Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium

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Spotlight Archives

2009 Balloon Workshop at Taylor University

Faculty from around the Commonwealth were busy this summer! John Helferty from Temple University, Bruce Kothman from University of Pennsylvania, Wookwon Lee from Gannon University and Albert Lozano-Nieto from Penn State University at Wilkes-Barre all attended the 2009 Balloon Workshop at Taylor University. They were introduced to high-altitude ballooning, different payload projects, near-space environments, and FAA Rules. They built their own payloads and conducted a launch of their own! The space grant looks forward to seeing them implement ballooning programs at their respective universities and is happy to support their efforts.

Exploration Day!

Exploration Day 2009 was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who was able to join us on Saturday, April 18th at the Bryce Jordan Center. More than 2600 attendees joined more than 250 exhibitors and volunteers for a day of fun and learning celebrating the importance of a strong Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. There was a 50' scale model of the Space Shuttle, a "Moon Tree" planting, a planetarium, and a question and answer session with Dr. Jim Pawelczyk, a former NASA astronaut. This years event was sponsored by the NASA PA Space Grant Consortium and The Eberly College of Science. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated this year, we look forward to seeing you again next spring! For more information and photos from the event, please see http://explorationday.psu.edu.

2008 HyspIRI Space Grant Students - Summer as a rocket scientist

A NASA Earth-observing mission, scheduled to launch in 2015, will collect a tremendous amount of information about the planet's ecosystems - enough to fill hundreds of computer hard drives with data every single day.

For a solution to this information overload, JPL turned to a group of six college students from around the United States who spent their summers working at the Laboratory as part of the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program.

The mission, called Hyperspectral Infrared Imager, or HyspIRI for short, will use two specially-designed cameras to take pictures of Earth's surface in multiple wavelengths of light. The images will provide information on everything from drought conditions to the plant species populating an area. "It's kind of like a camera on steroids," explained Tony Tao, a student Space Grant fellow from Pennsylvania State University. read more

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