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Team Documents and Links Please download and read the following documents before conducting any high altitude ballooning operations. Our top priority is to maintain safe operations, which is obtainable through your sustained teamwork and communication.   All participants must read these documents: 1. FAR 101 – Federal Rules and Regulations for high altitude balloon operations […]

The North Dakota Space Consortium will hold its annual Near-Space Balloon Competition, a dual-balloon launch for middle and high school students November 17-18.  Read more about it here.

The fall semester Brown Bag Seminar Series features graduate students providing presentations on their current research or recent internships. This series of presentations will be held in the Space Studies Library at noon.  Please join us with your own “brown bag” lunch. Our next presentation in this series will feature Denise Buckner on Wednesday, November […]

2017 Near-Space Balloon Competition (NSBC)   Hey teams! Congratulations on reaching the next stage of your mission! We’re getting ready for integration night and launch day! Are you as excited as us? Here are some resources to help prepare for your trip to UND and Northern Cass School.   The most important document with NSBC […]

FREE MOVIE- see the total solar eclipse from NEAR SPACE! Please encourage your students to attend (and attend yourself!). This film highlights an important, year long, NASA sponsored project that UND’s Space Studies department participated in, and is relevant to a wide variety of disciplines, from fine arts to engineering. Who? YOU! What? Movie of the TOTAL SOLAR […]

Meet the UND Space Studies High Altitude Balloon Team Starting Lineup for Total Solar Eclipse 2017. Watch here.

The Space Studies ballooning team will broadcast the total eclipse of the Sun on Monday, August 21st.  Check out the UND Today article by Jan Bakken here.

New GRA Position – Balloon Program Coordinator Applications are now being accepted for the fall 2017 semester for a balloon program coordinator.  This position is a quarter time GRA. NDSGC may be able to fund up to 2 quarter-time GRAs.   Application deadline: July 26, 2017 at 5:00 pm   Click here to view the application procedures […]

On Dec. 2-3, ND Space Grant held their sixth-annual Near-Space Balloon Competition (NSBC) a statewide engineering design project for North Dakota middle and high school students. There were 11 teams representing 7 towns this year, with over 70 students, teachers, and chaperones visiting UND. This was a record turnout made possible only with support from […]