Student Flight and Design Projects

Each year funding is available to support student-led, faculty-mentored flight and design projects. Previous projects include:

Rocketry

Virginia Space Grant Consortium supports a number of rocketry-based programs including the RockOn! workshop, the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition, Midwest Rocketry, RockSat teams and numerous other workshops and programs related to rocketry.

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Small Satellites

The Virginia CubeSat Constellation (VCC) mission is a joint collaboration of science and engineering students from Hampton University, Old Dominion University (ODU), University of Virginia (UVA), and Virginia Tech (VT), sponsored by the Virginia Space Grant Consortium and NASA. The mission involves the construction and completion of three 1U CubeSats, all independently designed, tested, and validated by the universities students. Visit the Virginia CubeSat Constellation website.