Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
Mentor 1
David Kaplan
Location
Union Wisconsin Room
Start Date
5-4-2019 1:30 PM
End Date
5-4-2019 3:30 PM
Description
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is a group of students from UW Milwaukee who are designing and building a payload that will be flown to space on a NASA sounding rocket as part of the RockSat-C 2019 program. The payload will test the shielding ability of materials during space flight. On the payload, there will be tubes of plasmids, along with sensors to record the radiation, temperature, and acceleration. Each tube of plasmid samples will be wrapped in a different shielding material, and will be flown with an unshielded control sample tube. Post-fight, the plasmids will be mixed with bacteria to evaluate the efficiency of gene transmission after space flight compared to control sample. The last two summers similar payloads were built to test the same effects of shielding on plasmid DNA. Unexpectedly, it was found that the gene transfer efficiency improved for the unshielded samples. This is the opposite of what was predicted, so this 2019 project will be used to further study why this occurs.
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
Union Wisconsin Room
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is a group of students from UW Milwaukee who are designing and building a payload that will be flown to space on a NASA sounding rocket as part of the RockSat-C 2019 program. The payload will test the shielding ability of materials during space flight. On the payload, there will be tubes of plasmids, along with sensors to record the radiation, temperature, and acceleration. Each tube of plasmid samples will be wrapped in a different shielding material, and will be flown with an unshielded control sample tube. Post-fight, the plasmids will be mixed with bacteria to evaluate the efficiency of gene transmission after space flight compared to control sample. The last two summers similar payloads were built to test the same effects of shielding on plasmid DNA. Unexpectedly, it was found that the gene transfer efficiency improved for the unshielded samples. This is the opposite of what was predicted, so this 2019 project will be used to further study why this occurs.
