# Presentation: 615236

## STUDENT RUN ROCKET 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.

-   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.

- 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

## Terrier-Improved Orion 41.035 UE/Kane/PSU

-   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.

-   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 NASA’s funding to the Goddard Sounding Rocket Program.

-   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

## Terrier-Malemute 29.036 DL/Howlett/USU

- 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.

- 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 University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory.

- 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