Education

Talent Development

Primary Contact: Nick Pelster, CSA
Secondary Contact:
John M. Garvey, GSC
nick.pelster@californiaspaceauthority.org
http://www.californiaspac...

3.3 Deliverables


Objective:
The Space-Related University Programs project was designed to provide space-related experiential university internships and mentoring programs to college and lower level students across the California Innovation Corridor in order to motivate students to pursue engineering and scientific careers supporting U.S. global competiveness. Students were engaged in research-focused balloon flights, payload development, and rocket launches. Students gained real experience in rocket/payload development, testing, integration and launching.

The basic "product" on this project was to work with students to develop flight opportunities for student payloads. Several different efforts were conducted to successfully integrate and fly payloads on balloon and rocket launches. One of the most significant efforts was the launch of two Garvey Spacecraft Corporation and California State University Long Beach developed launch vehicles (Sep07 & Oct08) that carried a variety of payloads. Two balloon launches were also conducted that contained several student payloads. Students were also engaged in launch vehicle and payload development for ARLISS (A Rocket Launch for International Student Satellites) launches in Black Rock, Nevada in 2007 and 2008.

Another significant "product" was the demonstration of the Virtual Classroom capability. Stanford University worked with San Jose State University and industry mentors to develop a capability to remotely capture and transmit real-time voice, video and data over the internet. This capability was intended to allow a classroom of students to operate in a control room type of environment for launches conducted at remote locations throughout the world. This provided greater opportunity for more students to view the launch activities in real time as opposed to recording them on video and looking at them after the fact, allowing them to experience the thrill of the launch and heighten their level of involvement.

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Garvey Space Craft: Community College