So, what happened with our team this year?

🏆 2024 CanSat Competition

Last October, we started building a soda can-sized satellite for this year’s CanSat competition, with its main mission being the investigation of wind streams. Building a satellite is a complex yet incredibly exciting task, which our team successfully completed. On the final day (April 5, 2024), the BME Suborbitals team launched the top ten submitted projects (including our CanSat) to an altitude of nearly 1.5 kilometers using their Athena rocket.

The mission simulation of our satellite was successful, and we were required to prepare a presentation based on the collected data by the day after the finals. Our team won a technical special prize for our project.

🚀 To SPACE! Onboard the Hunity satellite...

After the conclusion of the 2024 CanSat competition, our team was given an opportunity by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, supported by the National Media and Infocommunications Authority, to design a passport photo-sized (4.5 cm * 3 cm) experiment for a real 3U-sized satellite. This satellite is planned to be launched to an altitude of 600 km aboard a rocket from the American company SpaceX in the fourth quarter of 2025.

Our team enthusiastically accepted the challenge, and after nearly six months of hard work, we completed our experiment, which focuses on measuring cosmic radiation through the analysis of a special fluid.

🛰️ 2025 CanSat Competition

In our lab, the development of our next CanSat satellite for the upcoming competition is already in full swing.

Our team has grown, and with three new helping hands, we are making progress in our work.