AAE students win Fall 2016 Orbital ATK S.P.A.C.E. Awards

A team of students from AAE 251- Introduction to Aerospace Design has been chosen as the winner of the Fall 2016 Orbital ATK S.P.A.C.E. Awards. Student teams in the class were tasked with designing an undenied supply delivery system (USDS) that is capable of delivering a 2,000 kg payload anywhere on Earth with notable populations.

photo of Prof. Michael Grant with Orbital ATK winning teamA team of students from AAE 251- Introduction to Aerospace Design has been chosen as the winner of the Fall 2016 Orbital ATK S.P.A.C.E. Awards.

Student teams in the class were tasked with designing an undenied supply delivery system (USDS) that is capable of delivering a 2,000 kg payload anywhere on Earth with notable populations. The USDS had to consist of three parts:

  1. an aircraft that takes off from an Air Force Base and travels to the launch point (and later returns to a landing site)
  2. a rocket that is dropped from this aircraft and carries the supplies to orbit
  3. an orbital maneuvering system that is capable of changing the orbit of the supplies and deorbiting the supplies for delivery on the ground.

Orbital ATK chose the winning team. Certificates were presented to the students during the Spring 2017 meeting of AAE’s Industrial Advisory Council by Assistant Prof. Michael Grant, who taught the course.

Pictured (l to r): Prof. Michael Grant, Brady Walter, Jacob Nunez-Kearny, Vincent Cassi, and Ethan Plaehn

Publish date: May 1, 2017