Microgravity Program

Team Reports

2009 Team
rePosers — Repose Angles of Lunar Simulants

• TEDP (Test Equipment and Design Package)
• FInal Report
• Wisconsin Space grant Consortium Poster Presentation (Fritz), August 13, 2009.

Press:

• Space Cadets, Kenosha News, April 10, 2009
• Carthage Physics Students to Participate in NASA Experiment, Carthage College Current, March 11, 2009
• Weightless Wonder, Carthage College Web

2008 Team
Dust in the Wind — Inertial Filtration of Lunar Dust in Microgravity

• TEDP (Test Equipment and Design Package)
• Final Report
• Wisconsin Space Grant Proceedings Report on Experiment
• Wisconsin Space Grant Proceedings Report on Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Experiment
• Contributed Talks at the American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting 2008:
  • Structural Design for Experiment on Inertial Filtration in Lunar Gravity
  • Inertial Filtration in Lunar Gravity
• Contributed Talk at Sigma Pi Sigma 2008 Congress, Fermlab, Batavia, IL:
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics Model of a Cyclone Separator in Microgravity
• Contributed Talk at the Joint Annual Meeting of LEAG-ICEUM-SRR:
  • Proceedings: Inertial Filtration of Lunar Dust in Reduced Gravity
  • Talk Slides: Dust in the Wind: Lunar Dust Mitigation via Inertial Filtration

Press:

• Wisconsin Independent - Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU): http://www.waicu.org/upload/Independent/Ind_summer08.pdf
• Front page Article in Kenosha News, May 6, 2008
• Carthaginian (College Magazine), Summer 2008
• The Current (College Paper), April 15, 2008
• Chicago South Town Star
• Carthage Website: http://www.carthage.edu/external/news/596

About the Microgravity Program

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Flying High

This video was taken by Carthage Microgravity Team member Joe Monegato during a flight aboard NASA's Weightless Wonder. Read student reflections.

Weightless Wonder

Physics students fly high in NASA Microgravity Program.

Student Voices

What is it like to study physics at Carthage? Hear from physics students.