IIST team, from VIHAAN, The Rocketry Club at IIST, competed in the IN-SPACe CanSat competitions
The event took place at the Narayani Model Rocketry Launch Pad, Pipraghat near Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, from 30 October to 3 November 2026. The Cansat Team passed the Flight Readiness Review and got approval to fly. The CanSat was launched by a drone which took it to an altitude of 1 km and was released. The CanSat sent continuous, error-free telemetry up to 1 km altitude and through the full descent phase. The design includes a novel feature: a quadcopter-based secondary recovery system in addition to a parachute based primary recovery system. The structure stayed intact, and the team recovered the CanSat The team also recovered visual data from the onboard camera, and were able to demonstrate post processing. The descent trajectory and attitude variation was simulated based on post flight analysis using the telemetry data.
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Venue
Narayani Model Rocketry Launch Pad, Pipraghat near Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh
Event Details
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Mode:In-Person
