Project Description: We are one of ~50 nationwide teams sponsored by NASA Space Grant to live-stream the April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse from the edge of space with a high-altitude balloon. Students involved in the project will work on a multidisciplinary team and have the opportunity to learn how to plan and launch high-altitude balloons, build and test the flight system, learn systems engineering, and potentially travel to the October 2023 Annular Eclipse and April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. Students will be involved and eventually lead all aspects of the project including payload development and assembly, ground station assembly and testing, high-altitude balloon mission planning and launch events. The project will officially begin Spring 2023.
Seeking undergrad students - Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project
By: miker on: Fri., Dec. 09, 2022 11:39 AM EST (324 Reads)
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Do you want to be in the shadow of the next two US solar eclipses? We need students for a project sponsored by NASA Space Grant to live-stream the April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse from the edge of space. An information session will be held (with light refreshments) on Monday Dec. 12th 3-4pm in Goodwin 145 and on zoom. The project will officially kick-off in January, and no prior experience is required to join the project. Through this project you will learn the fundamentals of high-altitude ballooning and work on the design, assembly, verification, and testing of project equipment including a ground station, Raspberry Pi camera payload, cutdown mechanism, data collection units, tracking systems, and payloads of your own design.
If you think you might be interested in this project but cannot make this time, still fill out the interest form (https://forms.gle/NNJnN4jvhEf26wmu7) so we know to reach out to you before next semester. We hope to see you at the information session! Cheers, Ginny Smith and Kevin Sterne |
