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2023 Latin American Space Challenge

Latin American Space Challenge has a mission to motivate students and startups to develop and launch a rocket with a satellite as a payload.

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Summary

 

2023 Latin American Space Challenge

 

The Latin American Space Challenge (LASC), hosted at the Cape Canavial area in Brazil, is the 2nd largest experimental rocket and satellite engineering competition.

 

Since LASC’s first edition, in 2019, where more than 350 students were present to 2022, with 1,600 students participating, the growth of the competition is visible with an increasing number of interested teams applying to the competition.

 

The 2023 Latin American Space Challenge will be composed of two challenges: the Rocket Challenge and the Satellite Challenge. The main objective of LASC is to maximize the teams that develop satellites to fly on its sounding rockets.

 

Join us by registering your Team! A Team may consist of one or a group of student members, non-students members (i.e. enthusiasts, researchers, startup teams, amateurs and hobbyists) or mixed.

 

Dream. Build. Launch. 


 

Guidelines for the 2023 LASC. You'll want to review the following documents:

  • LASC Rules and Requirements Document
  • LASC Design, Test, and Evaluation Guide
  • LASC Master Schedule

Link: https://www.lasc.space/

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Challenge Updates

Update on LASC Tickets, 1st Progress Update

March 23, 2023, 6:42 a.m. PDT by Latin American Space Challenge

Rocketeers and Satelliteers,

The 2023 Latin American Space Challenge is now officially announcing the LASC Tickets payment process. The details can accessed on  https://www.lasc.space/2023-lasc/lasc-tickets. In this announcement, LASC is glad to announce a new Partner for the 2023 LASC: the Rocketeers Store.

All LASC Tickets will be processed by the Rocketeers Store through their website. Please, read carefully our LASC Ticket Pages. International Teams shall follow all instructions listed in the page to be able to buy their tickets.

Due to the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake, all teams from Türkiye can make a request to lasc@lasc.space to exempt their Team Tickets and Rocketeer & Satelliters Tickets.

The 1st Progress Update shall be submitted until March 26, 2023, 11 p.m. (Brasilia Time). The direct link to fill the form is https://www.herox.com/SpaceChallenge2023/phases.

Important: teams willing to buy COTS Motors shall expect information from our partners in the following days. During the 1st Progress Update, you should fill "COTS" in the fields asking for information related to the propulsion system. This process will not affect any team.

Thank you,

- LASC Staff


1st Progress Update

March 19, 2023, 12:35 p.m. PDT by Latin American Space Challenge

Rocketeers and Satelliteers,

The 2023 Latin American Space Challenge has opened the 1st Progress Update to be filled by Accepted Teams. The example of the form is available on https://www.lasc.space/2023-lasc/documents-forms.

The 1st Progress Update shall be submitted for each Mission ID that your Team have. For example, if your team has 3 Mission IDs (99-A, 99-B and 99-C), the 1st Progress Update form shall be filled and submitted 3 times.

If you want to remember and check your Mission ID, please go to https://www.lasc.space/2023-lasc/overview to check the latest version of the 2023 LASC Team List.

The 1st Progress Update shall be submitted until March 26, 2023, 11 p.m. (Brasilia Time). The direct link to fill the form is https://www.herox.com/SpaceChallenge2023/phases.

Thank you,

- LASC Staff


2023 LASC Team Selection Announcement

Feb. 12, 2023, 9:48 a.m. PST by Latin American Space Challenge

Hello Rocketeers and Satelliteers,

Congratulations to all of the selected teams.  LASC looks forward to working with you over the next months!

The Official List can be found on https://www.lasc.space/

86 teams have been selected to compete in the 2023 Latin American Space Challenge.

For those teams who will be competing this year, LASC is working hard to make this not only the largest, but the best Cup event ever held.  Over the next few months, there will be many updates and requests to  team leaders.  Please respond to these as quickly as possible to ensure your team is 100% prepared.

Get busy with your designing, building and testing!

- LASC Staff


2023 LASC Entry Application Period is now CLOSED. Application Reviews are underway!

Feb. 10, 2023, 6:51 p.m. PST by Latin American Space Challenge

Rocketeers and Satelliteers,

The 2023 Latin American Space Challenge Application Period is now closed.

Entry Application Reviews are underway by our team of judges. Thank you to everyone who have submitted their applications.

Formal announcements of the listing of accepted competing student teams for 2023 LASC will be communicated out via social media next Sunday.

Thank you,

- LASC Staff


2023 Latin American Space Challenge Applications

Feb. 10, 2023, 8:16 a.m. PST by Latin American Space Challenge

Hello Rocketeers and Satelliteers,

The Team Entry Application for the 2023 LASC will close in less than 10 hours! Please, send an Entry Application as soon as possible. Waiting until the final hours to submit your application means your application will be judged as-is with no feedback.  We can't guarantee all applications will receive feedback but we will do our best with our limited resources.

Timeline:

  • Registration Closed (Feb. 10, 2023, 11 p.m. BRT) - Registration and submittal of Team Entry Forms officially closes on February 10th, 2023.
  • Team Application Evaluations (From Feb. 10, 2023, 11 p.m. BRT to Feb. 12, 2023, 7:30 p.m. BRT) - Evaluation of team applications to select the 2023 LASC Official Teams.
  • Team Acceptance Annoucement (Feb. 12, 2023, 7:30 p.m. -BRT) - Teams selected to compete in the 2023 Latin American Space Challenge will be announced through this site, and also on the lasc.space website and social media.

If you have any question, please send it on our Forum or Discord.

Thank you,

- LASC Staff


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