{"id":26472,"date":"2023-08-21T23:54:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=26472"},"modified":"2023-08-21T23:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:54:47","slug":"nasa-challenges-students-to-fly-earth-and-space-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/nasa-challenges-students-to-fly-earth-and-space-experiments\/%20","title":{"rendered":"NASA Challenges Students to Fly Earth and Space Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo above – One of two commercial platforms slated for flight tests in this year’s NASA TechRise Student Challenge, Astrobotic’s Xodiac is a vertical takeoff vertical landing rocket-powered testbed for simulating lunar and planetary landings as well as a variety of other technology applications for space exploration. Credits: NASA\/Lauren Hughes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA is calling on middle and high school students across\nthe country to submit experiment ideas for a high-altitude balloon or\nrocket-powered lander test flight in the third TechRise Student Challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TechRise is open to students in grades six to 12 attending\nU.S. public, private, or charter schools \u2013 including those in U.S. territories.\nIt offers participants hands-on insight into the payload design and suborbital\nflight test process, with the goal of inspiring a deeper understanding of space\nexploration, Earth observation, coding, electronics, and the value of test\ndata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNASA\u2019s TechRise Student Challenge is one of the many\nexciting ways we\u2019re engaging with the Artemis Generation,\u201d said NASA\nAdministrator Bill Nelson. \u201cThe process of designing flight experiment\nproposals encourages students to think big and realize that their talents and\ncreativity will be key in the future of humanity\u2019s exploration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Managed by NASA\u2019s Flight Opportunities program and\nadministered by Future Engineers, the challenge invites teams of four or more\nstudents, under the guidance of an educator, to design science and technology\nexperiments for suborbital flight. Sixty winning teams will be selected to turn\ntheir proposed experiment ideas into reality. Winners will receive $1,500 to\nbuild their experiments, a 3D printed flight box in which to build it, and an\nassigned spot for their payload on a NASA-sponsored flight test. Experiment\nideas must be submitted no later than Oct. 20, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, TechRise<\/a> entrants will propose to fly with one of two commercial flight platforms: a high-altitude balloon operated by World View of Tucson, Arizona, or the Xodiac suborbital rocket-powered lander operated by Astrobotic of Pittsburgh. The high-altitude balloon will provide approximately four hours of flight time at 70,000 feet (21,000 meters) with exposure to Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere, high-altitude radiation, and perspective views of Earth, while the lander will fly for approximately two minutes at an altitude of 80 feet (approximately 25 meters) over a test field designed to simulate the Moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA encourages students and their instructors to submit\nexperiment ideas even if they have no prior experience with these activities. A\nwide variety of resources are available to support teams through the submission\nprocess, including two upcoming virtual educator workshops and a virtual field\ntrip. Winning teams will receive technical support and mentorship from Future\nEngineers, who will help students learn the skills they need to turn their\nexperiment idea into reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTechRise was an amazing STEM experience for my students,\u201d\nsaid Gregory Tucker, educator lead for the TechRise team at Nesbitt Discovery\nAcademy in Asheville, North Carolina, a winner of the second TechRise\nchallenge. \u201cIt was wonderful to see the excitement in the group when the final\ntest was complete, all sensors and data collection were working correctly, and\nour experiment was ready for launch. The confidence and pride that these\nstudents gained over the months working on this project was immeasurable.\u201d The\nNesbitt Discovery Academy team’s experiment recently flew on a high-altitude\nballoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To enter the competition, teams will propose their\nexperiment idea online using the design guidelines and proposal template on the\ncompetition site. Winners will be announced in January 2024. The selected\nstudent teams will build their payloads from January to May, and the final\nexperiments will take flight in summer 2024.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NASA TechRise Challenge is led by NASA\u2019s Flight Opportunities program, which rapidly demonstrates technologies for space exploration and the expansion of space commerce through suborbital testing with industry flight providers. Flight Opportunities is based at the agency\u2019s Armstrong Flight Research Center<\/a> in Edwards, California, and is part of NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate<\/a> (STMD). TechRise is also supported by the NASA Tournament Lab, part of STMD’s Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about the challenge and to register<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo above – One of two commercial platforms slated for flight tests in this year’s NASA TechRise Student Challenge, Astrobotic’s Xodiac is a vertical takeoff vertical landing rocket-powered testbed for simulating lunar and planetary landings as well as a variety of other technology applications for space exploration. Credits: NASA\/Lauren Hughes NASA is calling on middle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace-education","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/NASA_Lauren-Hughes-edit.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26474,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26472\/revisions\/26474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}