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Colorado & Virginia Space Grant Consortium, NASA Education, Wallops Flight Facility, NSROC Sounding Rocket Working Group Meeting RockOn: A NASA and COSGC Collaboration to Train Tomorrow’s Engineers and PIs Chris Koehler March 2 nd , 2012 Colorado & Virginia Space Grant Consortium, NASA Education, Wallops Flight Facility, NSROC
Transcript of A NASA and COSGC Collaboration to
Colorado & Virginia Space Grant Consortium,
NASA Education, Wallops Flight Facility, NSROC
Sounding Rocket Working Group Meeting
RockOn:
A NASA and COSGC Collaboration to
Train Tomorrow’s Engineers and PIs
Chris Koehler
March 2nd, 2012
Colorado & Virginia Space Grant Consortium,
NASA Education, Wallops Flight Facility, NSROC
Colorado & Virginia Space Grant Consortium,
NASA Education, Wallops Flight Facility, NSROC
To 100,000 Feet
High Altitude Ballooning
Taking student payloads to Near Space
13 Workshops
~800 Students
Spring-board
~$500
The Atmosphere1
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High Altitude
Ballooning
The Gap
Students Need An
Intermediate Step
Gap2
Falling3
CubeSats
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A Payload In 3 Days
Day 1: Electronics Build
Day 2: Programming
Day 3: Mech. Build
Day 4: Rocket Integration Day 5:
LAUNCH
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RockOn!
GEIGER BOARD
AVR BOARD POWER
G-SWITCH
PLATE
Z-ACCELS
SENSORS
- TEMP
- PRESSURE
- X/Y ACCELS
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RockOn!
1. Mount single payload to plate
2. Mount 5 plates into a stack
3. Stack enclosed in the RockSat Payload
Canister (RSPC)
4. Cans mount internal rocket structure
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RockOn!
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COSGC’s Experience
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RockOn!
To date 150 participants from 31 states plus PR & DC
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Tomorrow’s PIs
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How you can Help…
Lowest price ever
$999/person
May 1st, 2012
Colorado & Virginia Space Grant Consortium,
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Tomorrow’s PIs
Colorado & Virginia Space Grant Consortium,
NASA Education, Wallops Flight Facility, NSROC
Tomorrow’s PIs
Colorado & Virginia Space Grant Consortium,
NASA Education, Wallops Flight Facility, NSROC
Tomorrow’s PIs
Colorado & Virginia Space Grant Consortium,
NASA Education, Wallops Flight Facility, NSROC
Tomorrow’s Engineers
Colorado & Virginia Space Grant Consortium,
NASA Education, Wallops Flight Facility, NSROC
Colorado Space Grant Consortium, NASA Education,
Wallops Flight Facility, NSROC
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