“NASA is extending an opportunity to college and university teams to propose small spacecraft technology projects that they can conduct in collaboration with NASA researchers. This is the second time NASA has…
Category: Missions
NASA Launches RockSat-X Payload
“A NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket carrying the RockSat-X payload was successfully launched at 7:01 a.m., Saturday, April 18, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Recovery of the payload with…
NASA Helps Students Launch High-Power Rockets
“More than 30 high school, college and university teams will launch student-built rockets during the 15th annual NASA Student Launch event April 10-11 near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama….
Indian Crowd Sourced Spacecraft
“For the first time, space is not longer the exclusive preserve of advanced technology institutes and scientists. Isro’s Space Application Center (SAC) has invited engineering institutes across the country to share their…
Moon Research Investigating Dust Expulsion Removal Systems
“Moon Research Investigating Dust Expulsion Removal Systems (Moon RIDERS) is an educational project partnering Hawaii high school students with NASA, Google Lunar XPRIZE teams, and the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration…
NASA Provides Space Access for University Developed Experiments
“NASA will fly six university experiments developed by undergraduate students from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia between 6:45 and 10 a.m., Friday, March 27. The experiments will examine technology development, microgravity…
ESA Selects Sixth 'Spin Your Thesis!' Teams
“Four teams of university students have been selected to develop and conduct their hypergravity experiments during ESA’s sixth ‘Spin Your Thesis!’ campaign, to be held 7-18 September 2015. The campaign will take…
Hawaii High Schools Selected for Student Lunar Flight Experiment
“PISCES announced this morning the two participating Hawaii high schools selected for the Moon RIDERS (Research Investigating Dust Expulsion Removal Systems) student lunar flight experiment during a dual-location press conference on Oahu…
XTRONAUT: Extreme, Extended, Exploration
“Xtronaut develops and supports innovative education-based initiatives and outreach programs associated with the OSIRIS-REx Mission, as well as other robotic space exploration missions. OSIRIS-REx is a NASA funded mission designed to launch…
Sending the Garden of ETON to Space
“In order for longterm space missions to be successful, a renewable food source is needed. We’ve developed a hydroponic garden specifically designed to function under conditions of microgravity – ETON. We’ve been…
Student Scientists Ready to Launch Experiments to Space Station
“Students will look to the skies this week when SpaceX’s fifth commercial resupply services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station lifts off at 6:20 a.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 6, from Cape…
Build Your Own Cubesat For Less Than $6,000
“Satellites have traditionally been expensive with even lower cost solutions like Cubesat costing six figure amounts, limited to those with larger budgets. The PocketQube Kit addresses these problems and widens access to…