PROJECT LOGBOOK
Our journey building the Polaris CanSat - from concept to launch
📅 2025 October - Team Formation
- â–¸ Research team members
- â–¸ Apply to competition
- â–¸ First team meetings organized
- â–¸ CanSat body design
- â–¸ Electronic design
📅 2025 November - Development Sprint
- â–¸ Bread Board implementation
- â–¸ Software design and implementation of CanSat and Ground Station
- â–¸ Parachute design
- â–¸ PDR submission
- â–¸ Procurement of elements
- â–¸ Taking part on CanSat KickOff
- â–¸ Taking part on CanSat Great Meeting
- â–¸ Start planning of 868 MHz Antenna
📅 2025 December - Hardware Realization
- â–¸ Procurement of elements, 2. part
- â–¸ PCB realization
- â–¸ Design of FOX tranciever
- â–¸ Software implementation
- â–¸ First tests
- â–¸ 868 MHz Antenna realized
📅 2026 January - System Integration
- â–¸ Taking part on Satellite Meeting
- â–¸ Finalizing software
- â–¸ Realize Fox transceiver
- â–¸ Start writing CDR
- â–¸ Distance test, in motion tests
📅 2026 February - Final Assembly & Testing
- â–¸ Assembling realized hardware into CanSat
- â–¸ Tests: drop, distance, stress, FOX transceiver, encapsulation
- â–¸ Finalizing CDR
- â–¸ CDR submission
- â–¸ Backup CanSat realization
- â–¸ Programming received data evaluation