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A collaborative project using high altitude balloons to design, build and test space hardware in a classroom setting

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Abstract

The High Altitude Balloon Experiments in Technology (HABET) group at Iowa State University has begun a collaboration project between the HABET group and researchers at the University of Iowa.  A collaborative grant through the Iowa Space Grant Consortium has been obtained to fund this effort.  This collaborative effort is using high altitude ballooning to serve as the model for students to use to design, build, and implement space payloads.  This will then be implemented in a course at the University of Iowa where students can design, build and then test fly their payloads.  Students at Iowa State University are then designing and building the spacecraft bus system that will support these payloads.  They will also execute the flights which includes the launch, tracking and recovering of the payloads.  Both sets of students will need to work together to make this successful.   Students will need to communicate on both what the spacecraft bus is able to provide and what they need to carry out the mission on hand.  instructional course for students at the University of Iowa in how to design, build and implement space payloads that may range from a wide variety of science missions.  This paper will discuss our current work in progress for this collaborative effort.  We will discuss an overview of the spacecraft bus designed to carry out these missions and how this will fit with the course that the University of Iowa is designing.  Finally, we will discuss how this fits with the HABET group at Iowa State University and the course the students use for this in the Make to Innovate program.

Keywords: Teaching, HAB, Space, Hardware

How to Cite:

Nelson, C. & Nelson, M., (2020) “A collaborative project using high altitude balloons to design, build and test space hardware in a classroom setting”, Academic High Altitude Conference 2019(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/ahac.201