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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

  • Ryan Bowers

    Ryan Bowers

    Ryan Bowers is from Buffalo, MN, and is majoring in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. He has participated in multiple MnSGC projects including high-power rocketry and stratospheric ballooning. He spent the summer of 2017 in the MnSGC Ballooning Lab developing and refining payloads for eclipse flights, and helped […]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

  • New High-Power Rocket Teams Launched on Nov. 10

    New High-Power Rocket Teams Launched on Nov. 10

    Six college/university rocket teams, coached through a high-power rocket build using video-delivered lessons from the MnSGC at the U of MN – Twin Cities, launched their dual-deploy kit-rockets at the Tripoli MN launch field near North Branch on Nov. 10, 2018. This fall’s teams are from Bethel University, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Paul College, University […]Read More »

Upcoming Events by (or of interest to) the MnSGC

  • Stratospheric weather balloon launches during the fall.  Write to the “Contact Us” link for more details.
  • High-power rocketry lessons for new college teams, delivered by videocon, during September and October.  Launch tentatively set for the second weekend of November.  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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107 Akerman Hall, 110 Union St. SE
Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0153
P: 612-626-9295 | F: 612-626-1558

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