Space Camp 2025 - CANSAT Competition

RESOLVE (Research Solutions & Ventures), the research center established by Pakistan's National Space Agency (SUPARCO) at UET Lahore, in partnership with the Space Research Center at University of Central Punjab (SRC-UCP), successfully concluded CANSAT Competition — the grand culmination of the Space Camp 2025 series held in connection with World Space Week 2025.

The following video captures the complete journey of the Space Camp 2025 and CANSAT Competition — from the welcome ceremony and aerospace exhibits, through the drone-assisted CANSAT flights evaluated by SUPARCO's expert jury, to the prize distribution and closing addresses by DG SUPARCO and Member SUPARCO. Watch Pakistan's young space engineers compete and celebrate in action.

Space Camp 2025 had taken the thrill of real satellite engineering to five of Lahore's premier universities — UCP, LUMS, LCWU, ITU, and UET — engaging over 450+ students across the series. The CANSAT Competition brought the very best of those participants together for one final, high-stakes challenge: to demonstrate the satellite they had built, under the watchful evaluation of Pakistan's leading space engineers. 

From 300 Participants to 18 Elite Teams

Of the 450+ students who participated in the Space Camp 2025 workshops — progressing from EYASSAT kit training to the full design, assembly, and launch of their own CANSAT prototype — 18 outstanding student teams comprising 72 participants were shortlisted to compete in the national competition.

The competing teams were drawn from across all five Space Camp host institutions, bringing together school, college, and university students in a single arena for the first time. Each team arrived with the CANSAT they had assembled during their respective Space Camp workshop, ready to demonstrate real-time performance before a jury of SUPARCO engineers and university faculty.

The Competition: Satellites in Action

The heart of the competition was straightforward and thrilling: fly the satellite, prove it works. Using drones, each team's CANSAT was launched into the air and evaluated on its real-time performance and innovation — transmitting live telemetry data including temperature, pressure, altitude, GPS coordinates, and sensor readings back to the ground station.

The SUPARCO jury, composed of experienced satellite engineers and academic faculty, assessed each team's satellite based on technical performance, data quality, mission execution, and the innovation demonstrated during their build and flight. The atmosphere throughout the competition was electric — a testament to the quality of preparation that Space Camp 2025 had given these young engineers. 


Competition Results

After a day of intense and inspiring competition, the jury deliberated and announced the results:

 •       1st Prize (Rs. 100,000) —  Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) & Information Technology University (ITU)

•       2nd Prize (Rs. 50,000) — University of Central Punjab (UCP)

•       Cash Prize & Special Award — UET, KSK Campus

•       Cash Prize & Special Award — NAMAL University, Mianwali

•       Cash Prize & Special Award — Allied School  

 Notably, the first prize was shared between teams from ITU and LCWU — a fitting conclusion to a series that had begun at UCP and travelled across five of Lahore's finest universities. 

 

 

Closing Ceremony — A Milestone Celebrated

The competition concluded with a formal closing ceremony that brought together senior SUPARCO leadership, organizing teams, faculty, and participants. The ceremony featured inspiring addresses, prize distribution, and a celebration of the successful completion of the entire Space Camp 2025 series.

DG SUPARCO Irfan Aslam addressed the gathering, lauding the exceptional standard of the competition and the ambition behind the Space Camp 2025 initiative — an initiative that had engaged hundreds of young Pakistanis in hands-on space engineering across Lahore's top universities. His presence at the ceremony underlined SUPARCO's strong commitment to fostering the next generation of Pakistan's space scientists and engineers.

Guest of Honor Mr. Raheem Sanaullah Chaudhary (Member SUPARCO) also addressed the participants, expressing admiration for the students' commitment and reaffirming SUPARCO's dedication to promoting science, technology, and innovation for a brighter Pakistan. Mr. Raheem Sanaullah specifically appreciated the outstanding efforts of SUPARCO, RESOLVE, and SRC-UCP in bringing this landmark series to life. 


 

A Series Completed — A Movement Ignited

With the conclusion of the CANSAT Competition, the Space Camp 2025 series came to its triumphant close. Over five camps at UCP, LUMS, LCWU, ITU, and UET, and one national competition, hundreds of Pakistani students — from school learners to university engineers — had experienced the complete lifecycle of satellite engineering: from theory to assembly to launch to competition.

The CANSAT Explorer Educational Kit (CK-2508), indigenously developed by SRC-UCP and RESOLVE, became the vehicle through which Pakistan's young engineers built, flew, and competed with their very own satellites — a first-of-its-kind achievement in the country's STEM education landscape.

Space Camp 2025 stands as a milestone in advancing STEM-based space education and strengthening academia–industry collaboration in Pakistan's aerospace sector. The momentum it has built — and the young space engineers it has inspired — will continue to grow long after the final satellite landed.

Organizing Institutions

The CANSAT Competition was jointly organized by:

•       RESOLVE — Research Solutions & Ventures (SUPARCO), UET Lahore

•       SUPARCO — Pakistan's National Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission

•       Space Research Center (SRC), University of Central Punjab (UCP)

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Contact

Dr. M. Kamran Saleem — Associate Professor | Director, Space Research Center

Faculty of Engineering | University of Central Punjab, Lahore, PAKISTAN

Email: kamran.saleem@ucp.edu.pk

 

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