Small Satellites for Secondary Students (or ‘S4’) fills an important missing link in NASA’s educational pipeline between Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) and sounding rocket flights conducted by graduate students at research institutes. Through the S4 program, students and educators gain experience soldering and assembling payloads, building rockets, recording and analyzing scientific data.<\/p>\n
S4 is a partnership between the Education and Public Outreach group at Sonoma State University, Tripoli Rocket Association’s AeroPac prefecture and the National Association of Rocketry.<\/p>\n
Educators are able to build experimental payloads to fly on tethered weather balloons and\/or rockets, enabling students to participate in the thrill of experimental design and implementation. We have created a hardware platform and software libraries, documented in our educator’s guide and associated videos. This website provides access to additional resources for the S4 community, including blog posts, links to software libraries, electrical schematics and part lists.<\/p>\n
Currently Available S4 Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n Our general contact information can be found at http:\/\/epo.sonoma.edu\/group\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Small Satellites for Secondary Students (or ‘S4’) fills an important missing link in NASA’s educational pipeline between Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) and sounding rocket flights conducted by graduate students at research institutes. Through the S4 program, students and educators … Continue reading \n