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The NASA Vision:
To improve life here,
To extend life to there,
To find life beyond.
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Home: LaunchOregon
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 LaunchOregon provides a cost-effective way to expose students of all ages to hands-on science, engineering, and math activities in a near-space environment. Practical team-building skills are developed as students prepare for the next generation workforce in aerospace, science, engineering, and technology.
LaunchOregon in the News!
2006 Balloon Flights
| DATE |
HEIGHT (ft.) |
STATUS |
DESCRIPTION |
| 04.07.2006 |
50 |
Recovered |
Tethered at 60 feet - Mars Lego rover dropped from a tethered balloon for The SMILE Program Middle School Challenge. (OSU) |
| 05.20.2006 |
89,000 |
Recovered |
Journey to the Edge of Space course at OIT with 5th Grade teachers from Ferguson and Shasta Elementary Schools, as well as high school and college students. (OIT) |
| 05.21.2006 |
101,000 |
Recovered |
Inaugural launch from OIT Campus. (SOU/ScienceWorks) |
| 05.25.2006 |
108,000 |
Recovered |
Joint launch with PSU. 4th and 5th grade science experiments from Faulconer-Chapman Explorer School in Sheridan, OR. (OSU/PSU) |
| 06.07.2006 |
68,837 |
Unrecovered |
6th grade science experiments from Faulconer-Chapman Explorer School launched from Camp Cascade. (OSU) |
| 06.15.2006 |
123,634 |
Recovered |
Lunar periscope on a polyethylene balloon launched from Millican, OR (PSU) |
| 06.28.2006 |
101,000 |
Recovered |
Joint launch with GFU. K-12 educator workshop from Millican OR (PSU) |
| 06.28.2006 |
87,500 |
Recovered |
Chautauqua Short Course Workshop with college engineering and science instructors from across the country and high school and elementary science teachers from Oregon. (OIT) |
| 08.07.2006 |
80,000 |
Recovered |
OIT Pre-College Program, Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD) for 10th and 12th graders. (OIT) |
| 08.17.2006 |
114,859 |
Recovered |
Joint launch with OMSI. High school student science camp at Camp Hancock. (PSU) |
| 11.29.2006 |
98,000 |
Recovered |
Nuclear science experiment student design challenge. (OSU) |
Program Goals
- Expose students to the design of space hardware
- Provide a platform for students to fly their designs in engineering and science
- Develop teambuilding skills
- An inexpensive way to get students involved with and excited about NASA
Program Outline
- Students design and create payloads that carry experiments and data collection tools.
- Participating universities provide a launch platform to successfully launch the payloads.
- "Chase teams" follow the path of the balloon, tracked by Global Positioning System (GPS) to recover payloads
- Students analyze the recovered data.
Why a Balloon?
- Weather balloons provide an inexpensive method of transportation, carrying payloads to high-altitudes (50~100,000 ft) to provide an experience with a near-space environment
- Designing and implementing a balloon payload in a team environment can offer a unique educational experience. It is one of the few opportunities where students can become involved in all aspects of a scientific experiment.
- Relatively short development time allows students to have hands-on experience building the payload, flying it, and analyzing the data that is gathered, while developing team-building skills.
- Instruments such as GPS and cameras placed on balloons are recovered approximately 90% of the time after the completion of the flight. This means that the same instrument can be used multiple times, lending itself to a cost-effective program.
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