Celeritas board
As a finalist of the CanSat Hungary 2024 competition, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics gave us the opportunity to send our own developed experiment to space. Our module, named Celeritas, will fly on the Hunity (NMHH-1) satellite.
The Board
The board itself is a 30x45x3 mm plate, on which we planned a gamma radiation measuring experiment.
The device works by capturing incoming gamma photons with a scintillation crystal and detecting the emitted light with a SiPM (silicon photomultiplier),
a precise light detector. The data is processed by an STM32F301 microcontroller and transmitted to the satellite’s onboard computer.
The image shows an early version of the module’s 3D model.
The Team
The Celeritas team consisted of two CanSat teams. One was the Parsec, the other was the Kollégium Space Agency (KSA), the latter being my team.
In the development of the module, the KSA members took on a leading role, while the Parsec worked on the theory of the measurement.
3-2-1 Liftoff!
The Celeritas module will fly on the Hunity satellite, which will be launched into space by SpaceX, expected in the 4th quarter of 2025.
We are already looking forward to it!
