They are both easy to imagine, but what about a combination of both?
That is what the CanSat competition does. Students from all over the worl have the opportunity to have an experience of a real space mission. Their objective is to fit inside a soda can an entire satellite, including every single thing a satellite needs to be controlled, such as power, communications, software... They will need to work as a team and develop skils such as technichal design, data analysis or software programming in order to meake the CanSat work.
The main objective of the CanSat is to be thrown from a rocket, perform a specific mission and a secondary mission and then land safely on a land base.
I am glad to introduce our team Rosseta-Can to the 2015 European CanSat competition.
Good Luck!
A CanSat descending is shown in the image
