About Spacey’s
Meet Spacey’s, official team for the CAN-SBX 2023-2024 competition from UBC Okanagan. Our goal is to design a unique payload for a stratospheric balloon, enabling us to conduct groundbreaking scientific experiments. This exciting challenge includes balloon launch and stratosphere experiments. This project is supported by CEDS-EEDS Canada, as well as the Canadian Space Agency.
Goals of Project
Engineering
Our primary goal is to measure the physical rotation of the antenna on the balloon from the ground through the power of electromagnetic field. This system and experiment will not only help the future research involving the antenna orientation, but will help the stratospheric communication technology such as HAP (High Altitude Platform), and High Altitude Platform Station (HAPs).
Science
One of the importance of conducting this experiment in the high altitude is to examine the new experimental method. The aim is to measure the ion density of the stratosphere through the measurement of the Faraday Rotation. Prior to this experiment, the stratospheric ion density is measured using the ion collector method.
Outreach/Education
We’ll showcase our project through a booth at UBC Okanagan, utilize social media to engage a wider audience, tailor events for K-12 students, contact local news outlets, and organize a conference to share our project’s discoveries with the academic community.
CAN-SBX information
The Canadian Stratospheric Balloon Experiment Design Challenge (CAN-SBX) is a competition for Canadian post-secondary students to design and test a small scientific experiment to fly on board a high-altitude balloon provided by the Canadian Space Agency. The CAN-SBX program allows post-secondary students to develop different experiments in areas such as astrophysics, Earth atmosphere, Earth magnetic field, biology, remote sensing, and technology demonstrations.
― https://seds.ca/can-sbx/
This year, the CAN-SBX Design Challenge will take advantage of the new CSA balloon platform, allowing for payloads of up to 5 kg to fly under expandable balloons. These launches will be on a smaller scale, so students will have to design payloads that are both compact and lightweight, which may be challenging for certain applications.
― https://seds.ca/can-sbx/
Sunday, October 8: Competition Application Deadline
Week of Oct. 30, 2023: Kick off meeting
Week of May 5, 2024: Final flight document submission
June 2024: LAUNCH
JUNE 2024 PREDICTED LAUNCH
Our passionate student team is committed to exploring the stratosphere’s potential for scientific discovery. Stay updated on our progress and support us in our quest to advance stratospheric research and more.
― Takamitsu Koyano, Head organizer
About Us
We SPACEY’s explore the possibility of science and engineering.
We are an official team of the CAN-SBX under the support of CSA and SEDS
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1137 Alumni Ave, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7
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