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High School Outreach
Currently,
ASA is implementing 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
is available here.
University Outreach
The Amateur Spaceflight Association is working towards
facilitating microgravity research at the university level. Our futre
microgravity 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,
we intend to tailor our launch schedule to allow design, integration, and
launch within the school year.
Microgravity
Lack of low-cost launch capability
is significantly hinders 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.
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