Welcome to Launch PSU

…Launching, tracking and recovering high altitude experiment payloads to the edge of space using balloons is fun and surprisingly challenging…to design, build, test, and conduct such experiments is also ideal training for engineering students--particularly those students interested in aeroSPACE...

In part under the generous support of the NASA Oregon Space Grant Consortium, PSU Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering offers a Jr./Sr. level design course to scheme, design, build and launch such balloon payloads. It is formally called ME406 LaunchPSU (LPSU) and can be taken for up to 4 credits. There are certainly technical course requirements, but this is fun enough that we conduct launches for other educational institutions, and plenty of non-engineering, even non-PSU, people have become involved. This site gives a fair overview of what we have accomplished to date...

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