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Purpose
This is an interdisciplinary effort to operate a satellite communication station, to explore the upper atmosphere with sensors carried aloft by high-altitude balloons, and to launch picosatellites into low Earth orbit for the purpose of conducting scientific investigations of astrophysical phenomena, the space environment or the state of the Earth. There are many opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to engage in scientific and engineering research projects.
Research and Design Project Opportunities
- For CubeSat, satellite base station and high altitude balloon activities, see the Opportunities for Students page.
- Undergraduate research and engineering senior project opportunities are also available in the Radio Telescope Project, which consists of ongoing development of a small radio telescope, observations of numerous sources of RF radiation in the universe and observations in the visible part of the spectrum with optical telescopes.
Announcements
- Meetings are held Fridays at 5:00 in 465 Weniger.
- Join the mail list.
- Join the OSU Space Society and Society of Physics Students which have joint meetings most Mondays at 5:00 in 304 Weniger.
- The radio telescope project is a related activity that has constructed a radio telescope and is observing atomic hydrogen clouds in our galaxy and other as well as the coronasphere of the sun, pulsars and other sources of electromagnetic radiation in the 1.4 to 5 GHz range.
- Current SpaceWeather and satellite flybys.
Contacts
- Student leaders: Anthony Odenthal, Evan Marshall, Chris Schoenbein
- Faculty sponsor: Prof. William M. Hetherington, Department of Physics, 105 Weniger, 541-737-1689, email
