Kentucky Space
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Kentucky Space is a non-profit consortium of private and public universities, companies, and other organizations with the goal of designing and leading innovative space missions within realistic budgets and objectives. The enterprise is supported by the Kentucky Space Grant Consortium
and developed out of the programs of the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation.
Kentucky Space Grant Consortium
The Kentucky Space Grant Consortium is a partnership between Kentucky and NASA. Projects include the University of Kentucky's Big Blue, Kentucky Space, and Northern Kentucky University's Moon Buggy Project....
and developed out of the programs of the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation.
Consortium
- Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation
- Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education
- Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation
- Kentucky Space Grant ConsortiumKentucky Space Grant ConsortiumThe Kentucky Space Grant Consortium is a partnership between Kentucky and NASA. Projects include the University of Kentucky's Big Blue, Kentucky Space, and Northern Kentucky University's Moon Buggy Project....
- BelcanBelcanBelcan Corporation is an engineering consulting firm headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Belcan has employees in ~70 locations around the world, serving a wide range of industries, with sales over $500 million. It is among the top five largest engineering firms in the United States.-History:Belcan...
- Morehead State UniversityMorehead State UniversityMorehead State University is a public, co-educational university located in Morehead, Kentucky, United States in the foothills of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Rowan County, midway between Lexington, Kentucky, and Huntington, West Virginia. The 2012 edition of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S...
- Murray State UniversityMurray State UniversityMurray State University, located in the city of Murray, Kentucky, is a four-year public university with approximately 10,400 students. The school is Kentucky’s only public university to be listed in the U.S.News & World Report regional university top tier for the past 20 consecutive years...
- University of KentuckyUniversity of KentuckyThe University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
- Space Systems Laboratory - University of LouisvilleUniversity of LouisvilleThe University of Louisville is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General...
- Western Kentucky UniversityWestern Kentucky UniversityWestern Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. It was formally founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier....
- Kentucky Community and Technical College SystemKentucky Community and Technical College SystemHeadquartered in Versailles, Kentucky, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System comprises 16 colleges with over 68 campuses. Programs offered include associate degrees, pre-baccalaureate education to transfer to a public 4-year institution; adult education, continuing and developmental...
Partners
- NASA Ames Research CenterNASA Ames Research CenterThe Ames Research Center , is one of the United States of America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration 10 major field centers.The centre is located in Moffett Field in California's Silicon Valley, near the high-tech companies, entrepreneurial ventures, universities, and other...
- Kentucky Virtual Campus
Projects
- KySat-1, a CubeSatCubeSatA CubeSat is a type of miniaturized satellite for space research that usually has a volume of exactly one liter , has a mass of no more than 1.33 kilograms, and typically uses commercial off-the-shelf electronics components...
designed by Kentucky Space which defines a standard reusable bus. - Space Express 1, a sub-orbital solid-fuel rocket payload launched in 2007 from White Sands Missile RangeWhite Sands Missile RangeWhite Sands Missile Range is a rocket range of almost in parts of five counties in southern New Mexico. The largest military installation in the United States, WSMR includes the and the WSMR Otera Mesa bombing range...
. - Balloon-1, a high-altitude balloon payload launched from Bowling GreenBowling Green, KentuckyBowling Green is the third-most populous city in the state of Kentucky after Louisville and Lexington, with a population of 58,067 as of the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Warren County and the principal city of the Bowling Green, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area with an estimated 2009...
, KentuckyKentuckyThe Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
on July 14, 2008. - Space Express 2, an inertial measurement unitInertial measurement unitAn inertial measurement unit, or IMU, is an electronic device that measures and reports on a craft's velocity, orientation, and gravitational forces, using a combination of accelerometers and gyroscopes. IMUs are typically used to maneuver aircraft, including UAVs, among many others, and...
payload designed for a Garvey Spacecraft Corporation rocket.