This year two students have signed up for dual enrollment with Near Space Engineering. One student will be investigating if it is possible to design the experiment module in such a way as to have it weather cock with the winds. While the winds are variable there should be pockets of relative consistency which would yield a constant pointing orientation. This project is in anticipation of needing a relatively stable orientation for the solar eclipse launch. The second project is about acoustics. I'm not sure of the details as of yet. In addition we will be carrying the 4th grade pongsats again this year.
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One area of interest is to stabilize the flight of the modules. Normally they spin wildly around. While this is really not a problem it does make the imaging equipment go bonkers trying to maintain focus and such. So on the next launch I plan on attaching a small propeller at the end of a shaft that protrudes from the center of a side of imaging module. My thinking is that it will produce enough sideways drag with cross winds to orient the module along one axis. Of course I could also place fin
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