What is R2E ?

This year’s edition of the R2E will once again be held at the La Courtine military base (France, Creuse department) : an ideal location for this event.

Schedule

You can download the complete schedule here :

R2E schedule

Open package

Technical challenges

For the DIY fans who like to get their hands dirty, who crave for challenges and ready to throw themselves into their first space project : to built a Mars Lander in three days (and three nights if you’d like) ! Find more information about it on the “technical challenges” page.

Animations

Did you ever built a micro or a water rocket ? Still don’t know how a GPS works ? Dreaming of orbiting like a satellite around the Earth ? A 2 hours animation will take place on these subjects, every day.

Lectures, meetings and forums

Learn everything about the ATV, the ISS, the European scientific module Columbus and all the other activities proposed to the students by the CNES… Meet groups, personalities of acknowledged experience and engineers… Some more Space for those who don’t register to the “Workshop” package.

You’ll also be able to attend launches of experimental rockets, cansats and weather balloons.

Workshop package

 (1) Joseph BARENBACH
 (2) Malecka SALEMAN (CNES Toulouse)
 (3) André HUSSON (CNES, Earth Observation Department)
 (4) Nicolas CHAMUSSY (EADS Astrium)
 (5) Raymond BEC, Jean OSWALD (CNES Perseus).

Club package

Controls

Experimental rockets shall be prequalified before the 24th and 25th of June 2008 at RIS-ORANGIS (4th RCE). Further controls will be held directly at La Courtine. Groups which are not ready on time will not be able to get their projects to be launched !

It is possible to prepone the prequalification by contacting Vincent RICHE : vincent.riche@planete-sciences.org. This visit is more than needed if your project concerns mini-rockets.

Launches

CAUTION : This timetable is provisional and might change at any time.

Launches will take place between Monday afternoon and Saturday morning. Monday morning will be reserved for installation, Saturday afternoon for fallback.

*fusex (fusée expérimentale) = experimental rockets

Of course, weather balloons will also be released during the week.

Technical challenges

3 days to take up this challenge, 3 days to outperform the other teams and win the contest !

Context

Year 3958 on Planet Earth : thanks to the challenge organized by the JEDIS (Joined Earthlings for a Development in Interstellar Spaceships), the CNES and Planète-Sciences, the earthlings now have a reliable way to land on Mars.

In order to set up an environmental-friendly base on Mars, they now have to master transportation on the planet. The transportation shall of course be : Reliable ; Fast ; Environmental-friendly.

The JEDIS have called on the CNES, Planète-Sciences and young earthlings once again, this time to create the SMS (Hovering Mars Probes). Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to realize a new probe able to transport scientific equipment, communicate with the headquarters, get around as well as being original. The vehicle shall be of the hovering type. This means it will be suspended below a weather-balloon.

Goals

The main purpose of this challenge is to design and realize a vehicle able to detect an obstacle while transporting a fragile object. For the occasion, we’ll use an egg (from an earthly hen). When the obstacle (steel plate) is reached, the vehicle shall send a signal to notify the end of the displacement and then turn around.

Specifications can be found here :

Specifications

Translation : Dyane Hertogs