Historical flight: Device developed by Armenian students is sent into space

November 18, 2022  13:48

Today, the payload designed by the students of the Armenian School Ayb was sent into outer space on a subsonic rocket of India's Skyroot Aerospace organization.

The 197-gram payload designed by the students of Ayb engineering club was put into the suborbital rocket and launched into space up to 125 km altitude, i.e. it crossed the conditional boundary of space (Karman line).

The sensors performing the last two measurements were designed and proposed by the AYAS (Armenian Youth Aerospace Society) team and added in cooperation with that team. After performing the planned measurements, the device will fall back together with the rocket.

The device is the result of a 2021-2022 engineering club academic year project. The members of the Ad Astra team at Ayb High School are graduates Andre Vardanyan, Elina Melkonyan, Hayk Piliposyan and 12th grader David Vanyan, mentors are engineering club leaders Vazgen Gabrielyan and Ruben Kerobyan, an Ayb graduate.

The Ad Astra team of the Ayb High School Design and Engineering Club became winner of the 2022 All-Youth Space Contest after Kemurjyan. The device developed by Ayb pupils was sent into space as the winner of the contest.

Project-based learning is one of the distinctive features of the "Ararat Baccalaureate" educational program, which was launched at Ayb School in 2015. It builds learning around projects. Under this program, students form teams and implement large-scale, long-term projects aimed at solving real community problems.


 
 
 
 
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