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    MSS Provides Flight to New Mexico Student Team

    colinake on 2/19/2010 at 10:34 am — Front Page News Press Releases —

    Boulder, Colorado – February 18, 2010 – Masten Space Systems announced that it is offering the winner of the Next-generation Suborbital Research Conference 2010 Student Suborbital Experiment Competition a free zero gravity flight. The winning proposal was New Mexico State University’s “Experimental Validation of a Robotics-Based Inertial Property Identification Algorithm for Orbiting Spacecraft.”

    The flight will take place on one of the company’s new high altitude vehicles slated for flights later this year. These flights can give payloads several minutes of zero gravity critical to developing the new technologies that will lower the cost of exploring space. “It’s partnerships between motivated and creative students like these and low cost launch providers like us that will make the future of space flight look nothing like what has come before. Our goal is to open up suborbital flights like this to any university or high school team in the world at a price that is well within their budget,” said David Masten, CEO.

    The second and third place winners were the University of Colorado at Boulder’s “Suborbital Flight Testing of a Deployable Reflector” and Colorado State University’s “Fiber-Optic Mass Gauging System for Measuring Liquid Levels in a Reduced Gravity Environment”. The competition was part of the first annual Next-generation Suborbital Research Conference held in Boulder, Colorado this week. The conference’s goal is to bring researchers from government, industry, and academia together with new suborbital launch providers and help the two communities discover their requirements and capabilities.

    About Masten Space Systems
    Masten Space Systems is a Mojave, CA based aerospace company developing fully reusable vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) launch vehicles, rocket-related products, and engineering services. The company’s 6000 square foot production facility and 200,000 square foot testing facility is located on the Mojave Air and Space Port. The company designs and builds aerospace solutions that focus on durability, long operational lifetimes, and minimal per-flight maintenance. For more information on the company see http://masten-space.com