VegaSat

VegaSat

Testing our cansat

On Tuesday, 20. 6. our team visited the Aerodium vertical wind tunnel in Logatec, who have kindly allowed us to test our CanSat in their facility. Our parachute performed exceptionally well, but unfortunately, we ran into some issues with the battery so we couldn’t test our motors. The next

Reports

This post contains the 2 main documents we needed to submit to the ESA before the launch campaign. Critical Design Review (CDR) was submitted on 30th March and contains our idea of guided landing described in detail and the Pre Launch Report (PLR) that was submitted on 9th June and

Making of the guidance transmitter

Today we'll write about how we made on-ground transmitters for the direction of our CanSat to the target landing location. To begin with, let's explain our system in more detail. We will position 3 transmitters to known locations in advance of the takeoff. Because they all will transmit FM signal

The past month

Hello readers, it's been a while. We thought you might want to know what we've been up to during this time and, oh boy, we've been busy. During March, we were jump scared by the fast-approaching deadline for the Critical design report, which was at the end of said month.

Test of DTMF guidance system

At today's meeting, our team performed a test of the DTMF system that is the base of our guiding system. DTMF or dual-tone multi-frequency signalling was used in old telephones. Even now some phones can beep differently based on what number you pressed. Every digit, characters * and # and letters A

Our first meeting with ESA

Yesterday, 11.1.2023, we met with members of the commission from the European Space Agency and the Slovakian team, which is enrolling in the CanSat competition for the first time this year. We presented our secondary mission to the commission and admired the very interesting goals the Slovakian team