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Day 2 - Launch day!

We dropped the CanSat! Today was the launch of the CanSat's and we are happy to say that we had everything done in time. The CanSat was mounted on to a drone which flew up to approximately 260 meters where it then released the can. We had a relatively stable decent with a velocity of 7.8 m/s. Two way communication with the can worked during and after the flight and we got data that we are now working with from the flight. The aim of the drone drop test, and presentations yesterday, was to see which four teams would be participating in the superfinal where the CanSat's are flown up to a 1000 meters with a rocket. After all teams had done their drone drops and had lunch we gathered for the reveal of the four teams. We found out that our hard work has payed of as we are one of the four finalists. But, unfortunately the rocket could not be launched today due to too much wind, thus it was postponed until tomorrow. Now we will process the data we got from the drone drop and hope it is not too windy for the rocket launch tomorrow.







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