News/Events

Freshmen students in AEM 1301: Lighter-Than-Air RC Vehicles built and flew multiple styles of RC blimps, including one rigid airship, during the fall of 2019. The class exhibited some of the vehicles they built in the Balas Atrium of Akerman Hall on Dec. 10. Photo Credits: CSE

The MnSGC and Tripoli MN, a local high-power rocket club, hosted the 2018-2019 Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocket Competition on May 18 and 19, 2019. In this competition college student teams designed and built high-power rockets to go supersonic but as “efficiently” as possible. Team presentations about rocket designs were held at the Split Rocks […]

States from the Midwest Region of NASA’s Space Grant program will hold a public videocon on November 14 containing three back-to-back “Short Talks.” The three topics for this videocon are (a) Make to Innovate: Use of hands-on learning in STEM Education, (b) SmallSat Swarm Proximity Operations: Herding Cats Might be Easier!, and (c) Measuring Light […]

The MnSGC is running an Intercollegiate Quadcopter Challenge for student teams from colleges and universities around the state. In this six-month-long activity the teams, plus their faculty advisor, will build a quadcopter from a kit, outfit it with camera(s) and microcontroller-logged sensors, then use it to “explore” an indoor area. In-person (AKA fly-off) activities will […]

The MnSGC and Tripoli MN, a local high-power rocketry club, are hosting the 2019-2020 Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocket Competition in May of 2020. In this competition college student teams will design, build, and fly a high-power rocket to accomplish a “photography/altitude” challenge in which they will try to minimize roll during ascent to get […]

Michele A. Brekke will be doing a meet & greet in the Gary Balas Atrium on October 4, 2019 from 10 to 11:45 a.m. She will be sharing her journey through her career and taking questions afterwards. Brekke is an AEM alumna (B.S. ’75, M.S. ’77) and now a flight manager for the Boeing CST-100 Starliner operational […]

On Monday, April 29, 2019, college/university students around the nation were invited to watch a live-stream of “The Future in Space” featuring NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and including a link-up with astronauts on-board the International Space Station. If you missed the webcast, you can watch a recording of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW-j7XGb2yc  

States from the Midwest Region of NASA’s Space Grant program held a videocon on April 19 containing three back-to-back “short talks.” The three topics for this videocon were (a) Teaching Introductory Physics Using High-Power Rocketry, (b) Doing Plant Genetics Research on the ISS, and (c) Using Rideable Hoverboards for “Astronaut Training.” See this flier for […]

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 […]

At approximately 1:53 PM Central Time on Monday, November 26, flight controllers and mission operations specialists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) received word from the pair of experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats about the successful touchdown of the InSight lander on Mars’ Elysium Planitia. The spacecraft’s journey from Earth lasted almost seven months […]