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PROJECT TECHRISE

Astral Orbit won the NASA TechRise design competition and will build a miniature satellite to collect data on regolith while onboard a NASA-sponsored mission.

The requirements for the NASA TechRise Challenge are:

Mission: Develop an experiment for a suborbital rocket or high weather balloon.

Status: Project Shipped

Team Members:

Ben Cook

Alex Chen (Older)

Rusty Willis

Himanth Bobba

Andrew Wu

Aniruddh Kommareddy

Dennison Harris

Andrew Cook

Lillian Yu

Trevor Pinkstaff

Landon Buscher

Shyam Punnachalil

Alex Chen (Younger)

Jason Zhao

Noah Southerland

OUR PROPOSALS

Glass Buildings

POLYMERIZED ADHESIVES

Alex Chen, Ben Cook, and Rusty Willis

Glass Buildings

REGOLITH (SELECTED)

Ben Cook and Alex Chen

Glass Buildings

FLIGHT COMPUTERS

Alex Chen and Ben Cook

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