Laufer Sounding Rocket NRW 3683

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Laufer Sounding Rocket (NRW 3683)

• This project is supports NASA education goals
  to inspire the next generation of explorers. As
  such, the University of Virginia, represented by
  Prof. Gabriel Laufer, is the immediate customer.
  Prof. Laufer is supported by NASAs funding to
  the Goddard Sounding Rocket Program.

• As an educational outreach activity, NRW 3683
  will enable students to experience design,
  development, and testing of sounding rockets and
  science payloads.
• The science objective is to demonstrate a new
  gas filter correlation radiometer by measuring
  the distribution of Chlorophyll in the
  stratosphere. This instrument and a high
  sensitivity video camera will be used to measure
  and image the distribution of chlorophyll in
  Metompkin Inlet.

Ocean Chlorophyll

• Primary contracted support is from the NASA
  Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC).
  NSROC is assisting students in developing the
  payload and the vehicle systems.
• Contract services are also being used to
  recover the payload in a water recovery.
• The overall budget for the project is under
  100K.

• Project Initiation and Requirements
  Definition 3/2002
• Design Review 9/2002
• Mission Readiness Review 5/2003
• Range Readiness Review 5/2003
• Launch Window 6/09/2003
  6/16/2003