NASA Drop Tower Competition
for Student Teams
DIME

Dropping In a Microgravity Environment

Experiment DUE March 26, 2010

We were selected as a Tier II team and as one of 8 national finalists in the Aerospace category of the Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award

Reduced Gravity Proposal Video (right click to save)

We are using shape memory alloys for our linear relay!

 

 

Mass of the Tungsten disk = 407.0g
Thickness = 1.12cm, diameter = 4.50cm