Diseño, implementación y evaluación de un prototipo Cansat para monitoreo atmosférico

Resumen

This article presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a prototype CanSat satellite the size of a can, developed by students at the Apizaco Institute of Technology for use in remote sensing and analysis of certain atmospheric variables. The design was carried out in accordance with the restrictions imposed by the CanSat canned satellite competition, which is part of the UNAM's University Space Program (PEU), whose objective is to motivate higher education students to develop skills in space science and technology. In this challenge, the students incorporated all the main subsystems found in a satellite, such as the power stage, electronic components, sensors, mechanical structure, mechanisms, and the telemetry system, within the volume of a can. Once each subsystem was working, the entire prototype was assembled, and then tests were carried out on the complete satellite at a height of approximately 50 meters, where it was possible to verify from a ground station that the satellite was sending the data it was measuring during its ascent and descent.