Competition · Hybrid
A national school-year challenge in which teams of up to six students design, build and launch a soda-can-sized satellite, with a free kit supplied and the top advanced team representing Canada at an ESA event.
Teams build a CanSat with a small computer, battery and sensors, run a secondary experiment, write documentation and give an outreach presentation. There are Beginner and Advanced categories; Advanced winners are invited to the ESA international CanSat event in the Netherlands. The program is run by the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge Management Society, a Canadian charity.