Events - Written by Kirk Kittell on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 16:49 - 0 Comments

CanSat 2009 Results

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The fifth annual Student CanSat Competition was held June 12-14, 2009 in Amarillo, Texas. The event is hosted by the American Astronautical Society and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

The results of the competition:

1st Place:    University of Maryland Black & Gold Team
2nd Place:  University of Michigan Team 2
3rd Place:   University of Alabama in Huntsville Team Megatron
4th Place:   Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Team 2
5th Place:   Kapi’olani Community College Team O’hia

The event was sponsored by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Naval Research Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Ball Aerospace & Technology Corporation .  The Panhandle of Texas Rocketry Society (POTROCS) provided the launch site and support for the CanSat payloads.

Details of the 2010 CanSat Competition will be released in August.   Photos are posted on the AAS Flickr page.



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