{"id":31045,"date":"2021-10-08T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/first.global\/?p=31045"},"modified":"2022-03-29T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:12:56","slug":"youth-from-90-countries-build-launch-nanosatellites-just-in-time-for-space-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/first.global\/fr\/press-releases\/youth-from-90-countries-build-launch-nanosatellites-just-in-time-for-space-week\/","title":{"rendered":"DES JEUNES DE 90 PAYS CONSTRUISENT ET LANCENT DES NANOSATELLITES JUSTE \u00c0 TEMPS POUR LA SEMAINE DE L'ESPACE"},"content":{"rendered":"

These teenagers orchestrated every aspect of their mission, including building, coding, launching, recovering, and analyzing data. And they did it on their own!<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n
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[<\/span>Team Cambodia cheers as their CubeSat prototype takes flight<\/span><\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n

You can hear the cheers as teams of kids from around the world launched their first nanosatellites into low earth orbit as part of the 2021 FIRST<\/em> Global Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s this Challenge?<\/strong>
\nNinety teams from nations around the world accepted FIRST<\/em> Global\u2019s call to tackle a pressing world problem by designing, building and launching a type of nanosatellite, called a CubeSat Prototype<\/a>, into the lower layers of earth\u2019s atmosphere for the first-ever CubeSat Prototype Challenge.<\/p>\n

Each FIRST<\/em> Global team received the same standard kit of parts. The teenage students had less than seven weeks to design, build, code and launch their CubeSat Prototypes using high-altitude balloons or drones to accomplish a self-identified mission.<\/p>\n

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Participating teams include Afghanistan, Uruguay, Cambodia, and South Africa, among the more than 90 in total. Each team took on a specific challenge, for example:<\/p>\n