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University Outreach
The Amateur Spaceflight Association is dedicated to
facilitating zero-gravity research at the university level. Our space
flights are designed to provide payloads an extended zero-gravity
environment without the harsh acceleration loads experienced with traditional
sounding rockets. To encourage university participation, our launch
schedule is tailored to allow design, integration, and launch within the
school year.
High
School Outreach
Currently,
ASA is finalizing a rocket motor test program for students. Through this project, students will build
and test fire a liquid fueled rocket motor with ASA engineers. More information will be available soon.
Microgravity
Research
Lack of low-cost launch capability
is suffocating the research energies of universities. Multiple-year delays between experiments
inhibits the growth of successive experiments due to the necessary
repetition exercise of teambuilding and “just getting one off the
ground”. By enabling
universities to launch an experiment on a yearly basis, students can use
the preceding year’s projects as a starting point for research,
rather than beginning anew when finances or launch services permit. Essentially, this basic compounding of
research will dictate the advancement in experiment complexity and as a
result, an improvement in the quality of research occurring in space.
The result of the increased quality
and frequency of microgravity research flights shall be scientific
breakthroughs discovered markedly sooner than the pace set by current
research efforts.
ASA is committed to the design, construction, and
launch of a launch vehicle capable of carrying microgravity experiments
into space. Come find out more
about this exciting project, including design details for the vehicle and
current deadlines.
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