CanSat in Cairo University

Around 1994 the Aerospace Engineering Department of Cairo University began its space experience. A group of Aerospace engineers joined to the development of EgyptSat 1, Egypt's first Earth remote- sensing satellite. The project was carried out by Egypt's National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences in collaboration with the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau from Ukraine. It was finally launched on 17 April 2007 in the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakstan.

This served as an impetus to projects with students interested in the space, projects such as CanSat, which was held in 2011 with the participation of three teams, in total, 20 students. It lasted for ten days. Their CanSats were launched with an interesting water rocket. Some of the components of the hardware were the Micro-Controller, a GPS, temperature sensor, a barometric pressure sensor, RF Communication Modules, a gyroscope, an accelerometer and a wireless camera, all of this added to the parachute. The most studied part of the data were those related to the altitude and the acceleration.

Moreover, in acknowledgement of their excellent work the Egyptian CanSat won the prize of the Best  Mechanical Engineering Project of the Egyptian Engineering Day, held by IEEE GOLD on September of the same year.