  Citizen Explorer I Satellite Nears Completion
Extra hours, sleepless nights and growing excitement. That about sums up the activity "orbiting" the Citizen Explorer I satellite project this fall. A project of the Colorado Space Grant Consortium headquartered at CU-Boulder, Citizen Explorer I is a student-designed satellite that will measure and transmit global atmospheric ozone, aerosol and UV observations to participating K-12 schools for analysis. College students, professors, K-12 students and teachers, and space enthusiasts throughout Colorado, the nation, and the world have eagerly watched the progress of the satellite, whose mission is to unite all these groups working together to apply technology to improve learning, teaching, and research. Schools in China, Japan, France, Chile, and Canada are among those who will serve as ground stations for the data analysis. Engineers at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver and Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. in Boulder have provided assistance and access to their testing facilities for the Citizen Explorer free of charge this fall. "This project is going to be an educational experience on various levels," said senior Kyran Owen-Mankovitch, who serves as program manager. "It has provided me and many other students with an amazing opportunity, and we are taking the project to a whole new level by allowing K-12 students from all over the world to participate in an exciting study that pertains to them in a very direct way." For more information on Citizen Explorer I, including launch status, visit www-sgc.colorado.edu.  Engineering Home |
