Science, Technology and Systems Engineering Educational Activities with Stratospheric Balloons

• Autorzy: Marcuccio Salvo , Gemignani Matteo , Cataldi Giuseppe

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DOI

10.2478/tar-2022-0020

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

In 2021, the Space Systems Laboratory of the University of Pisa (UniPi) started a student-oriented high-altitude ballooning programme intended to provide an opportunity for hands-on experience in support of the teaching of scientific and technical courses. The programme provides mentoring on scientific, technical and management issues, along with financial support and assistance with integration and launch on a sounding balloon platform. The goal is to conduct flying experiments in the stratosphere, retrieve them after landing and process the results; by doing so, the students experience all phases of a scientific mission project, from conceptual design to realisation, operations and post-flight analysis. Following a call for proposal open to all students of the UniPi across all study areas, three experiments were selected featuring multidisciplinary teams. This paper summarises the features of the programme’s first edition and presents the main lessons learned.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

high-altitude ballooning; stratospheric platform; student experiment; sounding balloon

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwa Naukowe Sieci Badawczej Łukasiewicz - Instytutu Lotnictwa
• Czasopismo: Transactions on Aerospace Research
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: Nr 4 (269)
• Strony: 18--27
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 7 poz., fot., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Marcuccio Salvo

• Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Università di Pisa, Via G. Caruso 8, Pisa 56122, Italy

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6490-8593

autor

Gemignani Matteo

• Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Università di Pisa, Via G. Caruso 8, Pisa 56122, Italy

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4603-6717

autor

Cataldi Giuseppe

• Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Università di Pisa, Via G. Caruso 8, Pisa 56122, Italy

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7782-5356

Bibliografia

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023).