World Space Week 2013
SHARP is participating in this years World Space Week (October 4th - 10th) by conducting an altitude test of SHARP's Arduino/GPS cutdown circuit. This circuit, designed to release a payload from a high altitude weather balloon will instead be installed below a small 100 gram tethered balloon and will ignite the engine of a small rocket suspended upon reaching the programmed altitude. The hybrid rocket-balloon is called a rockoon. Or hope is to conduct the test during the lunch hour behind the school on Tuesday, October 8th but we will need very calm winds to ensure a successful test so the actual date may vary. Rockoon pictures to follow! An earlier test of the circuit on a SHARP "rocket sled" was conducted on "Sputnik day" (Oct. 4th, 2013).
October 2013
Manitoba Space Adventure Camp 2013
Nine of the thirty-nine participants in this years Manitoba Space Adventure Camp were students attending Shaftesbury High School. The annual space engineering summer camp was held at the University of Manitoba (Engineering Information and Technology Complex) between August 19th and 23rd. MSAC activities included, soldering and robot building, rocket building, "fox" hunting or amateur radio direction finding (ARDF), building with composite materials, an introduction to orbital mechanics using STK, SAE competitions at the U of M, and a presentation on the history of the Shaftesbury High Altitude Robotics project, SHARP to name a few.
Matt already knows how to guzzle coffee like an engineer but can he assemble a functioning solar powered robot?
Ham TV is Aboard the ISS
Installation of the ARISS television system should be completed by the fall of 2013.
ARISS Ham TV Antenna to go on ISS
Arduino's in Space?
You already know that Arduino's are inexpensive open source microcontrollers used on SHARP high altitude balloon flights to log data from sensors, operate motors and release payloads at programmed locations. But, did you know that the Arduino will soon be in Earth orbit? ArduSat-1 is on the international space station and is to be placed in orbit this fall. Now consider this. You will be able to upload your space experiment sketch to the ArduSat! Space is going open source thanks to Arduino!
Massimo Banzi on TED
August 2013
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