Fly a Rocket Campaign! A Unique ESA Academy Hands-on Project

The Fly a Rocket! Campaign is an ESA hands-on project in collaboration with the Norwegian Space Agency and the Norwegian Center for Space-related Education (NAROM) which allows university students at their first or second year of Bachelor degree to build, launch and operate their own first sounding rocket from the Andoya Space Centre located in Northern Norway. This paper gives a general overview of the second edition of this programme, as it took place throughout winter 2018 – spring 2019. Being selected to be member of the Telemetry and Data Readout team, the author’s task was to set up and operate the telemetry station, including manually tracking the rocket and downloading its data, making sure that the students received and collected data from the rocket. For this reason, this paper will focus particularly on the activities followed by the Telemetry and Data Readout team members.