maryland space grant consortium

Maryland Space Grant

Consortium

Program Highlights

Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting

2006 September 14

Balloon Payload Project

Balloon Payload Project

• 9 Launches to date

• U. Maryland, Morgan State U., Hagerstown CC, & Carver Center (high school) & other parts of NASA

• Teays attended the Colorado Workshop

• Special challenges in Maryland

• DCSGC

• Some interesting payloads this summer

Sending eggs to 100,000 feet on a balloon, and then returning them to Earth on a parachute

Made it!

Unfrozen!

Unbroken!

RECTIFICATION, GEOREFERENCING, AND RECTIFICATION, GEOREFERENCING, AND MOSAICKING OF IMAGES ACQUIRED WITH MOSAICKING OF IMAGES ACQUIRED WITH

REMOTELY OPERATED AERIAL PLATFORMSREMOTELY OPERATED AERIAL PLATFORMS

Gabriel B. Ladd

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

ASPRS 2006 Annual Conference Reno, Nevada ♦ May 1-5, 2006

AIRSPACES

Summer Internships• NASA Academy – sponsored 2 students

– Team project will be presented at the AAS DPS meeting

• Robotics Academy– GSFC & ARC

• APL• Summer Institute in Engineering &

Computer Applications• SAWDRIP

NASA Summer Aerospace Workforce Development Research

Internship Program• Partnership with GSFC and the Maryland

Space Business Roundtable

• Six participants this year

• Expect to expand it next summer

2006 SAWDRIP Interns

2006 SAWDRIP INTERNS

September 16-18, 2006 Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore Hyatt Regency at the Inner Harbor Co-hosted with the

Space Telescope Science Institute

Exhibit booth

• MDSGC and National Space Grant Foundation booth at the meeting

• All Space Grants encouraged to use the booth to– Distribute materials– Tell people about Space Grant– Meet other Space Grant participants