{"id":2826,"date":"2026-06-22T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/cansat-space-engineer-for-a-day-2026-event-inspires-next-space-generation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:47:00","slug":"cansat-space-engineer-for-a-day-2026-event-inspires-next-space-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/cansat-space-engineer-for-a-day-2026-event-inspires-next-space-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"CanSat Space Engineer for a Day 2026 event inspires next space generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/06\/students_at_cansat_space_engineer_for_a_day_2026_event\/27340084-1-eng-GB\/Students_at_CanSat_Space_Engineer_for_a_Day_2026_event_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Students at CanSat Space Engineer for a Day 2026 event  \" \/><\/p>\n<p>From 17\u201319 June 2026, the winning teams from the 26 national CanSat competitions, led by national ESEROs and other national partners, gathered at ESA\u2019s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) for the CanSat \u2013 Space Engineer for a Day event. Around 170 students and teachers from 26 countries took part in this three-day learning and celebration event, gaining a unique insight into space engineering disciplines and the wide range of space careers at ESA.<\/p>\n<p>CanSat is an interdisciplinary school project coordinated by ESA and implemented by the European Space Education Resource Offices (ESEROs) and other national organisers. In the project, upper secondary school students design, build and launch a satellite the size of a soft drink can. The Space Engineer for a Day event rewards national winners by immersing them in the world of space engineering through hands-on activities, collaborative engineering challenges and interaction with ESA experts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 17\u201319 June 2026, the winning teams from the 26 national CanSat competitions, led by national ESEROs and other national partners, gathered at ESA\u2019s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) for the CanSat \u2013 Space Engineer for a Day event. Around 170 students and teachers from 26 countries took part in this three-day learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}