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Welcome! The Minnesota Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC) is part of the NASA Funded National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program established by Congress in 1988. Nationally, Space Grant is a network of 52 university-based statewide consortia (all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico) with nearly 1000 affiliates.

People Spotlight

  • Akshay Naik

    Akshay Naik

    Akshay is a PSEO student working on projects in the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department at the University of Minnesota, especially the MnSGC’s High-Altitude Ballooning Lab and the Small Satellite (CubeSate) Lab. Akshay is passionate about satellite propulsion and energy efficiency via renewable sources like solar panels. Akshay is currently working on a project to […]Read More »

Project Spotlight

  • Bulldog Rocketry Team

    Bulldog Rocketry Team

    The Bulldog Rocketry Team from the University of Minnesota – Duluth is designing and building a rocket, propelled by a student designed hybrid engine, to fly in the 30,000 ft class at the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC). When Bulldog Rocketry launches the rocket, it will have a winged drone stored in it that can […]Read More »

News/Events Spotlight

  • The Sverdrup Visiting Scientist Program: Dr. Pamela Ronald

    The Sverdrup Visiting Scientist Program: Dr. Pamela Ronald

    On Monday, April 15, 2019, at 10:00am in the Hoversten Chapel on-campus at Augsburg University, the Minnesota Space Grant Consortium will be jointly hosting a guest lecture by the renowned Dr. Pamela Ronald. Pamela Ronald is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center, University of California, Davis. Ronald studies rice […]Read More »

Upcoming Events by (or of interest to) the MnSGC

  • Occasional stratospheric weather balloon launches throughout the year.  Write to the “Contact Us” link for more details.

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Affiliates of the MN Space Grant Consortium

  • Bemidji State University
  • Bethel University
  • Carleton College
  • Concordia College
  • Fond Du Lac Tribal Community College
  • Macalester College
  • Southwest Minnesota State University
  • St. Catherine University
  • University of Minnesota - Driven to Discover
  • University of Minnesota, Duluth
  • University of St. Thomas

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Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0153
P: 612-626-9295 | F: 612-626-1558

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