Former NASA person trying to small spacecraft projects to FIRST

[TheBlenderMan]

Originally Posted by jeffnosanov

If I am successful in starting this, there would probably be one or at most two pilot projects in the first year to show that it can be done. As to the location of those, I have no clue, but probably in an area near me (Washington, D.C. metro area.)

Even if there are only a few building sites there should probably be more training sites or maybe even an online training course for those interested.

[protoserge]

Hi Jeff,

I'm still not completely clear on what your goal is here. Are you trying to find interest among members of FIRST programs to join as users/members of a Cubesat design team? Support roles for the nonprofit itself? Gauge interest in building a FIRST-sponsored Cubesat?

I'll send you a PM as I would like to discuss more of what you have in mind, especially the broad audience education aspect.

[TheBlenderMan]

Originally Posted by stinglikeabee

Hi Jeff,

I'm still not completely clear on what your goal is here. Are you trying to find interest among members of FIRST programs to join as users/members of a Cubesat design team? Support roles for the nonprofit itself? Gauge interest in building a FIRST-sponsored Cubesat?

I'll send you a PM as I would like to discuss more of what you have in mind, especially the broad audience education aspect.

From what I can tell it is all three.

[VioletElizabeth]

Originally Posted by jeffnosanov

The absolute best way to help make this happen is to get as many replies on this thread showing interest - ideally we would crash the forum system. That will get their attention.

I don't think I've ever seen the forum crash, and right now it's summer, so many teams aren't meeting. That being said, it sounds like a really cool project. Outer space is always cool!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by VioletElizabeth

I don't think I've ever seen the forum crash, and right now it's summer

I've seen it bog WAAAAAYYYYYY down, though. On Kickoff, when everybody was scrambling for "what did we just get ourselves into". Before the server upgrades that allow Brandon to pull in extra resources happened (read: back when Kickoff server boosts were to put the server in a bulletproof case to contain the explosion to just the CD server ).

Haven't seen that in a few years, though.

[astro70]

Team 4188, Columbus Space Program, is working on a Cubesat - http://columbusspace.wikispaces.com/FluxDemonSat

We are hoping that the NASA Cubesat Initiative (https://goo.gl/8dKCzg) will open up again - deadline last year was November.

So definitely an interest!

[TheBlenderMan]

Originally Posted by astro70

Team 4188, Columbus Space Program, is working on a Cubesat - http://columbusspace.wikispaces.com/FluxDemonSat

We are hoping that the NASA Cubesat Initiative (https://goo.gl/8dKCzg) will open up again - deadline last year was November.

So definitely an interest!

That's cool, you'll have to tell us when you launch it.