Transcript Montana Space Grant Student Workforce Development Programs Bill Hiscock Director, Montana Space Grant Consortium [email protected].

Montana Space Grant Student
Workforce Development
Programs
Bill Hiscock
Director, Montana Space Grant Consortium
[email protected]
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First SSETI mission:
SSETI Express – launched late Oct. 2005
62 kg
60 X 60 X 70 cm
23 universities in 12 countries
>400 students
18 months
Next SSETI missions
ESEO: European Student Earth Orbiter
-- 120 kg
-- Ariane 5 secondary payload
-- Integration now underway
-- launch 2008
ESMO: European Student Moon Orbiter
-- launch 2010
Call for proposals from ESA universities closed 15 August
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Our Mission
Across America, Space Grant students are learning from the ground up--literally—by
designing, building, flying and operating a broad range of spacecraft. Students come
with an interest in Space, but with different levels of skill, knowledge, and experience.
Missions of growing complexity provide opportunities to acquire baseline skills and
then to build on them. They range from the simple--building soda-can "satellites" or
small payloads for launch from small rockets or balloons--to building sophisticated
satellites. We call this strategy "crawl", "walk", "run" and "fly!". Our goal is to make
aerospace history and send the first student-built satellites to Mars.
http://ssp.arizona.edu/sgsatellites/mission.shtml
To be added to the SG Satellites e-mail list: send a request to Chris Koehler at:
[email protected]
The SSEL is our partner in all Student Satellite activities; SSEL brings
in dedicated expertise, additional funding (federal, private), and provides
overall organization for our student teams thanks to its Director,
Dr. David Klumpar.
BOREALIS: Balloon Outreach, Research, Exploration,
and Landscape Imaging System
2001:
2002:
2003:
2004:
2005:
2006:
4 flights
5 flights
10 flights
3 flights
15 flights
13 flights (so far)
Creation of second “launch service provider” at UM
Seven flights to date
Teams UM undergraduates with Middle School students
Holds current BOREALIS altitude record of 113,000 ft.
Collaboration with other Space Grant Consortia
August 2005 flight with faculty & students from Medgar Evers College,
CUNY
Customer:
NASA Ames
Research Center
Payload:
Re-entry Breakup
Recorder (REBR)
Customer:
The Aerospace
Corporation
Secondary payload flight opportunities on large balloons
(Northern Manitoba and NM)
Flying with the big guys
Kim and Jackie,
MSU
undergraduates
prepping the
payload
Launch: 3:00 am;
-30°C;
Wind chill -70°C
(-95°F)
June 2005 NASA’s DSTB High Altitude
Balloon Opportunity –Ft Sumner, NM
Opportunity provided through Alabama Space Grant
Long-term ballooning
Larger and Heavier payloads
HASP
Montana Earth Orbiting Pico Explorer
(MEROPE)
Engineering Design Unit
April 19, 2004
Flight Unit
October 4, 2004
Montana Earth Orbiting
Pico Explorer (MEROPE)
Scientific Student Satellite Project
Montana’s 1st satellite
Objectives
Undergraduate education, workforce training
Demonstrate commercial/consumer
electronics in space
Repeat of Explorer-1 science mission
Student-designed, -fabricated, -operated
4 graduate students
~ 100 undergraduate students
involved during first 3 years
Faculty serve as advisors
Low-cost ($40,000 to orbit)
Phase A,B,C: design, develop, launch
Phase D: 4 months (operation)
Space Operations Center:
Creating a university ground station
Developed for use in controlling MEROPE
Initial student training using AMSATs and
NOAA satellites (MSU one of two universities
downlinking NOAA VHF data on Van Allen
Belts) Students Keith Mashburn and Joey
Moholt were invited speakers at the 2004 NOAA/NASA Direct Readout Conference
Electra will remain attached
to the orbiting upper
stage booster by a 1 km
long tether
Demonstrator for de-orbit
capabilities
Electra -- A
tethered satellite
August 9, 2005
First integration
of MSU’s Electra
Satellite with Ecliptic
Enterprise’s
RocketPod
Jon Ehresman and other
students at Montana Tech
in Butte manufactured
structural parts
NASA EPSCoR Funded Infrastructure
1 m X 3 m vacuum chamber surplused
by GSFC (cost of transport only!)
Class 1000 clean room, Class 100
Flow bench funded by NASA EPSCoR
For use in MOSES NASA Sounding
Rocket payload project
MOSES
Still to be mounted
on
Terrier/Black Brant
sounding rocket
Launch:
February 8, 2006
White Sands
Missile Range
• Primary objective: Weather
• Secondary objective: Water & methane cycles
• Tertiary objective: Radiometry
ARES I.1 Flight opportunity
April 2009
October Skies rocket group
Instrument package provided for CSU-LB Prospector 6 flight, 24 May, 2005
Measured accelerations, pressure, and temperature data
Flown again on Prospector 7 flights (2 flights within 3.5 hours) on
29 October, 2005
Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE)
MSGC undergraduates analyzed MISSE 1 samples; won
“Best Poster” award at international Space Effects meeting
contributing samples for MISSE 6.