Some Useful Clips

Comeback Cansat:
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Balloon Launcher:
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Rocket Launcher:
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Iran Cansat Competition

ARI Space Team will organize First Iran Cansat Competition with Aerospace Research Institute support. This competition is planned to be held about September 2011.
The Competition Prerequisites are:

- Balloon Launcher for Lower Altitudes Launch (about 500 m) both Standard and Open Class
- Rocket Launcher for High Altitude Launch (about 2 km) and only Standard Class
- Comeback Cansat (Feasibility Check for Design and Manufacturing of Such Cansat in Iran and in a Student Short time project)

Work will be start by June 5th and the team will be expanded to at least 10 members.

ICC Birth

Aerospace Research Institute Officials are so interested in giving Birth to the First Cansat Competition in Iran!
This competition will be held under ARI support and with Launching Mechanisms designed and manufactured in Iran by ARI Space Team.

Feasibility Process in going to be done in about a Month...

LEEM Competition

ARI Space Team has been attended in LEEM Cansat Competition.

Team Members:
- Sajjad Ghazanfarinia
- Mahsa Taheran
- Hooman Jazebizade
- Dr. Abolghasem Naghash (Advisor)

Iranian and French Teams

Iranian and Turkey Teams

All data about Competition, Teams and Rules can be found Here!

ARI Space Place 2nd in this competition by its Telemetry Cansat in Standard Class. (Full Results)

ARI Space Award in LEEM Competition

There is also some picture out of this competitions in this Slideshow,

and a video made by Cles Facil Cansat Team can be found in this link!

Telemetry Project - Final Tests

Getting Ready for LEEM Competition,
Final test on Recovery System Performance (Test Video),
and Recovery System 20g Shock Tolerance (Test Video)!

Here is also a Slideshow of applying Ideas in CANSAT Project!

Telemetry Project - Detailed Design

CANSAT Team has overcome New Year Holidays and Detailed Design has been finished in time.
CDR contains all details about whole Subsystems Design, Manufacturing and Tests.
By the time when CDR has been closed, Electronic Subsystem is under some tests and modifications.

CDR can be downloaded from here.

Telemetry Project - Preliminary Design

Preliminary Design Phase has been finished before deadline and the team made PDR ready.
Team is going to Submit its PDR to LEEM Competition Referees and besides Detailed Design of Recovery and Structure Subsystems has been started.

PDR can be downloaded frome here.

Telemetry Project - Conceptual Design

Weekly Sessions!
Telemetry CANSAT was to be designed in these Steps:
-  Conceptual Design (about 1 Month)
-  Preliminary Design (about 40 Days)
-  Engineering Model Definition (about a Week)
-  Detailed Design (about 1 Month)
-  Manufacturing and Test (about 2 Weeks)
-  Final Model

Now, and just at the time, Conceptual Design has been finished and the team has started Preliminary Design and is just going to decide on Subsystems' Details.

The system includes these Subsystems as defined in Conceptual Design:
- Electronics
- Communication
- Software
- Recovery
- Structure

Telemetry Project

The First Project handled in ARI-Space team will be a cansat with Telemetry Mission.

The Team is going to design, develop and manufacture a CANSAT with these abilities:
* Be Launched by a Rocket Undergoing 20-g Loading
* Land Safely after Free Flight from about 2 km Height
* Sense, Save and Send Atmosphere Temperature and Pressure During Flight and After Release
* Sense, Save and Send Flight Motion Acceleration in all directions During Flight and After Release
* Save and Send GPS Location During Flight and After Release

The Resulted system out of this project is going to compete in LEEM Cansat Competition held in Madrid, Spain (http://cansat.leem.es)

Cansat Missions

CANSATs can have different missions. The simplest one is a Telemetry mission, in which CANSAT perform like a Rocket Payload. Another common CANSAT missions is Comeback, where your CANSAT should land as close as possible to a specified target, defined before launch. 

CANSAT can be a good test bed for raw technologies demonstration and test, too. In this way, some of them are designed and manufactured like Rovers for Experimental Missions.

Cansat Classes

There are two major classes of CANSAT:

1-      Standard class: with size limited to a cylinder of 6.6 cm diameter and 11.5 cm in length, and weight below 350 grams

2- Open class: with no size limit but a weight below 1kg and a volume restricted to 1lit. 

A typical CANSAT can have several subsystems, including but not limited to:* Payload

* Communication

* Onboard Data Handling

* Power

* Structure

* Recovery

Cansat?!

CANSATs are a type of space systems that use simple subsystems of different space applications and gather them is a can size structure for a defined mission. Many missions has been defined and done successfully but they are mostly in electronic and robotic fields.

Usually, CANSATs with their shape and size can be used as a subsystem of small rockets to sound and model air atmosphere up to certain altitudes that their data then will be used by large rockets or missiles. CANSATs may also return to ground surface of the release height by a recovery system than has been designed for them and perform some missions during comeback and landing. It may challenge designers to work on some robotic subsystems with resemblance to rovers. 

ARI-Space Team

The First Spark resulted in formation of a student team in Iran Aerospace Research Institute. The main core of the team was made by Sajjad, Mahsa and Hooman in accompaniment of Hamidreza Nemati (Space Engineering  Student) and Hedayat Rousta (Electrical Engineering Student). With the kind help of Prof. Mohsen Bahrami, ARI Headman, Cansat Design and Manufacturing was defined as a Research Project, starting by the first days of Jan. 2010. The team also benefited supervision of Dr. Abolghasem Naghash during the project.

ARI-Space team formation was nothing except some interested students and some active and kind professors collaboration. The team was mainly focused on disciplinary in order to finish project on the main plan deadlines.

First Spark

The First Spark of Cansat Activities in Iran was made when 3 of Space Engineering Students formed a team in order to Design and Manufacture a Cansat, as a First Step to Space Projects. The main bases of the project was arranged in friendly meetings between these people:

Hooman Jazebizadeh
Mahsa Taheran
Sajjad Ghazanfarinia