CanSat is exhibiting in Feb!

For our design teams, aerodynamics is very important as our CanSat is deployed from the rocket and falls back to the earth. Paper rockets have similar aerodynamic challenges that have to be considered during their design. A thin strip of paper will wrap around a pencil and be taped to form the fuselage of the rocket. The pencil is then removed from the fuselage and then cut at an angle at the top and taped to form a nose cone. Fins may be added to the rocket. The rockets are now ready for their launch on a straw.

CanSat at VT is a student organisation that represents the three CanSat teams from Virginia Tech. CanSat is a competition for students to build a miniature satellite roughly the size of two soda cans that gets launched into the lower atmosphere and collects and transmits atmospheric and telemetry data on its way down to the ground.