We are a 4-person collective from the I High School in Kraków, proficient in computer science, electronics and related fields with a mission to send a small can-sized device up to a lofty altitude of 3 km in the CanSat 2021 competition organized by the Copernicus Science Centre and ESERO-Poland.
We will be investigating the possibility of using small can-sized probes to locate and track airplanes. This can be useful in for example so called "dead zones" over the atlatic, where in case of a crash the search party can only estimate the possible location of planes this could shorten the time needed to find survivors.
The global infrastructure that saves lives: our mission is to study the applicability of a deployable SOS probe. Which can be used to track people in situations of distress and in dire need for help. Should we succeed in our endevaour - the likeliness of saving lives with such technology is high.
Currently, our recovery system is based upon a traditional parachute mechanism. To adapt it to real life usage, our CanSat will be water-resistant and have an ability to be secured to an inflatable buoy for future recovery or an unmanned vehicle.
With the processing power of the freshly baked Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 we are able to offload several Mbps of the data stream to be initially decoded and compresed on board. Therefore, the area of the rescue mission can be greatly expanded upon while maintaining a low spectral footprint.
