BalloonSat & Rocketry Opportunities
Start a BalloonSat program at your school with help from the PA Space Grant ConsortiumDr. Chris House, the Director of the Pennsylvania Space Grant, is interested in establishing additional Ballooning programs in Pennsylvania. He is willing to support a faculty team to attend the following program. The goal is for you (or designated faculty) to return to your institution and create a student program in the 2009-2010 school year. There is money to assist you in the development of this program. PLEASE FORWARD TO THE APPROPRIATE DEPARTMENTS. Electrical Engineering may be interested!
Funding is limited, if you are interested please contact Leah Bug, Assistant Director of the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium, at your earliest convenience. Partnerships are also encouraged.
Starting a Student Space Hardware Balloon Program: A How To Workshop
When: July 8-11, 2009
Where: Boulder, CO
Costs: PA Space Grant will cover your expenses
Come to Colorado this July and go home with the tools and knowledge to start your own student space hardware program. This workshop will provide you with detailed information on current successful programs and with instructions on how to adapt and refine these programs for your campus. You will gain hands-on experience while building your own versions of simple experiments, including building and launching your own BalloonSat to 100,000 feet (weather permitting). Each participant will build a AnaSonde (CricketSat) this year. You will leave this workshop ready to provide these opportunities for your students.
Start a rocketry program at your institution with the help of the PA Space Grant Consortium
Dr. Chris House, the Director of the Pennsylvania Space Grant, is interested in establishing additional Rocketry programs in Pennsylvania. He is willing to support a faculty team to attend the following programs. The goal is for you (or designated faculty) to return to your institution and create a student program in the 2009-2010 school year. There is money to assist you in the development of this program. PLEASE FORWARD TO THE APPROPRIATE DEPARTMENTS. Electrical Engineering may be interested!
Funding is limited, if you are interested please contact Leah Bug, Assistant Director of the Space Grant, at your earliest convenience. Partnerships are also encouraged.
RockOn 2009 The Next How To Workshop
When: June 21 – 26, 2009
Where: NASA Wallops Flight Facility
Costs: PA Space Grant Consortium will cover your expenses
Requirements:
1. Participants MUST know how to solder and have practiced before attending the workshop.
2. Participants MUST be familiar with the C and/or C++ programming language. After registration, a pre-workshop test will be sent and will be required to be successfully completed by each person before the workshop.
3. Participants MUST be a U.S. citizen. Due to security requirements at Wallops Flight Facility, U.S. citizenship is required.
The RockOn workshop is designed to be the next step beyond the Boulder BalloonSat and Ballooning Workshops. The RockOn workshop will be similar in concept to the the Boulder workshops in that teams will learn through hands-on activities, how to build a sounding rocket payload or RocketSat. Teams of 3 will build their RocketSat from a kit in four days and launch it on sounding rocket to 130 km the sixth day. The hardware in the kit will be able to be used on future RocketSat and possibly CubeSat flights. Wallops will be providing the rocket and launch operations of the workshop. Wallops will also provide tours and briefings on sounding rocket environments for future flights. We will also present their concept for standardized flight opportunities for future experiments. This workshop is not about building or learning to build rockets. It is about building and learning to build sounding rocket payloads.
The RockOn 2008 proposal was a huge success. 57 faculty and students from across the country attended and formed 19 teams. All payloads were completed in time allotted. All payloads were launched and recovered. All 19 payloads worked. The RockOn 2009 rocket is twice as big and will reach an altitude of ~130 km. Contact Leah Bug for additional information.
NASA University Student Launch Initiative
When: Fall introductory workshop and Spring Launch
Where: Marshall Space Flight Centers, Huntsville, AL
Costs: PA Space Grant Consortium will cover your travel expenses if team is selected
Limitations:
1. Must already have a current rocket program or plan to attend the RockOn Workshop.
2. Participants MUST be a U.S. citizen. Due to security requirements at Marshall Space Flight Center, U.S. citizenship is required.
The NASA University Student Launch Initiative, or USLI, is a competition that challenges university-level students to design, build and fly a reusable rocket with scientific payload to one mile in altitude. The project engages students in scientific research and real-world engineering processes with NASA engineers. Students propose to participate in USLI during the fall. Once selected, teams design their rocket and payload throughout the school year. USLI requires a NASA review of the teams’ preliminary and critical designs.
The project also requires flight readiness and safety reviews before the rockets and payloads are approved for launch. After launch, teams complete a final report to include conclusions from their science experiment and the overall flight performance. The Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, and Flight Readiness Review are conducted by panels of scientists and engineers from NASA and from NASA contactors and external partners. Contact Leah Bug for additional information.
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