Microgravity Flight Project Overview
See the About Us page for more information about the Flux Pinning Research Project team and for the application to become a member.
We will be having a recruiting info session on Thursday, Sept 2nd in Upson 215 at 5:30.
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Project RAGNAR - 2010The Cornell Flux Pinning Microgravity Team was selected for a second microgravity opportunity through NASA's FAST program. RAGNAR, or Robust, Autonomous Grappler for Non-contacting Actuation and Reconfiguration, will demonstrate a docking and reconfiguration manuever between two free-floating nano-sat mockup modules. The flight will take place during September 2010, when the team will fly the experiment. |
See the Experiment Design page for more information about Project RAGNAR.
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Flux-Pinned, Non-Contacting Joints for Small Spacecraft Reconfiguration - 2009In August 2009 the Cornell Flux Pinning Microgravity team flew their first experiment through NASA's FAST program. The experiment demonstrated flux pinning in microgravity conditions and showed how flux pinning could be used to form a non-contacting revolute joint. |
See the Experimental Results page for more information about FAST 2009.
Laura Jones (left) and William Wilson (right) demonstrate the flux pinning of a mockup CubeSat to a dewar containing superconductors in microgravity. This CubeSat mockup contains a flux-pinned revolute joint. From the FAST 2009 microgravity flight.
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Microgravity Projects
Flight Team
- Jillian Gorsuch
- Joseph Shoer
- Laura Jones
- William Wilson
Ground Team
- Jason D'Souza
- Christopher Jewison
- Andrew Kerns
- Timothy Kim
- Stephanie Kubala
Sponsors
- To become a sponsor, please contact Laura Jones at llj7 (at) cornell.edu
Recruitment
- Interested in joining the project? See About Us