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Presents: Tess Caswell

It is a pleasure for the Alaska Space Grant Program to share this link about a UAF student who is working for NASA.  She is from Kenai and graduated from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in Mechanical Engineering.  It is a honor for our program to share this link about an aspiring young lady from Alaska.  Tess Caswell profile feature – Targeting NASA - is live on the NASA Portal on the following pages. Read More.

Alaska Research CubeSat (ARC) Selected for Launch
The Alaska Research CubeSat (ARC) satellite is one of 12 CubeSat payloads selected for launch under the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative. This satellite is being developed through the Alaska Space Grant sponsored Space Systems Engineering Program (SSEP) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). Read More.

BEAR 3: Launched Tuesday May 26, 2009, at 8:15pm local time
BEAR 3 finally launched Tuesday evening reaching an altitude of 86,394 ft. Total flight time was 2 hours and 37 minutes and landed (N 65° 14.836,00', W 147° 46.714,00') in the White Mountain Recreation Area 28 miles north of Fairbanks.

Alaska Space Grant engineering students in collaboration with the Arctic Amateur Radio Club (AARC) and researchers at the Geophysical Institute will fly a high altitude balloon to capture particulates from the eruption of Alaska's Mount Redoubt. Read More.

SRP5 Launch Success
The Student Rocket Project successfully launched its 5th major payload launched by UAF students since the Alaska Student Rocket Program began in 1991. The SRP5 Ionospheric Sounding and Inertial Sensing (ISIS) successfully launched from the Poker Flat Research Range on January 10, 2009.