1. Idaho High Altitude Scientific Ballooning Program - Idaho RISE A program of the NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium Course introduced: ENGR204 Sp2006 Enrollment: 27(14 EE/CompE, 5 ME, 3 Physics, 2 CS, 3 other) Faculty Advisor: D. Atkinson Student Flight Director: Ben Pollard, Physics Flight Teams: – Structures – Communications – Science, Power, & Engineering – Launch, Navigation, & Tracking Affiliate programs at NNU, BSU, ISU, and BYU-Idaho www.mrc.uidaho.edu/~atkinson/ENGR204/ENGR204.html

2. Idaho RISE To date, UI RISE has had six flights –Rise 03_01 5 Apr 2003 94,000 feet –Rise 03_02 24 July 2003 88,000 feet –Rise 04_01a 28 Aug 2004 90,000 feet –Rise 04_01b 28 Aug 2004 100,700 feet –Rise 04_02 26 Sept 2004 87,000 feet –Rise 05_01 10 Apr 2005 91,000 feet –Rise 05_02 29 Oct 2005 Unknown Instruments Flown: Camera, temperature sensors humidity sensors, bacteria samples, accelerometers (solar UV detectors built by team of 8 th grade girls under supervision of UI ECE undergraduate is ready to fly)

3. Kibbie Dome RISE 03_02 (2003) Flight RISE 04_01 (2004) RISE 03_03 (Summer, 2003)

4. NASA Ames Research Center Senior Design Team Support Project #1 Instrumented Descent Probe to be used as testbed for possible future Venus entry/descent probe mission (SAGE) –Goal: (1) Design a balanced and aerodynamically stable instrumented descent probe that will maintain structural, aerodynamic, and thermal integrity from 100,000 feet to the surface, and will survive surface impact. (2) Design, build, test, and implement a data acquisition and data storage system for up to 4 instruments –Students: 3 ECE, 2 ME –Sponsor: Dr. Tony Colaprete, Astrobiology and Space Science Division, NASA Ames (SAGE Co-I) –UI ECE Faculty Advisor: D. Atkinson (SAGE Co-I)

5. Project #2 Design an attitude determination, pointing and control system using CO 2 canisters and a series of small valves and control system for attitude determination and adjustment. System will comprise at least 2 sets of 2 opposing nozzles, located on outer edge of cylinder/ring; To operate in pulsed mode. –Each nozzle with separate valve actuated from central controller –Include magnetometer or sun-pointing system to permit location of reference direction –Working gas is CO 2, but investigate use of lighter molecular weight gas for higher Isp –Students: 2 ECE, 3 ME –Sponsor: Marc Murbach, Advanced Projects Branch, Space Projects Division, NASA Ames –UI ECE Faculty Advisor: D. Atkinson NASA Ames Research Center Senior Design Team Support