NASA has announced the winners of the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge, held April 13 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Buckhorn High School of New Market, Alabama, won first place in the high school division with 84 points; and the University of Alabama in Huntsville - Team 1 won the college/university division with 61 points. Teams were awarded points based on the successfully navigation of obstacles and completion of tasks.
This image shows the University of Alabama in Huntsville - Team 1, which won the college/university division of the 2018 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge.
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In just over a week, 54 middle school, high school and college and university teams from 23 states will be launching their custom-built rockets and payloads to one-mile in altitude at the 2018 Student Launch competition held at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Teams spent eight months building and testing rockets designed to fly to an altitude of one mile, deploy an automated parachute system, and safely land for reuse, each carrying a scientific payload for data collection during flight.
The winning team will take home a cash prize of $5,000, offered by Orbital ATK of Promontory, Utah, longtime corporate sponsor of the challenge.
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A NASA suborbital sounding rocket carrying multiple student experiments was successfully launched at 5:30 a.m. EDT, Thursday, June 22, from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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The mission carried experiments built by undergraduate students from universities and community colleges across the country through the RockOn! and RockSat-C programs.
The experiments, launch on a 36-foot long Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket, flew to an altitude of 72 miles and landed, via parachute, in the Atlantic Ocean. The payload has been recovered and the students are expected to receive their experiments this afternoon to begin their data analysis.
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Witnessing a rocket launch is a special occasion. Watching a rocket launch with materials you made go up into the sky is priceless.
That’s how it felt for researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and students from Virginia Tech and the University of Central Florida as they watched a sounding rocket launch on Tuesday, May 16 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. On board: Mars rover concepts designed by the students.
“Very few students get the opportunity to design something, put it on a NASA rocket and fly it,” said Jamshid Samareh, research engineer at NASA Langley’s Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate (SACD), who assisted the students.
Funded through NASA’s SACD Internal Research and Development (IRAD) program, the project saw more than 30 Virginia Tech students and one Central Florida student conceptualize, design and build 3-D printed test models of deployable Mars rovers.
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Nearly 50 student teams from middle and high schools, colleges and universities in 22 states demonstrated advanced rocketry and engineering skills in NASA's 2017 Student Launch challenge, held from April 5-8 at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center. Teams spent eight months building and testing rockets designed to fly to an altitude of one mile, deploy an automated parachute system, and safely land for reuse, each carrying a scientific payload for data collection during flight.
The River City Rocketry team from the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky, captured top honors. They’ve proven hard work and determination pays off, literally, taking home a cash prize of $5,000, offered by Orbital ATK of Promontory, Utah, longtime corporate sponsor of the challenge.
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