Truailliú: ESA's CanSat Competition

our reward

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Bloopers

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Genevieves views

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roisins views

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Sarahs thoughts

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Maeve and Roisin getting their award for swimming in the Artic circle

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Info

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THe below is a link to information from Andoya Rocket Launch about the CanSat www.rocketrange.no/?page_id=325

All of us with Zahira at the rocket range

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all of us at the rocket range putting our last minute touches onto the cansat

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the opening ceremony ...roisin was our representative

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All of us concentrating really hard on doing our design document

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Genevieve and orla sewing up the parachute

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picture in the irish examiner

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picture of genevieve, orla and roisin

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photo of can

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Our can being put into our rocket

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Truailliu team at the rocket range with Anne Fitzpatrick

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bbq nite

Cloud Cover Present

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Ro Keeping an eye on the can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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Putting the Can into the Rocket

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Ground Station

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Launch SIte

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The Scanner b4 launch

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Putting the Can into the Rocket

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Parachute

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The prize winners of the first European Cansat Competition

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This is the Irish CanSat which came in Second in the first ever European CanSat Competition

England

Ireland

Belgium

Congrats to the Irish Team

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With Dag sorting out the faulty wire

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This is the weather cloud in the air

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The rocket

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The girls give their thoughts on the project

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The Team after a very successful launch

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We were asked to go in an earlier rocket as we were supper organised and ready to go:-)

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Getting one or two things done in hte workshop before the launch

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The girls at Andoya Rocket Ranch waiting for the bus to be transported to Skarsteinsdalen for the rocket launch.

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Roísín made the circle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Orla, Genevieve and Roísín are making final structural changes to their CanSat.

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The launch was a succes!!! We had a small amount of trouble in the beginning because our sensors couldnt be picked up in the can but we quickley realised that a wire was broken

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Sarah speaking about our project.

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Roísín speaking about our project.

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Roisin holding irish flag representing her team at opening ceremony.

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Roisin indroucing our first presentation. She spoke about the scohool and its opportunities.

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We were very tired after our two flights and were not looking forward to another but were excited to be nearly in Andenes.

Last stages

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Tonight we will be leaving the bus station at 4am to begin our long journey to Norway. We departing from Dublin Airport at 12am.

10th of May

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Today we got our first photograph for the newspaper done. We also got our first publishing in the newspapaer. We featured in the Limerick Leader.

5th of May

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Today is the day we got in touch with the University of Limerick and told them what we needed help with and organised a plan to meet up.

1st of april 2010

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Today is the day we got organised about what we were doing in the can sat competition, our aplication had already been accepted so our teacher explained to us what it was about. We also set up our team email so as we could communicate with one another and see what was going on.We also got devided into groups of what tasks we were in charge of:

Roisin-PR and first mission

Sarah-programming

Genevieve-programming

Orla-parachute design

Rachel-parachute design

Maeve-first mission

Dervla-secondary mission

Gillian-secondary mission

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Here are some pictures of our cansat and the work being done!

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More Pics from work being carried out in Sinead's Lab

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Carrying out tests on the optical fibres in Sinead's Lab

Thursday 23rd of July

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Today we programmed our temperature and pressure sensors so as they would measure together. We hooked it up with a radio and satelite kindly given to us by UL. We could here the program happening through a radio which was pretty cool. We were seeing if we could pick up the sensors a kilometer away with the satellite. The computer was unable to read the signal so the team spent the rest of the day working on the scanner.

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Today we met up in UL to get ourselves organised, and see how much we'd left to do. We have one month left til the big week. We made out a time table and gave each person a job to do before Thursday which is the next day we have organised to meet up. We updated our litrature review and we began to organise getting team hoodies.

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Sarah and I (Rachel) are working on the parachute at the moment. We are making parachutes of varied sizes and styles and we're going to test them from the upstairs window.

Progress

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Last week we assembled the components of the cansat. We have ordered our Co2 sensor and are awaiting the arrival of the parachute material. Each group has completed a literary review containing adequate research in all fields. We are now in the process of finalising our design document and hope to have it completed by the end of the day. We've contacted local and national news stations, radio programs and newspapers. We also appeared in last weeks edittion of our local newspaper. We have also made contact with our local university and are recieving excellent advice and help from the staff. We are hoping to meet with John Nelson, a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Engineering department from the 14th to the 18th of June. Over the next week we are going to carry out some of the cansat experiments and testing out our ideas.

Thursday Morning

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Meeting in the library at 10.00 to update the status of the project.