From left: Jake O’Reilly, Conan Seino, Torran Miller, Aine Flood, Rory Lally and Culann Dowling. Image: European Space Agency
Later this year the team will represent Ireland on the European stage at the ESA event.
The Arc, which is a team of students from Mercy Mounthawk secondary school in Tralee, Kerry, has been named the Irish winner of the national final of the European Space Agency (ESA) CanSat competition.
The flagship European Space Agency initiative challenges secondary school students to design, build and launch a working mini-satellite that fits inside a drinks can. Students at the two-day event in Laois launched their CanSats by rocket, captured and transmitted real-time data on descent and presented their results to a panel of expert judges.
The students will now go on to represent Ireland on the European stage at the ESA event later in the year.
