surprise!

We are very pleased to announce that "Sparkasse Bremen" (a German bank) will support our project with 1800€.
We are very much looking forward to this generous support as part of the "Bremen macht Helden" sponsorship program of Sparkasse Bremen.

How is it going now?

After, or by winning the German CanSat competition, we are qualified for the European level. But what does it mean now? What goals have we set ourselves? The "actual" European CanSat competition 2017 with the rockets launching and presentations will take place in Bremen, Germany from 28.06.17 until 02.07.17. The working time for these intensive days has already begun. There were two interesting candidates: Portugal or Norway. As a result of the competition being "international", we will continue our blog in English . What goals have we set ourselves? We have to do a little fine operations on the hardware as well as on the software. In concrete terms, this means for the hardware, the following: First, that the rate of measurement errors at the sensors has to be minimized or eliminated. Second,  to select and install a new camera (ISO values ​​have to adapt more quickly - further minimize the green hue/tint on our pictures , the shake and the blur). Third, the reliable wireless connection of the CanSats could still be increased (works so far with a reliability of approx. 70%). Fourth, computer has to be changed, because the Raspberry Pi 2 from the RAM is not enough for our program or takes too much time. This is dependent on the improving progress of the software. So it could happen that we have to change our design again.

We have a reason to celebrate !!!

Today, after the very interesting tour of the Airbus, the award ceremony took place. Beforehand is to say that the distance between the teams was very tight.

We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded the 1st place in the German CanSat competition 2016. In doing so, we have qualified for the participation as representatives of Germany in the European competition.

We are all very much looking forward to it and would like to thank our sponsors - "encoway" and our school club -, which have made our success possible.

Our certificate

Evaluation and presentations

Today the presentations of the results of our missions took place. It was very interesting to watch the 10 minute long presentation of each team and to compare our results / conclusions with them.

5, 4, 3, 2,1 - Here we go!

Today was the big day where all satellites ,always two of them in a rocket were allowed to start.The launch took place at the airport Rotenburg (Wümme).

360° panorama from the airfield .Click to enlarge the picture

Impressions of the two first days of the competition

Since monday ,the week of the competition has already started. The opening event took place in Bremen / Germany exactly at ZARM (directly under the Bremer Fallturm/fall tower). And there, we finally had the opportunity to meet the 9 other CanSat teams from all over Germany and also to inspect the fall tower.

Results of sponsoring search

We are very glad to announce that we have found another sponsor next to our school club!

Our new sponsor is the software development company encoway GmbH and we are very grateful for their financial support in the amount of 500 €.

We appreciate it!

Results of sponsoring search

We wanted to let you know that our school’s association will provide us with financial support.
In addition to the already sponsored 100 € entry fee, we have been secured again up to 200 €. We are very happy about this.

Test of the radio link

At our last meeting we tested the radio link between our CanSat and the ground station.

Power Weekend

Interested in what is meant?

Alexander von Humboldt discovered ...

This was the motto of our school festival, which took place on the premises of our school on Thursday, the 1st of September. Of course, we were also represented there with a booth.

Slowly, it takes a shape ...

Today, we continued working on how we can accommodate our hardware in the CanSat.
Our current basic internal organization so far provides the following:

• black: Outer shell
• pink: Recovery system
• red: lithium-ion cells
• orange: Raspberry Pi 2
• green: area for the sensors

In the next few days we will continue to work on the organization of the sensor area.