Logikos joins other local companies in sponsorship of an ongoing Indiana Tech project with the ultimate goal of launching a rocket, designed by Indiana Tech students, into space. From
Inside INdiana Business :
The upcoming test launch on Jan. 8 is a collaborative effort between Indiana Tech and JAMSTARS, an advisory group of amateur and professional rocketeers who donate their time to assist university and high school students in the implementation of rocketry projects. With the second-generation payload and a six-inch diameter airframe, the test launch rocket is expected to reach an altitude of about three miles. Rocket recovery will take place after it has returned to dry land. If the test launch is completed successfully, the actual record-setting launch will take place in May 2005 at NASA’s Wallops Island launch facility in Virginia and will be a joint project between Indiana Tech, JAMSTARS, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Embry-Riddle will provide the rocket airframe for the May launch, which will consist of a 4.5-inch diameter upper stage and 9-inch diameter lower stage. It will carry the Indiana Tech designed payload that monitors spin, barometric, and acceleration sensors, and uses onboard computers to store flight dynamics data.
Read the full article at insideindianabusiness.com.
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2005-01-14 UPDATE: Read about
the successful result of the January 10 test launch.
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