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The IUB team of 10 CSE students, who became the first Bangladeshi group earlier this year to be selected for the prestigious Student Cansat Competition in the USA, has received positive feedback in the Critical Design Review (CDR) stage.
The IUB team, known as IUBFabsat, displayed their design studies, simulations, schematics, software code, and test findings and highlighted the project's breadboard model with the evaluators at the CDR presentations on April 28, 2023.
This positive review will take them a long way in achieving a good result in the final phase of the competition, scheduled to be held during June 8-11, 2023, in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
The CanSat competition is an annual event organized by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) that aims to promote innovative and creative thinking in the field of space exploration.
The IUB CanSat project has developed the prototype for a “Can-shaped” satellite that can be deployed in the upper atmosphere by a rocket to gather environmental data, take pictures from high altitudes for surveillance and other purposes, and so on. The design includes a variety of sensors and cameras, and parachutes and a heat-shield to provide protection against the extreme conditions of the launch and the fall. The prototype was developed at FabLab IUB, which is among only a handful of operational state-of-the-art digital fabrication laboratories in Bangladesh located at IUB.
Dr. Mahady Hasan, Interim Dean of IUB’s School of Engineering Technology and Sciences, and Dr. Mohammed Anwer, Professor at the Department of Physical Sciences of IUB, are advising the IUBFabsat team.
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