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Alaska Student Rocket Program

Alaska Student Rocket Program. National Space Grant Directors Meeting Spring 2009. Denise Thorsen spacegrant.alaska.edu. History. Goals and Objectives. Student Training:

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Alaska Student Rocket Program

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  1. Alaska Student Rocket Program National Space Grant Directors Meeting Spring 2009 Denise Thorsen spacegrant.alaska.edu

  2. History

  3. 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.

  4. SRP3/TR1: January 2000Altitude: 78 km

  5. SRP4March 2002Altitude: 87 km

  6. SRP5: January 2009Altitude 98.5 km

  7. Progress in Technology SRP5: 2008 SRP1: 1999

  8. Launch Day: January 10, 2009 8:30 10:00 2:15 2:30 Meet at UAF Pre-Flight Meeting at Poker Flat Launch Post-Flight Meeting

  9. 1 Minute Before Launch!

  10. Anyone Want to Fly?(Questions?)

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