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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/

Timeline
Updates10

Challenge Updates

2nd Progress Update and Readiness Review Video

May 22, 2023, 11:55 a.m. PDT by Calvin Trubiene

Hello Rocketeers and Satelliteers,

The 2nd Progress Update and the Readiness Review Video shall be submitted before May 28, 2023, 11 p.m. (Brasilia Time). The direct link to fill the form is https://www.herox.com/SpaceChallenge2023/phases.

It is important to check the Revision 02 of the 2023 LASC Rules and Requirements, published on May 22, 2023, and the 2nd Progress Update Template both available on https://www.lasc.space/2023-lasc/documents-forms

The Readiness Review Video shall be uploaded on YouTube with a title as “Team Your_Mission_ID Readiness Review to the 2023 LASC". For example, a team assigned the Mission ID "19-A" competing in the 2023 LASC, would subtitle their YouTube Video as "Team 19-A Readiness Review to the 2023 LASC"

Important announcement:

Teams willing to bring COTS Motors to Brazil, please read all legislations and laws. You may launch your rocket with Cesaronis, Aerotechs and others, but it is illegal to transport such items and products (e.g. propellant) on an airplane.

Regards,
LASC Staff


Important Information for All Teams

May 21, 2023, 7:19 p.m. PDT by Calvin Trubiene

Hello Rocketeers and Satelliteers,

Please, find the updated 2023 LASC Teams List, Revision 02, on https://www.lasc.space/2023-lasc/overview. For the following communication all Teams shall use the Mission ID as an indentifier as stated on Scetion 6.2.1. of the 2023 LASC Rules & Requirements Document.

All submitted 1st Progress Updates were evaluated by our judges. Congratulations all Teams that together submitted 122 rockets and satellites projects in the first update. We have just main points regarding to the following aspects:

(1) The following oxidizers will not be supplied by our partners from the Rocketeers Store: Ammonium Nitrate, Gaseous Oxygen and Hydrogen Peroxide.

(2) We do not expect to have any COTS Motor from Cesaroni, Aerotech or similar. The only COTS Motor that will be available in limited quantity will be the Rocketeers Super 54 (54/600 and 54/1300). Important: LASC will not authorize flights of COTS Motors other than the Rocketeers Super 54.

Let's now progress to the 2nd Progress Update and the Readiness Review Video. This update and video shall be submitted before May 28, 2023, 11 p.m. (Brasilia Time). The direct link to fill the form is https://www.herox.com/SpaceChallenge2023/phases.

Finally, it is important to check the Revision 01 of the 2023 LASC Rules and Requirements and the 2nd Progress Update Template both available on https://www.lasc.space/2023-lasc/documents-forms

Regards,
LASC Staff


Feedback: 1st Progress Update

April 2, 2023, 7:19 p.m. PDT by Latin American Space Challenge

Hello Rocketeers and Satelliteers!

During the next week, the LASC Staff will reach you out to give an overall feedback on your missions. The feedbacks will be direct to the points that need improvements to the next updates.

The following teams have not submitted their 1st Progress Update for the 2023 Latin American Space Challenge. The Section 9.1 Progress Updates of the 2023 LASC Rules & Requirements Document requires all teams to submit their mission/project updates.

Team IDMission IDCategory PickTeam NameMission Name
44-A0.5 km - Solid MotorsAREGEONHypereon 1
99-A0.5 km - Solid MotorsCarcará Rocket DesignAmon
99-B1 km - Solid MotorsCarcará Rocket DesignJoão do Vale
1010-A0.5 km - Solid MotorsCEELL - CEPInfinity
1010-BPocketQube/CanSatCEELL - CEPInfinity
3737-A1 km - Solid MotorsIITK RocketryAarambh-1
3737-BPocketQube/CanSatIITK RocketryAtmos-Sat
3838-A1 km - Hybrid/LiquidImpetusADR-1
4343-A1 km - Solid MotorsKondakova RocketryBelka's COCOrocket
4444-A3 km - Solid MotorsKosmos RocketryVLK - 5
4949-A0.5 km - Solid MotorsNUST Rocket TeamProject Maverick
4949-B1 km - Solid MotorsNUST Rocket TeamTo be named (TBN)
4949-C3 km - Solid MotorsNUST Rocket TeamTo be named (TBN)
5252-A0.5 km - Solid MotorsPaulet CooperationAMARU llI
5252-B1 km - Solid MotorsPaulet CooperationQORI NINA
5252-DCubeSatPaulet CooperationBio Cosmos
6262-A1 km - Solid MotorsRk-TESELeia
6262-B3 km - Solid MotorsRk-TESEEhe-ktl
6262-CPocketQube/CanSatRk-TESEJuliet
6666-A1 km - Hybrid/LiquidSIIMESIME-1K
6969-A3 km - Solid MotorsSpace DragonsSENOGARD I
7070-A3 km - Hybrid/LiquidSpace NilkFuturus
7070-BCubeSatSpace NilkConquaerere
8282-A1 km - Solid MotorsUFABC Rocket DesignTo be named (TBN)

If your team had any issue or difficult to submit their 1st Progress Update, please contact LASC Staff on as soon as possible. Your team could be removed from the competition by not fulfilling LASC's Rules and Requirements.

Thank you,
- LASC Staff


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


Forum24
Teams1.3K
FAQ