Alaska Student Rocket Program

Alaska Student Rocket Program

National Space Grant Directors Meeting Spring

2009

Denise Thorsenspacegrant.alaska.edu

History

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.

SRP3/TR1: January 2000Altitude: 78 km

SRP4March 2002Altitude: 87 km

SRP5: January 2009Altitude 98.5 km

Progress in Technology

SRP5: 2008

SRP1: 1999

Launch Day: January 10, 2009

8:3010:002:15

2:30

Meet at UAF

Pre-Flight Meeting at Poker Flat Launch Post-Flight Meeting

1 Minute Before Launch!

Anyone Want to Fly?(Questions?)