High Altitude Scientific Ballooning (Near Space Engineering)
2 UI Idaho RISE Background NASA Idaho Space Grant joined the National Space Grant Student Satellite “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly!” Program in 2003 with introduction of Idaho RISE First element of this program is Crawl: to develop capability to build, test, fly, operate, and recover scientific hardware from high altitude balloons. Next Steps Walk: Suborbital/sounding rocket flights Run: Satellites for Earth orbit Fly: Spacecraft for deep space operations
3 UI Idaho RISE Idaho RISE RISE (Research Involving Student Engineers and Educators) is a state-wide program. Multidisciplinary program involving students from all departments in the College of Engineering, as well as Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Education, and many other departments. Students design, build, test and fly science payloads up to 100,000 ft. UI Chapter of RISE is Idaho VAST: Vandal Atmospheric Science Team
4 UI Idaho RISE Flight History 1) RISE 03_01 5 Apr ,000 feet 2) RISE 03_02 12 June ,000 feet 3) RISE 03_03 24 July ,000 feet 4) RISE 04_01a 28 Aug ,000 feet 5) RISE 04_01b 28 Aug ,700 feet 6) RISE 04_02 26 Sept ,000 feet 7) RISE 05_01 10 Apr ,000 feet 8) RISE 05_02 29 Oct 2005 Unknown 9) RISE 06_01 25 Feb ,000 feet 10) RISE 06_02 22 Oct ,000 feet
5 UI Idaho RISE Flight History 11) RISE 07_01 21 April ) RISE 07_02 15 May ) RISE 07_03 29 Sept ,400 feet 14) RISE 08_01 2 March ,300 feet
6 UI Idaho RISE Facts Commercial airlines cruise between 30,000-40,000ft (9-12 km) International Space Station orbits at 1,150,000 ft (350km) Balloons can reach above 100,000 ft (30 km): Pressure: 1% of sea level (near vacuum) Temperature -130 o F (-90 o C) Sky is black
7 UI Idaho RISE Organization Ground Station Lead: E. Hart (CS) Structures Lead: B. Holmes (ME) Science / Engineering Lead: J. Smith (CompE) Space Grant Faculty Advisor Outreach Lead: A. Dodd (Creative Writing) Control & Data Handling Lead: C. Douglas (EE) Leadership Team Flight Director: A. Howard Asst. Flight Dir: G. DeRuwe Systems Engineer: J. Schlee Communication Lead: J. Nance (EE)
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27 UI Idaho RISE Projects Current and Future Projects Acoustic altimeter Temperature/Acceleration sensors Basalt magnetic field sensing experiment Small atmospheric entry probe prototype development Improved imaging capabilities Command uplink capability Free fall probe with autonomous parachute deployment
Senior Design Summary Design a descent probe: – Small in size ( Ø 30 cm) – Low mass (3 kg) – Aerodynamically stable – Instrumented with dynamic and atmospheric sensors – Capable of both sending and storing sensor/tracking data real time Design an experiment to test data acquisition, tracking, structural, aerodynamic capabilities 9/12/2015
29 UI Idaho RISE “What Do I Get Out Of This?” Hands-on experience applying knowledge build both in and out of class work Build connections and relationships with people from a variety of disciplines and experience levels, including students/faculty connected to NASA Freedom to experiment and learn your own way Experience working in groups, including Leadership experience
30 UI Idaho RISE How To Get Involved Sign up for 1 credit class, listed as ENGR 205 (CRN 32541) - Class meets one hour per week; teams meet one hour per week Send Questions to Austin Howard Justin Schlee Brandy Holmes Dave Atkinson Check out our website:
31 UI Idaho RISE Final Notes Potential for employment with NASA Sounding Rocket Opportunities (June, 2008; May, 2009?) Senior Design Projects (Terminal Velocity, Attitude Adjusters, Wireless TPS Sensors, MMOD Detection) Graduate Research Opportunities Planetary Probe Workshops Potential for summer internships at JPL, NASA Ames
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