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  • Austin Langford

    Austin Langford

    Austin Langford is from Germantown, Wisconsin, and majored in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. During his time in school, he participated in high-power rocketry and stratospheric eclipse ballooning. Austin had a summer 2017 internship at NASA Langley but returned to Minnesota in time to rejoin the ballooning team […]Read More »

Projects

  • Taylor-Couette Flow Apparatus Formation at Bethel University

    Taylor-Couette Flow Apparatus Formation at Bethel University

    At Bethel University, student Jake Stein worked to build three Taylor-Couette flow apparatuses for their Physics department. The creation of these apparatuses required research and prototyping to be done beforehand in order to best understand the math and science behind these physical devices. After the Taylor-Couette apparatuses have been assembled, future fluid mechanics students and […]Read More »

News & Events

  • Minnesota Space Grant Consortium announces Self-Cleaning Solar Station Intercollegiate Challenge

    Minnesota Space Grant Consortium announces Self-Cleaning Solar Station Intercollegiate Challenge

    The Challenge Imagine – it’s the middle of winter in Minnesota. Snowstorms and frigid temperatures have left a layer of ice and snow on your solar-powered weather station, causing it to stop working. Can you design a self-cleaning solar station that can keep itself clean enough to keep operating throughout the winter? Challenge: Design, build, […]Read More »
  • Occasional stratospheric weather balloon launches throughout the year.  Write to the “Contact Us” link for more details.

Affiliates of NASA’s Minnesota Space Grant Consortium

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

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