alaska student rocket program national space grant directors meeting spring 2009 denise thorsen...

Alaska Student Rocket Program

National Space Grant Directors Meeting Spring

2009

Denise Thorsenspacegrant.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 open-ended 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 2000Altitude: 78 km

SRP4March 2002Altitude: 87 km

SRP5: January 2009Altitude 98.5 km

Progress in Technology

SRP5: 2008

SRP1: 1999

Launch Day: January 10, 2009

8:3010:00

2:152:30

Meet at UAF

Pre-Flight Meeting at Poker Flat Launch Post-Flight Meeting

1 Minute Before Launch!

Anyone Want to Fly?(Questions?)