Our Cansat
Our secondary mission is to simulate a mini spaceprobe with our CanSat which will measure data on a new planet.
We will measure the altitude, pressure, temperature, humidity, light intensity, UV radiation and the magnetic fields force.
Sensors that measure data:
To measure this data we’re making use of 4 different sensors:
The first sensor is a BMP280 which measures the air pressure, the temperature and the altitude.
The second sensor is an LDR, with the LDR we will measure light intensity.
The third sensor is the GuvaS12-sd which measures UV radiation.
The fourth sensor is the HMC5883L which will measure the magnetic fields force.
The fifth sensor is the DHT11, which is used to measure the humidity.
Other sensors:
Next to these sensors, our CanSat consists of some more components:
There is a 9V battery which can power the CanSat for several hours,
there is an APC220, this sensor transmits data to to the ground station.
Next to that we have an SD-card reader which saves all the data in case of failure of the APC220.
And there is a beeper, this will increase the likelihood of finding the CanSat when it drops.