UMN Balloon Team Prepares for April 8 Total Eclipse

The University of Minnesota Ballooning Team is traveling to Indiana to fly balloon-borne experiments during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The UMN Ballooning Team will be in the path of totality for several minutes, when the moon completely blocks out the face of the sun. Flight camera footage from the total eclipse […]


U of MN Ballooning Team Travels to Study Annular Eclipse

The University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Eclipse Ballooning Team travels to New Mexico to fly 360-cameras and sensors on weather balloon flights during the annular solar eclipse on October 14, 2023. Monitor their live-steam (only while the eclipse is in progress) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_LriuMdA-M.


Competition Announcement: Unique NASA Opportunity to Design, Build, and Launch High-Power Rockets

The Minnesota Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC), working with the Tripoli Minnesota High-Power Rocketry Club, hereby announces the 2023-2024 Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition. The fly-off will be held in Minnesota, but this competition is open to college and university student teams from across the nation during the 2023-2024 academic year. This competition is an […]