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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 2000 Altitude: 78 km

5 SRP4 March 2002 Altitude: 87 km

6 SRP5: January 2009 Altitude 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!

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11 Anyone Want to Fly? (Questions?)


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