Trip to Norway, June '05

Two members of the SPIRIT Project Structures team were given the opportunity to travel to Sandefjord, Norway to present a paper they had written for the European Space Agency Sounding Rocket International Conference. The paper detailed the successes, and failures of composite deck plates developed for the Penn State SPIRIT II sounding rocket which launched in October of 2003. The trip was very successful as they were able to display SPIRIT II's method to reduce the structural weight of a sounding rocket to prominant people within the industry.

However, an even greater success was that they represented the ESPRIT Project, Penn State Engineering and the NASA Sounding Rocket Program to the world's space agencies.

Presentation


ESPRIT Project Students and Professors of both Norway and Penn State


Bruce Davis & Brian Pomeroy in Mid-Presentation

Article about student involvement at the conference in the Norwegian National Paper


Many of countries who attened the conference formally presented their progress during the conference kick off


Reception before closing dinner

Sandefjord at Midnight, first of June

A beautiful day on a retired whaling ship in the North Sea
A sincere thanks to the Penn State Department of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Office of Undergraduate Education and Schreyers Honors College for funding our trip. A thanks to the SPIRIT II sponsers: NASA, The Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium, Penn State and Lockheed Martian. Finnally a special appreciation to our professors, our payload manager Tim Wheeler and all those who worked on the SPIRIT II composite deckplates.
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