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| | | | | | Student competition 'in the can' 23 August 2010
| High school students from different ESA Member States were able to watch their own ‘satellites’ soar into the sky aboard suborbital rockets during the first European CanSat competition, held at the Andøya Rocket Range in Norway on 16 August 2010. The CanSat competition was organised by ESA’s Education Office and the Norwegian Centre for Space-related Education (NAROM).
The selected teams had to build their own small CanSat ‘satellite’ in six months, with each team developing an experiment that would fit inside a 350 ml soft drink can. These investigations ranged from calculating variations in Earth’s magnetic field and tracking the Sun, to measuring solar radiation and levels of carbon dioxide.
The participating countries in the 2010 competition were Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Norway, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.
Credits: NAROM/ARR | | | | |
| | | | A CanSat is a simulation of a real satellite, integrated within the volume and shape of a soft drink can. | | | | |
| | | | One of the Intruder rockets carrying CanSats. | | | | |
| | | CanSats and Europe
| A CanSat descending from a parachute
Credits: CanSat Nederland | | | | |
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