2020-09-04: Student ThinSat Research Summer Camp for Hampton Roads High School Students
The Student ThinSat Research Summer (STRS) Camp was held virtually from August 3 – August 14, 2020. The event was sponsored by a Virginia Space Grant Consortium Innovate Program grant with faculty and student instructors from Computer Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Old Dominion University. STRS 2020 - Flyer The STRS camp focused on providing opportunities for integration of coding skills with engineering Standards of Learning for students in a project-based learning environment using ThinSat . The Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (Virginia Space) , as a part of their commitment to K- 12 STEM outreach, has initiated a program called ThinSat, inserting batches of approximately 60 picosatellites into extremely low Earth orbits up to twice a year. ThinSats are launched utilizing the second stage orbit insertion capabilities of their Antares launch system as part o...