Tue, Jun 15, 2010
University Students And Professors Ready To "Rock On" With
NASA
University students and professors
from across the country and Puerto Rico will converge on NASA's
Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia later this month to learn how
to build small experiments that can be launched on sounding
rockets. This is part of a week-long workshop, known as RockOn!,
that begins June 19.
The 80 workshop participants will build standardized experiments
that will fly on a NASA Terrier-Orion suborbital sounding rocket
set to launch between 0600 and 0900 EDT on June 24. The
35-foot-tall rocket is expected to fly to an altitude of 75 miles.
After launch and payload recovery, the participants will conduct
preliminary data analysis and discuss their results.
In addition to the seven workshop-built experiments, 11
custom-built, self-contained experiments also will fly on the
rocket inside a payload canister known as RockSat. The latter
experiments were developed at ten universities that previously had
participated in a RockOn! workshop.
NASA Sounding Rocket File Photo
The workshop is funded by NASA's National Space Grant College
and Fellowship Program in partnership with the Colorado and
Virginia Space Grant Consortia. This will be the third year for the
workshop.
The Space Grant national network includes more than 850
affiliates from universities, colleges, industry, science centers,
and state and local agencies. The goal is to support and enhance
science and engineering education, and research and public outreach
efforts for NASA's aeronautics and space projects. These affiliates
belong to one of 52 consortia in all 50 states, the District of
Columbia and Puerto Rico.
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