Randi Ritvaldi, a former hardware programmer of Gathotkaca (the payload team), shared his work experience with Gadjah Mada Aerospace Team. After a year of teamwork, he became a team leader at GMAT in 2014-2015. Initially, Randi joined the GMAT to fill his spare time, apply his knowledge in real life, and be inspired by the previous year’s GMAT accomplishments. The following year, he was even more motivated to bring the GMAT to the top.

He told about the fellowship in the team, after he came home from college, he often stayed in the workshop and almost every day gathered to prepare for the competition, college assignments were also done together. That’s the secret to compact GMAT. read more

Gadjah Mada Aerospace Team kembali berkompetisi dalam ajang United States Annual Student CanSat Competition 2021 dan berhasil meraih peringkat 10 dunia dan peringkat 6 tim dari benua Asia. Kompetisi yang diselenggarakan oleh American Astronautical Society (AAS) tersebut, merupakan kompetisi yang rutin diadakan dengan misi berbeda setiap tahunnya. Pada tahun 2021 ini, CanSat Competition memiliki misi Autorotating Maple Seed Science, di mana setiap tim yang ikut berpartisipasi harus mampu menciptakan wahana muatan roket yang dapat mengirimkan data atmosfer dan separasi pada ketinggian tertentu. read more

Bagas Azhar, a former Mechanic of Maheswara (the balloon team), shared his experience working in Gadjah Mada Aerospace Team. In the beginning, he wanted to join the rocket team as a mechanic. But after joining GMAT, he realized that he didn’t really want to be a part of the rocket team. Instead, he was glad to be a part of the balloon team which allowed him to experience something different.

Bagas decided to join GMAT because he wanted to have organizational experience. He believed joining other competition teams in University would take too much of his time which in his opinion wasn’t really worth it compared to what would be obtained by joining it. Because basically, he was mainly looking for organizational experience. read more

The Atmosphere of Earth is divided into several different layers. The easiest way to think about the atmosphere above our planet is to imagine an invisible shield that protects our planet from all the bad stuff that floats around in the universe. Each layer has its own properties, depending on how far you are from the surface of the planet.

          1. Troposphere

This is the first and the lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere. All life on this planet is affected by the changes that happen in this layer, as all the weather changes take place in the troposphere. It starts from the ground (or sea level) of our planet and expands up to 10 km up in the sky. read more