type of descent control system or device. At an altitude of 200 meters, cansat shall reduce the descent rate to within 4 and 6 meters per second. At 91 meters altitude, the cansat carrier shall release the lander that contains one large raw hen's egg. The lander shall land without damaging the egg. The lander cannot free fall. It must contain a descent control system or device to reduce the descent rate to less than 10 meters per second. The carrier telemetry data may be stored on-board for post processing in the event of a communications failure.
Teams must build their own ground station. Telemetry from the carrier shall be displayed, in real-time, on a team-developed ground control station.
Cansat_2012_Competition_Guide-19.pdf
Cansat 2012 PDR Outline (Rev. 04).pptx
Cansat 2012 CDR Outline (Rev. 04).pptx
Due to the nearly doubling in the number of teams, presentations will be scaled down. The updated presentations slides have some pages marked with a star. Only the marked slides are to be presented. Presentations are to be done by teleconference. It is hoped the presentations can be kept to about a half hour duration. The other slides will be scored so they must be clear and understandable.
Below is the PDR calendar. The calendar identifies available time slots in green for the presentations. Pick three time slots and submit them to your mentor. Your mentor will determine which time slot is available in the master calendar and you will be notified once a time slot has been chosen. You need to choose by the end of Friday.
