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The Student Space Programs Laboratory (SSPL) at the Pennsylvania State University allows undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to design, fabricate, and integrate space systems. The SSPL provides hands-on projects to apply classroom knowledge to real world, interdisciplinary settings. SSPL students experience working through a complete design cycle and must develop a systems engineering mind-set in addition to their component-level experience.

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Thursday, May 15. 2008

NittanySat students present at 12th International Effects Symposium in Alexandria, Va.

Students Perry Edwards, Adam Escobar, and Andrea Wyant attended the 12th international Ionospheric Effects Symposium (IES) to present NittanySat’s mission to characterize and better understand the D-region ionosphere's effects on radiowave propagation. According to IES, the purpose of the conference is to "bridge the gap between applications and research involving ionospheric & space weather disciplines."

Discussion with Prof. Bob Schunk, author of several ionospheric books.

Students with Prof. Bodo Reinisch, Head of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences Department at University of Massachusetts Lowell and developer of the first digital ionosonde.

Students with Dr. David Anderson, NOAA -- he is well known in ionospheric modeling and calculations of ionospheric response to geomagnetic effects.

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Thursday, May 1. 2008

Students Display Work at PSU Project Showcase

Every semester, the Penn State Learning Factory (machine shop) showcases projects completed by students in the College of Engineering. This year, Nate Morgan, Ed Brouwers (below left), and Jason Miller presented SSPL's Next Generation [Sounding Rocket] Boom project while Matt Sunderland (below right) presented the NittanySat Sensor Board.