Colorado Undergraduate Space Research Symposium April 18th, 2009

Thank you to all the students who submitted papers, presented their work or had a demonstration.  You helped make this year's Symposium great.  We will continue to grow the Symposium next year with a greater number of industry.  Thank you to our Sponsors and Judges for helping to encourage great research and development from around Colorado. All Session winners received $250 and the Grand prize winner received $1000.

  The 2010 Symposium will be Saturday April 17th, 2010.  All papers, presentations, and pictures from the Symposium are included below.

 

Session Winners:

Session A

HabiSAT: Geographical and Environmental Mapping BalloonSat
Prize Sponsor: Ball Aerospace

Session B

RocketSat V: AirCore
Prize Sponsor: Red Canyon Engineering

Session D

Guidance and Navigation for a Re-deployable Multi-rover System   
Prize Sponsor: Lockheed Martin

Grand Prize and Session C

Dynamically Adaptive Inverted Pendulum Platform
Prize Sponsor: Colorado Space Business Roundtable

 

Demonstration and Poster Session Winners

University of Northern Colorado Robotics team
Prize Sponsor: Lockheed Martin

 

 

Drag and Atmospheric Neutral Density Explorer (DANDE)  Spherical Spacecraft Design Challenges   
Prize Sponsor: Ball Aerospace

 

Symposium Papers

The Colorado Space Grant Symposium is an opportunity for students to present their current research and ideas in space related fields to their peers, industry and academia.  Four schools from around Colorado submitted papers this year and presented their research during the Symposium on April 18th.  Teams and individuals, freshman through seniors, have researched a variety of topics and presented their research or practical engineering projects.

• Paper - Technical Content, Scientific Merit and Originality (45%)
• Paper - Practical Application (15%)
• Paper - Clarity of Writing (10%)
• Presentation - Visual and Oral presentation and response to questions (30%)

Paper	Presentations	Notes
Session A
CUSRS09_02 Slosh Verification Experiment.pdf	Presentation
CUSRS09_03 HabiSAT Geographical and Environmental Mapping.pdf	Presentation
CUSRS09_04 DANDE Spherical Spacecraft Design Challenges.pdf	Presentation
Session B
CUSRS09_09 Cubesat Testing the Viability of High Speed Communications.pdf	Presentation
CUSRS09_10 RocketSat V AirCore.pdf	Presentation
CUSRS09_12 BOWSER Feasibility of a Balloon-Stationed Optical System.pdf	Presentation
Session C
CUSRS09_05 Internet Robotics Using an Open Source Platform.pdf	Not available
CUSRS09_07 Dynamically Adaptive Inverted Pendulum Platform.pdf	Presentation
Guest Submission: DANDE Science (paper not available SmallSat entry)	Presentation
Session D
CUSRS09_11 TREADS NanoSat.pdf	Presentation
CUSRS09_13 Lunar Escape Astronaut Recovery Rover Program.pdf	Presentation
CUSRS09_15 Guidance and Navigation for a Re-deployable Multi-rover.pdf	Coming Soon

 

Symposium Pictures