Session
Technical Session XIII:Education
Abstract
Huge reductions in the cost of access to space has provided the opportunities for new groups from university labs to commercial startups to produce small satellites and participate in the new space revolution. Ardusat expands this democratization trend to almost 200 participating K-12 schools by running programs building cubesat models with consumer engineering hardware in the classroom, then using these skills to design and implement real space experiments run on Spire Global's constellation of 3U cubesats on a shared sensor payload platform.
The hands-on classroom component combined with the experiment on a real orbiting satellite enables a huge number of new students from diverse and non traditional backgrounds with an authentic space experience that leaves them excited about working in science and technology and starts them down the path of becoming the next generation of satellite scientists and engineers.
Ardusat Space Program: Training the Next Generation of Satellite Scientists and Engineers
Huge reductions in the cost of access to space has provided the opportunities for new groups from university labs to commercial startups to produce small satellites and participate in the new space revolution. Ardusat expands this democratization trend to almost 200 participating K-12 schools by running programs building cubesat models with consumer engineering hardware in the classroom, then using these skills to design and implement real space experiments run on Spire Global's constellation of 3U cubesats on a shared sensor payload platform.
The hands-on classroom component combined with the experiment on a real orbiting satellite enables a huge number of new students from diverse and non traditional backgrounds with an authentic space experience that leaves them excited about working in science and technology and starts them down the path of becoming the next generation of satellite scientists and engineers.
