Its first edition took place in mid-2018 in Brazil and its 2 nd edition in 2019 will be a bigger competition accepting members from all Latin-America. The last category consists of a 1-to-3U cubesat where teams need to undergo functional testing of their attitude control subsystem for image acquisition and pass through environmental tests such as thermal cycling and random vibration and yet perform satisfactorily for mission conclusion. The cansat category requires a fully functional device structured so that teams can evaluate their design performance and subject to a short flying and fall event demanding survival of the cansat for a message transmission. In mockups, participants are asked to build them and later run minimal strength tests in its structure so that the assembly can be certified. The 1st CubeDesign edition has three categories, namely: mockups, cansats and nanosats and is engaging participants from all schooling levels. The CubeDesign competition concept emerged with the inception of INPE´s Space Engineering and Technology postgraduate CTEE students group aiming at hands-on space missions, future workforce developments and promoting various outreach activities such as cu-besat workshops for the public in general.
This is quite important since these activities compels engineering skills and competencies for realizing the Industry 4.0 paradigm which is extensively based on automation, big data, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, etc., and that LA countries needs so much. Latin America in general is looking for its locus in the space arena and ramping up efforts to improve its current space programs. It is well known that space activities contribute positively to the general economy status of countries with an active space program. This paper presents the general and comprehensive approach used to the organization and project dynamics of a space engineering capacity building competition, named CubeDesign, initially targeted to Latin America.
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