You have found our cansat homepage which describe our cansat shield which can be yours for fun.

• CANSAT is a cheap and efficient way to combine engineering, math, physics, space and FUN in learning.

• It has now for a decade been part of undergraduate and high school activitites in Europe as well in USA.

• In Europe ESA(European Space Agency) holds regular courses and championships for young people all over Europe.

• At Studentspace at Aalborg University we have build and launched real cubesats up in orbit since 2003.

the image is from the European ESA competition at Andøya Rocker Range June 2014 - The picture shows one of the
cansats without the covering can with a hard working student

A cansat is not a satellite in traditional sense but a small flying vehicle which which fits into a standard 330 ml can.

can + 'satellite’ == cansat

You can launch it with a rocket up to 1-3 km og of height or use a helium ballon.
On the image you can see Danishh Space Challenge cansat rocket which nicely delivers the cansats up in space.

Aalborg University - AAU studentspace offers a cansat shield for cansat competitions
or just for fun :-) It's an Arduino shield which fits on an Uno.

See also wikipedia about cansats and EU cansat page

On the image you see cansat shield version 4 which support i2c based sensors. On the shield is the GY-80 IMU.
The shield does also support GY-87 board. There is also NTC based temperature measurement.

On the image you see cansat shield version 3 which support analog sensors like MPX4115 for pressure
and mma7361l 3 axis accelerometer as well as NTC for temperature.

We have our own launcher(cansat cannon) based on a cheap compressor and a high pressure steel tube.
We do emphasize that it puts a lot of stress (acceleration) on your cansat.

You can also find helium based ballons for more smooth launches.

a real shooting

Seen from top. from lefto to right: openlog, dy-80 sensor board, up-501 gps

Missing APC-220 radio on top

The top green shield is our normal cansat shield vrs 2 now with mpx4115 etc and instead the DY-80 board.
The DY-80 which is 10 DOF (degr of freedom): adxl 345 , l3g4200 hmx5883l all i2c interfaced
and gives you 3 axis acc, gyro, magnetometer and pressesure and temperature

More pictures here