{"id":404,"date":"2018-06-28T06:13:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T06:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/idp\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=404"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T09:09:28","slug":"idp-students-won-at-the-actinspace-start-up-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/news\/idp-students-won-at-the-actinspace-start-up-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"iDP students won at the ActInSpace Start-up Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation and Design Programme (<em>i<\/em>DP) students Rachiket Arya (Mechanical Engineering) and Vairavan Ramanathan (Electrical Engineering) participated in the recent ActInSpace space tech start-up hackathon organised by European Space Agency (ESA) and Centre National D&#8217;\u00e9tudes Spatiales (CNES). They built on their current nanosatellite project work with the Satellite Technology and Research Centre (STAR)\u00a0and packaged their solution as a viable business, \u201cPrinted Propulsion\u201d. The mission of their company\u00a0is to provide effective, customisable and sustainable thrusters for smallsats at an affordable price\u00a0and their vision is to equip every smallsat in space with their thrusters. These propulsion devices\u00a0generate thrust by vapourising water, are 3D-printed and can fit in a wallet.<\/p>\n<p>The team emerged as\u00a0the Singapore winner and won a trip to Toulouse, France to attend the international round where\u00a0they were finalists (top 5 out of 510 teams). Additionally, they clinched the Airbus Defence and\u00a0Space Innovation Prize for their novel idea. They were treated with a visit to the satellite integration\u00a0facility and a cutting-edge 3D-lab of Airbus in Toulouse, on top of a flight training session on A320\u00a0and F32 simulators. Other than the 2 <em>i<\/em>DP students, the team also comprised Wilbert Biao (Electrical Engineering, NUS), Francis Yeo (Computer Engineering, NUS) and Prince Soni (Tanglin Trust School) who were integral to the team&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"923\" height=\"980\" class=\"wp-image-648 alignnone\" src=\" \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/06\/AIS2018.jpg\" alt=\"Ais2018\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo featured in The Straits Times)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachiket Arya and Vairavan Ramanathan participated and won in the recent ActInSpace space tech start-up hackathon organised by European Space Agency (ESA) and Centre National D&#8217;\u00e9tudes Spatiales (CNES)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":406,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[22],"class_list":["post-404","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14500,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/404\/revisions\/14500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}