Program Offers Students Real Mission Experience, Hands-on Work with Innovative Technology, continued

CSGC provides students with hands-on experience in designing, building flying, operating, and analyzing real space engineering and science experiments. Students participate in all experiment phases from initial concept through analysis of the data and publication of the results. Graduate and undergraduate students from aerospace, mechanical, and electrical engineering, as well as computer science, physics and other scientific disciplines are involved. NASA provides regular flight opportunities for small Space Grant experiments on balloons, rockets, and on the Shuttle. Current projects include Citizen Explorer I, a micro-satellite mission, and Three Corner Satellite, a nanosatellite constellation mission.

Students usually start working on Space Grant projects earning Independent Study credits. Students who do well in these Independents Study opportunities are typically offered positions on student teams. Since its inception, hundreds of students have worked thousands of hours alongside researchers, faculty and industry professionals — frequently in cutting-edge research.

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