Transcript Alaska Student Rocket Program National Space Grant Directors Meeting Spring 2009 Denise Thorsen spacegrant.alaska.edu.

Alaska Student Rocket Program
National Space Grant Directors
Meeting Spring 2009
Denise Thorsen
spacegrant.alaska.edu
History
Goals and Objectives
• Student Training:
– provide students with opportunities for hands on
experience with design, construction, testing and launch of
sounding rocket payloads
– allow students to pursue innovative ideas and solve openended design problems
– provide students with the opportunity to work as
members of an interdisciplinary and international team
• Scientific Research:
– develop low cost, student designed rocket payloads to
investigate high latitude geophysical phenomena.
• Infrastructure Development:
– provide low cost test bed for verification of new flight
hardware technology
– develop research infrastructure at UAF for the
development of rocket and spacecraft flight hardware.
SRP3/TR1: January 2000
Altitude: 78 km
SRP4
March 2002
Altitude: 87 km
SRP5: January 2009
Altitude 98.5 km
Progress in Technology
SRP5: 2008
SRP1: 1999
Launch Day: January 10, 2009
8:30
10:00
2:15
2:30
Meet at UAF
Pre-Flight Meeting at Poker Flat
Launch
Post-Flight Meeting
1 Minute Before Launch!
Anyone Want to Fly?
(Questions?)