PCC payload

Arizona Near Space Research (ANSR), a 501(c)(3) organization, promotes science, technology, education and mathematics (STEM) through Amateur Radio and High-Altitude Balloons (ARHAB) and has supported Arizona NASA Space Grant ASCEND! programs since 2001.

ERAU payload

ANSR has conducted more than 70 high-altitude balloon flights, one of which reached an altitude of 117,127 feet. Many carry student payload projects. More exciting flights which YOU can participate in are currently being planned.

GCC "Death Star"
payload

A successful ARHAB group uses a variety of skills. These include: APRS (packet), DF, DX, GPS, TV receivers, transmitters and multiple antenna types; electronic and mechanical design and fabrication; digital design and programming; weather and flight path prediction; and many other STEM related activities.

It shall be a challenge for and utilize the ingenuity of this Board to provide the necessary resources towards realizing these goals in the form of:

• people with recognized expertise and skills;
• organizations with vested interest in exploring the solar system;
• a plan to establish and sustain existing and future facilities; and
• a means to provide a supplementary financial base in support of these endeavors.

ASCEND! (Aerospace STEM Challenges to Educate New Discoverers), is an Arizona Space Grant Consortium statewide workforce development program, involving undergraduate students from across Arizona in the full "design-build-fly-operate-analyze" cycle of a space mission.

ASU payload

Student teams from:

• Arizona State University
• Diné Community College
• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Glendale Community College
• Pima Community College Northwest Campus
• South Mountain Community College
• University of Arizona

U of A payload

design and build small payloads for launch from high altitude weather balloons. The payload instruments measure various atmospheric parameters as a function of altitude up to about 100,000 feet and some include cameras to photograph Earth throughout ascent and landing to characterize surface features, cloud structure and the Earth's curvature.

South Mountain payload

Participation in this program is geared to complement regular classroom learning by offering direct hands-on immersion with the full mission cycle. Few NASA or aerospace industry scientists and engineers ever take a project through the full mission cycle.