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International CanSat Workshop was held in Takeda Hall of University of Tokyo.
170 people from 16 countries participated in the workshop |
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For the workshop, special logos were designed using national flags of 16 countries.
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The workshop started with opening remarks by Mr. Hirohama and Ms. Chiku.
They explained background and objectives of the workshop.
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In the opening session, Prof. Nakasuka of University Tokyo made a speech about CanSat activities in Japan.
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Prof.Twiggs of Stanford University made presentation on CanSat activities in United States. He also introduced new challenges for the future.
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Prof. Yoshida of Tohoku University introduced history and current situation on runback competition using rovers.
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After the lunch break, afternoon session started. Mr. and Mrs. Green of AeroPac made a presentation on ARLISS (A Rocket Launch for International Student Satellites) activities with spectacular movies. AeroPac has supported Japanese students CanSat experiments since 1999.
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Mr. Yasunaka of Camui Space Works in Hokkaido made presentation on CanSat launch experiment line up using movies of Camui Rocket launch.
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Mr. Kakikura of Hokkaido University made presentation on CAMUI hybrid rocket for CanSat. |
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Mr. Starzewski of Lyon University, France talked about "Challenging paraglide control system: CLES-FACIL student club developing CANSAT in cooperation with Kyushu Institute of Technology. |
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Mr. Masuda of Nihon University talked about the past and present CanSat development in Nihon University.
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Mr. Sekiguchi of Tohoku University, who won in the ARLISS Comeback competition in 2006, talked about their rover.
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Ms. Konda of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Titech) introduced CanSat development program in Titech. |
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Mr. Kusakawa of University of Tokyo presented CanSat activities as a tool of training for real satellite project.
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In the conference hall, much interaction was made between speakers and audience.
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The second day of the workshop started with speech made by Prof. Sukkarieh of Sydney University.
This session includes visions and future plans for CanSat.
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Mr. Salvador of Universidad Politecnica de Madrid presented CanSat activities in Spain.
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Audience is listening to unique ideas and activities of each country with much interest.
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Mr. Amund Nylund of NAROM AS talked about Norwegian Cansat competition and future.
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Mr. Sayuti of Malaysia Space Agency introduced youth space activities such as water rocket competition, and talked about future plans of Malaysian satellite activities such as CanSat and CubeSat.
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Prof. Rodriguez of San Buenaventura University, Colombia, made presentation on space education and pico-sat that they have been developing.
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Discussion session was also held in the late morning in the second day. In the session, future visions and international collaborations were discussed.
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Ms. Saito of Akita University made presentation on their CanSat activities and Noshiro Space Event.
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Mr. Yoshikawa of Tohoku University presented their rover that got the first place in Noshiro Rover Competition.
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Mr. Saisudjarit of Tohoku University made presentation on their flyback CanSat.
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High School Students of Waseda Prep School made presentation on their CanSat activities. |  |
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Mr. Eishima of University of Tokyo, who has taught and let the high school students, explained the overview of outreach program on space engineering using CanSat.
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In winter 2007(Dec.2006-Feb.2007), high school students organized four project teams, and made Cansat and rover.
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The First team (H. Sato, T. Hagiwara, T. Tsukishita, M. Sakai) made a CanSat which had release mechanism of a doll.
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The second team (H. Yu, Y. Nishitani, S. Wada, N. Yanagimotoi) presented their CanSat which made experiment on attitude control for solar power generation.
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The third team (H. Suzuki, T. Ninomiya. Y. Shintani and M. Sakuma) made a rover.
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The fourth team (K, Nemoto, K, Hunaki, A.Yamane, M. Yamanoi and M. Suzuki) tried separation of tethered LED-daughtership form mother-CanSat.
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In the workshop, various CanSat and rockets were displayed. |
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Participants took CanSat in their hands, asked questions to the students who produced it.
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This is a rocket of Tokai University, which can release CanSat.
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After lunch break on 24th, Tohoku University and Nihon University made demonstration.
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Two rovers of Tohoku University ran autonomously on the floor, and participants looked them earnestly.
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Nihon University made demonstration on photographing using CanSat.
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The demonstration was successful, and they received the photo data from remote area.
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Coffee break on 23rd
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Reception was held at Foyer in Takeda Hall in evening on the first day.
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Participants enjoyed interacting with each other.
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Lunch break on 24th.
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