STUDENT RUN ROCKET PROJECT

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STUDENT RUN ROCKET PROJECT

• This project is supports NASA education goals
  to inspire the next generation of explorers.
  Student Run Rocket Program (SRRP) was created to
  provide hands on experience for students. The
  program challenges the students to design, build
  and launch a high-powered rocket. This program
  educates by allowing the students to apply theory
  learned in class, to a real-world engineering
  project.

• As an educational outreach activity, NRW 3683
  will enable students to experience design,
  development, and testing of sounding rockets and
  science payloads.
• The science objective is to demonstrate a new gas
  filter correlation radiometer by measuring the
  distribution of CH in the stratosphere. This
  instrument and a high sensitivity video camera
  will be used to measure and image the
  distribution of chlorophyll in Metompkin Inlet.

Ocean Chlorophyll

• Primary contracted support is from the NASA
  Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC).
  NSROC is assisting students in developing the
  payload and the vehicle systems.
• Contract services are also being used to
  recover the payload in a water recovery.
• The overall budget for the project is under
  100K.

• Project Initiation and Requirements
  Definition 3/2002
• Design Review 9/2003
• Mission Readiness Review 4/2003
• Range Readiness Review 4/2003
• Launch Window 4/29/2003
  5/6/2003

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Terrier-Improved Orion 41.035 UE/Kane/PSU

• This project is supports NASA education goals
  to inspire the next generation of explorers. As
  such, Penn State University and Clemson
  University, represented by Dr. Timothy Kane of
  Penn State, is the immediate customer. Dr.Kane is
  supported by NASAs funding to the Goddard
  Sounding Rocket Program.

• As an educational activity, the 41.035 UE is a
  student built experimental payload named SPIRIT
  II. Students from Penn State and Clemson will
  experience design, development, testing, and
  launching of a sounding rocket and the science
  payload.
• The science objective is to study the dynamic
  processes in the mesosphere and the transfer of
  energy from troposspheric processes to the
  mesospheric/low thermosphere.

• Primary contracted support is from the NASA
  Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC).
  NSROC is assisting students in developing the
  payload and the vehicle systems.
• Contract services are also being used to
  recover the payload in a water recovery.
• The overall budget for the project is under
  100K.

• Project Initiation and Requirements
  Definition 3/2000
• Design Review 4/2002
• Mission Readiness Review 9/2003
• Range Readiness Review 9/2003
• Launch Window
  9/2003

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Terrier-Malemute 29.036 DL/Howlett/USU

• The prime Government agency for this mission is
  MDA Innovative Science and Technology Division,
  with the program being managed by U.S. Navy
  SPAWAR Systems Center. Mission Science and
  instrumentation comes through the Army ARO with
  subcontracts to Embry Riddle Aviation University
  and George Washington University. Payload
  integration and mission coordination is through
  Utah State Universitys Space Dynamics
  Laboratory.

• The purpose of the Duel-Mode Experiment on
  Bowshock Interactions (DEBI) experiment is to
  investigate the spectral intensity of IR and
  ultraviolet radiation generated in the bow shock
  of a sounding rocket with an AITP-like front end.
• The goal of the experiment is to verify
  theoretical estimates of bow shock radiation.
  Measurements will be taken during ascent only
  from a 40 70 Km altitude.

• Primary contracted support is from the NASA
  Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC).
  NSROC is assisting students in developing the
  payload and the vehicle systems.
• The overall budget for the project is under 100K.

• Project Initiation and Requirements
  Definition 3/2000
• Design Review 4/2002
• Mission Readiness Review 5/2003
• Range Readiness Review 9/2003
• Launch Window
  5/27-5/11/2003