- RocketSat
The
NASA SpaceGrant Consortium at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder has sponsored many small space reaching missions including 3CS, CX, DINO, and RocketSat. RocketSat is a small payload which launched on asounding rocket provided by theUP Aerospace corporation in October 2006. It is interesting to note that this first launch for the University of Colorado RocketSat program also marks the nascent flight of the UP Aerospace corporation, and the inaugural launch for theSouthwest Regional Spaceport near Upham, New Mexico.Purpose
RocketSat was conceived as the framework for a sister class to the BalloonSat projects course "Gateway to Space", already offered to
freshman engineering students at the University of Colorado. The first RocketSat payload serves as theproof of concept for future classes. This original payload consists of variousinstrumentation to record Geiger radiation counts,microwave radiation intensity,pressure ,temperature , andacceleration on three axes in both high-range with low precision and low-range with high precision. AnI²C EEPROM and two linked BrainStems(tm) (via the I2C bus) are used to record themyriad of data collected by the sensors. Due to the limited BrainStem speed, and limited EEPROM storage space, thedata collected on this RocketSat flight is being recorded at 4Hertz .External links
* [http://Brandon.Gilles.GooglePages.com/ Photos of RocketSat]
* [http://rocketsat.googlepages.com/home/ RocketSat website]
* [http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/ Colorado SpaceGrant Consortium]
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