Small Satellites for Larger Missions

ECBOCES and STEM School highlands Ranch were hosts to en entire series of virtual aerospace workshops for teachers.

VIRTUAL PLC (Professional Learning Communities)

As Emma Richardson of ECBOCES told her rural schools:

The idea of this series is to start connecting teachers with industry partners who are willing to embark on projects with your students. These discussions are to introduce you with people at Lockheed Martin who are wanting to work with educators and introduce your students to the world of aerospace and engineering.

Lockheed Martin Presenter: Sue Linch
Janus Program Mechanical Lead, Deep Space Exploration

March 11, 2020

4:30 pm MST

Janus is a pair of microsatellites traveling to two binary asteroid systems. This program is part of the new SIMPLEx class of missions funded by NASA and is a partnership between CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin Space.
SIMPLEx missions are basically rideshares on a much larger mission and are a unique overhead luggage-sized way to more quickly explore gaps in knowledge of our solar system. They come with their own unique challenges.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/small-satellite-concept-finalists-target-moon-mars-and-beyond
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-cubesat-launch-initiative-celebrates-its-100th-cubesat-mission-deployment
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/lucy-the-first-mission-to-jupiter-s-trojans
https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/

Typically, when I come to schools, I use my most recent missions to talk about ‘what’s new in space exploration’. Depending on the particular teacher/audience, I tailor to whatever your class happens to be learning: space, weather, engineering, materials science, space environments, physics, and spacecraft subsystems and build. I have taught from Kindergarten to High School including virtual Skype classrooms as far away as the state of Washington.

Eventually, with the small satellite tools that are available to universities, I would like to bring my deep space mission experience to a small satellite workshop that can be adapted to different classroom ages. My goal, coming from a rural school in Idaho, is to help students have a dream, face adversity, and to see that it can be achievable in real life.

Sue Linch has engaged with students and teachers from urban and rural communities. Here is just one example of how she opens doors of opportunity for rural students. LINK

Overwhelmed in a Good Way

Sue Linch’s Virtual PLC resources for teachers:

https://www.goes-r.gov/mission/news.html

https://www.goes-r.gov/

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk.php?sat=G16

The Life of a Solar Flare https://youtu.be/kyhsBqB2x_Y

SPIDER LIGHTENING https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES-R-Series-Satellites

AIRPLANES AVOID Lightening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxHyIDBx4ds

GLM SEVERE STORMS APRIL 28-29, 2017 https://youtu.be/Uf9C-yr9iaA

SEVERE STORMS IN COLORADO https://youtu.be/mUGw-y4YpME

GLM OVERLAY DATA ON IRMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3JLisAzstw

FIRE TEMPERATURE AND GEOCOLOR http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop.asp?data_folder=loop_of_the_day/goes-16/20170903000000&number_of_images_to_display=400&loop_speed_ms=100