RocketSat II and II successfully launched and great data was returned
June 28th, 2007
RocketSat II, COSGCs second launch of the
RocketSat program, was a huge success. It was launched from the New Mexico Space port on April 28th
on Up Aerospace's SL-2 flight .
After payload recovery, students analyzed the structure performance and
retrieved data stored on EEPROMs. The flight environmental data was
analyzed including acceleration, temperature, magnetometer readings.
Unfortunately the GPS experiment did not work as planned but on the whole the
payload performed very well.
RocketSat III, COSGCs third launch was on June 27th on the
Microgravity
Enterprise Inc flight MEI-F3 from the Las Cruces area. This single plate
payload was recovered and again amazing flight characterization data was
successfully recovered. This second flight
successfully tested the basic microcontroller system, and some potential
payloads which will hopefully be used in the future to provide unique
opportunities for students to develop skills needed to fly more student payloads
into space.
Flight Results are being compiled and will be
available during the Summer of 2007.
Scheduled RocketSat launch April 28th, 2007
April 21, 2007
The next generation of RocketSat payload will be
launched form the New Mexico Space port on April 28th. The 8 students who
have worked on this project will deliver their payload to Up Aerospace on Monday
April 23rd. The majority of the team will be in New Mexico for the Launch
on Saturday. Information about the payload and other details will be
coming soon.
2007 Undergraduate Space Research Symposium
April 21, 2007
The 2007 USRS will be at 9:30 in the DLC Bachtel
Callaboratory on the CU campus. UNC, CSU-Ft. Collins, CSU-Pueblo, Metro,
the Air Force Academy and CU will present their research and papers to
Professors and Aerospace Industry to compete for cash prizes. If you are
interested in attending please contact
brian.sanders@colorado.edu.
Check here for information about the Symposium.
DemoSat V Launch
April 15, 2007
The
DemoSat V Launch from Windsor Colorado was a great success. Teams from
Western State, Adams State and CU launched and recovered their payloads.
Landing site results looked promising but more information will be known after
the teams have time to analyze their data.
Robotics Competition
April 07, 2007
The Colorado Space Grant Consortium along with Adams State College present
the first Robot Challenge at the Great Sand Dunes National Park on April 7,
2007. This event is open to all high school and college students.
Teams designed robots which navigated to a RF target while avoiding obstacles.
This event will return in April 2008 so start your teams. More information
- Robotics Competition.
University NanoSat Competition Win with DANDE
January 18, 2007
It gives
us great pleasure to report that the CU team (Colorado Space Grant Consortium in
collaboration with the CU Aerospace Department, Air Force Space Command, and
NOAA) has won the AFOSR award to design and construct a small satellite in the
University Nanosat Competition. The DANDE
mission will bring faculty from several departments and graduate and
undergraduate students together to complete this project. The majority of the
work will occur in the Discovery Learning Center. It is our goal to have a CU-student
built Atmospheric Satellite in orbit at the end of the next four to five years.
RocketSat Launch
September 25, 2006
The launch of the payload on September 25, 2006 was a near success.
Five students traveled to the launch site and performed final checkout and
integration of their payload to the Up Aerospace rocket. They even help to
bolt on the rocket nose cone. Launch was scheduled for 7am however due to
technical difficulties with the rockets communication equipment, the launch was
delayed until early afternoon. Unfortunately seconds into launch the
rocket began to corkscrew and reached an altitude of over 40,000ft. Up
Aerospace is working with Space Grant on the next experiment, RocketSat II which
is to be launched in Spring 2007.
Information
on Up Aerospace's efforts to return to flight.
Student a the launch and a structural drawing of RocketSat II to be launched
Spring 2007.
Upcoming RocketSat Launch in New Mexico!!
September 13, 2006
Students from the RocketSat program at the University of Colorado Boulder
will be launching their first of hopefully many payloads on the
UpAerospace
SpaceLoft. The
launch is scheduled for Monday September 25th, 2006. Check out COSGC's
RockeSat Homepage for some project details.
We will launch out of the
New Mexico Spaceport which is near Upham, New Mexico. If you have any
questions or would like more information contact us.
DemoSat Launch and JPL Presentation
Students from across Colorado launched DemoSat payloads on July 29th from Genoa, Colorado. The technology demonstrations ranged from rovers, panoramic photography, propagation of sound in a near space environment to hear the deployment of solar arrays and modeling the dynamics during the flight to list a few. They then presented their finding to JPL engineers and toured the Jet Propulsion Laboratories.
The CU team with RedRoverSat in front of a mockup of Spirit
and Opportunity
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