The IES Granadilla de Abona team wins the III CanSat Canarias competition, organized by the General Directorate of Planning, Innovation and Quality. It consists of the simulation of a real satellite integrated into the volume and shape of a soda can made by students from Canary Islands centers.
The GranSat III team, from the Granadilla de Abona Secondary School (IES), has been winner of the third edition of the CanSat regional competition Canary Islandswhich was organized by the Program for the Promotion of Scientific Vocations and Steam Creativity, of the General Directorate of Planning, Innovation and Quality, attached to the Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands. On this occasion, the participation reached 19 groups of students from eight public educational centers of the Archipelago.
GranSat III is made up of students María Angélica Rodríguez Santana, Mateo Reyes Delgado, Carlos Buján Fernández, Marcos Estévez Morales, Pablo Delgado Medina and Carlos Cano Rivero, who developed their proposal with the help of the center’s professor Félix Jonay Mayoral Gutiérrez.
The CanSat Canarias competition is an action of the European Space Agency (THAT) promoted nationally by Esero Spain, the European Office of Resources for Space Education in Spain, and in the Islands it is carried out at the initiative of the Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands.
The challenge is to put sensors, communication system and power supply
A CanSat is a device or system of the size of a soda can whose mission may be to collect data, make controlled returns, or fulfill some predetermined mission profile. Its main function is the teaching of aerospace technologies in schools and universities.
The challenge to the student
He challenge for students It consists of introducing its main subsystems, such as power supply, sensors and a communications system, into such a small space. The CanSat is then launched to a certain height, dropping it from a platform using a drone, tethered balloon, rocket, or any other method. It is then that its mission begins, which consists of the execution of a scientific experiment, achieving a harmless landing and the analysis of the data collected during the descent.
In this third edition of the regional competitionthe 19 finalist teams launched their satellites in the field of soccer La Atalaya, located in the municipality of Santa María de Guía, in Gran Canaria, near the Juan Arencibia Sosa Infant and Primary Education Center. For this they used drones, which they raised up to 100 meters. After the descent, the students proceeded to collect the data sent by their creations and the following day the teams presented to the jury, by videoconference, the results obtained by their CanSats.
Among the finalists is also the work ‘Orbit X’, from the IES Santa Ana, in Candelaria
This year, in this competition they have obtained other recognitions the HighQualSat groups, from the Canarias Cabrera Pinto Secondary Education Institute (IES) (La Laguna), for their technical achievements; Helios, from the IES Támara (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), for its scientific value; Astras, from IES the board I (San Bartolomé de Tirajana), for his professional skills; Órbita X, from the IES Santa Ana (Candelaria), for dissemination, and Achimencay, from the IES La Orotava-Manuel gonzalez Pérez, as an honorary award.
The GranSat III team of the Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria (IES) Granadilla de Abona is the representative of the Archipelago in the Spain CanSat 2023 national competition, which is held in Granada. In turn, the winner of the national championship will represent Spain in the European CanSat Launch Campaign 2023, which will take place at the end of June.
