Pennsylvania Space Grant Funds Team in NASA’s RockOn! Program

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — A team from Penn State Harrisburg spent a week at a NASA facility over the summer, building a scientific experiment and sending it to space through the RockOn! program.

NASA’s RockOn! is a weeklong, hands-on workshop teaching participants how to create a sounding rocket experiment and then launch it into space at the end of the workshop.

Penn State Harrisburg students Trent Townsend, a mechanical engineering major, and Neil Lerch, a graduate student in electrical engineering, and University Park student Sara Jambhekar, who is studying aerospace engineering, participated, along with Brian Maicke, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State Harrisburg. The students’ participation was funded by the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium.

Maicke and the students spent a week in Virginia at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, where they built a scientific payload consisting of a Geiger counter, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, pressure, and temperature measurements.

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Original Post Date: Oct. 21, 2024