CurbAll Space – Curbing Risks, Ensuring Safe Returns
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Curball Space Program is a team from Vasa Övningsskola who are participating in the CanSat competition held in Vaasa 27.-30.3.2025. The project entails building a satellite the size of a can, that should have the equipment to complete objectives set by both a jury and the team.
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Curball on his way back to Earth.
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Who we are
We are a small group of IB students from Vasa Övningsskola who have decided to take part in this project under some minor guidance of our physics teacher. The ground station, CanSat, and marketing team are all represented by 3 people each.
The idea to participate in CanSat came from getting to see a presentation by the Mad Mars Musketeers in school. They took part in the project 2024 and succeeded very well. To us it seemed like a fun project with good intentions and a possibility to learn and make memories.
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Goals
Primary mission
- Measure air temperature
- Measure air pressure
- Calculate altitude
- Receive data collected over radio
- Make graphs of all three parameters with data received over radio
Secondary mission
- Make a self-adjusting antenna, to be able to follow the path of the spacecraft and be able to predict where it lands
The reason behind why we have chosen this secondary mission is that reusable aircraft is a rising business. We want to stop the decommissioned satellites from becoming space junk and instead safely de-orbit them. Our tracking program would enable satellite operators to track their path in the atmosphere, determine if everything burned up during re-entry and if there is immediate danger for populated areas. The possible debris can then be retrieved in order to make the satellite business more environmentally friendly.
We want to construct a small device that can easily be put in a satellite, that would enable tracking of the satellite as it re-enters Earth's orbit. The reason as to why this is an issue, is due to the communicative issues that the plasma of the Earth imposes, but as we want antennas placed all over the world to track the path of the decommissioned satellites, it would be easier to predict a landing site. This global network of highly specialized tracking antennas, and people would be able to purchase our on-board tracking unit and subscribe to our tracking system for a monthly/annual fee to access these antennas, which act both as trackers but also able to communicate with your satellite through the plasma.
We want to construct a small device that can easily be put in a satellite, that would enable tracking of the satellite as it re-enters Earth's orbit. The reason as to why this is an issue, is due to the communicative issues that the plasma of the Earth imposes, but as we want antennas placed all over the world to track the path of the decommissioned satellites, it would be easier to predict a landing site. This global network of highly specialized tracking antennas, and people would be able to purchase our on-board tracking unit and subscribe to our tracking system for a monthly/annual fee to access these antennas, which act both as trackers but also able to communicate with your satellite through the plasma.
