Special SEDS Projects

This page highlights various projects that SEDS-USA or individual SEDS chapters are undertaking:

SEDS Endowment Fund

Help out SEDS by contributing to the Endowment Fund! The money will help to fund the SEDS annual scholarship, the NOVA newsletter, educational outreach, and much more.

SEDSAT-1

This satellite, developed by the University of Alabama in Huntsville SEDS chapter, was successfully built and launched. It has multiple uses, such as multi-spectral remote sensing and amateur radio store-and-forward capabilities.

GAMCIT

Caltech's SEDS chapter flew the Gamma-ray Astrophysics Mission (GAMCIT) on the Space Shuttle in May of 1996 as part of NASA's get-away-special program. It worked superbly and even recorded a gamma-ray burst.

Microgravity Nanotubes

For the past several years, University of Michigan's SEDS chapter has flown several experiments on NASA's Reduced Gravity Trainer, the KC-135 (also known as the "Vomit Comet"). This year, a team explores the formation of nanotubes in microgravity.