Bei-Sat, a microsatellite prototype for atmospheric monitoring, won first place in the European CanSat Competition. This is a project supported and co-financed by the Instituto de Telecomunicações and PT Space.

Bei Team is comprised of DETI - University of Aveiro students, Filipe Silva, Gonçalo Ferreira, Lucas Pinto, Matilde Costa, and Pedro Soares, our doctoral researcher Henrique Chaves, engineer Jerry Cunha from Altice Labs, and Juan Nolasco.

The European CanSat Competition is a university CanSat microsatellite competition, which took place on Friday 13th October in Brescia, Italy.

The project culminated in a satellite with differentiating characteristics with a flexible 3D structure and a triple parachute configuration that successfully withstood the fall and met the competition's weight requirements.

Bei-Sat demonstrated in the 2 launches a very satisfactory falling behavior with the transmission and data processing capacity of the CanSat and the effective and complete air quality that allowed data to be presented in real-time in a web browser interface, opening up possibilities for systems integration more elaborate processing and forecasting.

The objectives of this project are aligned with the national space strategy of transforming Portugal into a space nation in 2030 - "Portugal Space 2030".