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CANSAT 2008 : UniKL MIAT won Best Team Award

  

Miniature Satellite Competition 2008 National Space Agency of Malaysia : UniKL MIAT was bestowed the Best Team Award
 

After 6 months of hard work since July 2008, UniKL MIAT able to smile proudly as they received their sweetest achievement and begged the Team Award for Efficient Integration of Electrical System, Software System, Mechanical System and Structural System (Aviation Composite) at Miniature Satellite (CANSAT) Competition. This competition organised by National Space Agency of Malaysia and participated by universities students throughout Malaysia.
Participants were required to design and build their own miniature satellite and they had gone through several levels to proof the integrity of their satellite as below;
o       Preliminary Design Review
o       Critical Design Review
o       Launching of satellite
o       Acquisition of data from satellite
o       Analysis of data from satellite
The launching site for the satellite and award presentation ceremony was held at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).

 

Figure 1. The Satellite Team of UniKL MIAT. Left to Right : Ridhwan, Inr. Harridon, Zaeiz, Sireen, Shafiz, Bakhtiar, NizarFazlin

 Figure 2. The UniKL MIAT Team during the Preliminary Design Review Presentation

 Figure 3. Final Tinkering of the Satellite before Launch

 Figure 4. Fixing the Software before the Launch                                        Figure 5. All Smiles as all Systems of the Satellite are OK

        Figure 6. A Balloon was Used to Drop the Satellite                             Figure 7. Waiting Anxiously for the Data from the Satellite

   Figure 8. The Opening of the Satellite after Launch   Figure 9. The Analyses of the Data From the Satellite

      Figure 10. Assoc Prof Dr. Raed Kafafy was intrigued                          Figure 11. Bakhtiar explaining to the Crowd the 
                    with the Satellite of UniKL MIAT                                       Structure of the Satellite of UniKL MIAT

Figure 12. The Best Team Award that was given to                               Figure 13. Presentation of the Award to the Dean 
  UniKL MIAT. Left to Right : Ridhwan, Shafiz,                                      of UniKL MIAT Professor Ahmad Zahir Mokhtar
    Dr. Mustafa, Inr. Harridon, Bakhtiar, Zaeiz

 

Reported by ;
Inr. Mohd Harridon bin Mohamed Suffian
Satellite Engineer / Team Advisor
Department of Aerospace
Universiti Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian Institute of Aviation Technology