Blarney’s Team Steve aims sky high with ESA rocket competition

Meet the young Irish rocket scientists who are about to boldly go where few Irish teens have gone before.

Students from Scoil Mhuire gan Smál in Blarney, Co Cork, are making the final technical adjustments to their hi-tech mini satellite before jetting off to Portugal next week to represent Ireland at the European finals of the European Space Agency (ESA) CanSat competition, where it will be strapped to a rocket and blasted a kilometre high.

Physics teacher and project supervisor Seán Foley said the students, codenamed Team Steve, are in with a real shot. “They are really committed and have worked really hard on the project,” Mr Foley said.