Main Boulder

Design, building, testing and flying satellites is challenging and requires the best of everyone involved. This work is typically the type of experience student look forward to getting involved with once they have graduated. However, at the Colorado Space Grant Consortium (COSGC), students are getting this experience before they graduate. COSGC students are meeting the challenge and building high-altitude Balloon Satellites and Earth orbiting satellites. If you are interested in getting this experience and giving you the edge to get your career off to a terrific start, get involved with us.

COSGC is a NASA funded organization located on 12 campuses across Colorado. Our vision is to provide Colorado students with experiences in space to prepare them for NASA's future space programs. Our students...

Design and build satellite systems
Build and operate telescopes
Test, fly and control satellites
Fly high-altitude experiments
Reach out to K-12 students
Publish high-tech papers
Work side-by-side with industry
Test the latest technology from aerospace companies

So if you are interested in getting involved, please review our website and contact us. All majors from engineering to sciences are encouraged to get involved in very interdisciplinary teams. There are many ways to get involved from a few hours a week as a volunteer, to receiving independent study credit and paid positions. Contact the Research Coordinator, Brian Sanders for more information ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

Chris Koehler
Director

Student Highlight

Joseph Kennedy

As a senior mechanical engineering student at Colorado State University, Space Grant was the first major capstone of Joseph Kennedy's college experience. Joseph first heard of Space Grant when two of his aerospace engineering peers invited him to attend an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) meeting as school. He became extremely excited and applied for a position to work with Space Grant, after hearing Dr. Azar Yalin (Affiliate Director) and several of his peers speak of their positive experiences while participating in the program. After Joseph's acceptance into the program, he began work on the Mars exploration rover pneumatic prototype, informally known as Frogger. Space Grant allowed Joseph the opportunity to work not only with his peers, both at his university and other colleges in the surrouding area, but additionally he met working professionals one-on-one and got their thoughts and advice on his project which helped him grow as an engineer. Upon graduation Joseph is applying to work either at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California as a machinist, or in the renewable energy industry as either a design, manufacture or an applications engineer.