The Press Release below is reprinted from the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS). See the original Release at the CASIS website. NASA’s International Space Station website has also run a featured article based on the press release. Read at NASA: Student Experiments Take Flight on Cygnus Cargo Craft MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, […]
Capture of the Cygnus spacecraft by the International Space Station remote arm occurred at 7:00 am ET today. The spacecraft is set to berth with Station at 9:15 am ET today. A NASA press conference will take place at 1 pm ET. You can watch all of it live via the NASA TV portal below. […]
A software problem was identified this morning at approximately 1:30 am EDT when Cygnus established direct contact with the International Space Station. Orbital Sciences has identified the problem and is working on a fix. Due to the relative orbits of Cygnus and ISS, the next alignment for capture is in 2 days on Tuesday, September […]
Capture and Docking of Cygnus with ISS from Analytical Graphics, Inc. on Vimeo. The capture of the Cygnus vehicle, which contains the SSEP Falcon I payload of experiments, and berthing with the International Space Station is expected around 7:25 am EDT. NASA live coverage begins 4:30 am EDT. You can watch it right here. NASA […]
Ok, I know you’ve been perplexed, and hanging out on the edge of your seat for the last week. And to all the students, particularly in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, that left comments, hey they were really great guesses! You’ve been patiently waiting for me to read my bathroom scale on top of my 260 mile […]
At 10:58 am ET yesterday we watched the successful launch of Orb-D1 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wallops Island, Virginia. SSEP delegations from Russell County, Virginia; Howard County, Maryland; San Marino, California; and NCESSE were on hand. Aboard the Cygnus spacecraft is the Falcon I payload of student experiments for SSEP Mission 3 to […]
As this post is being published, we are now at T minus 1 Day, 2 Hours, 10 minutes from liftoff. The Mission 3 to ISS clock at right is ticking down to the currently scheduled launch of the Orbital Sciences Antares rocket on Wednesday, September 18 (see the NASA Consolidate Launch Schedule) – the mission: Orb-D1. Antares […]
I’ve heard a lot about this weightlessness stuff, with astronauts having a great time floating around. So I wanted to find out first hand what’s going on up there. Since they don’t have a spare seat on the next flight to low Earth orbit (at least not yet), I looked far and wide to find […]
The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S., and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic partnership with NanoRacks LLC, working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the […]
After a summer away, welcome back! The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, and NanoRacks would like to welcome back from summer break all SSEP participating student researchers, teachers, communities leaders, National Partners, and Local Partners. We would also like to welcome the 15 communities […]
NCESSE News
- New Flight Opportunity for School Districts and Colleges: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 21 to the International Space Station, Starting September 2, 2025
- New Flight Opportunity for School Districts: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 19 to the International Space Station, Starting September 2024
- New STEM Opportunity – Permanently Install a Voyage Scale Model of the Solar System in Your Community as a Focal Point for STEM Education
- WATCH LIVE: Flight of SSEP Mission 14 ‘Apollo’, Launching on SpaceX CRS-21, Saturday, December 5, 2020, 11:39 am ET
- WATCH HISTORY LIVE TODAY – Launch of Astronauts on SpaceX Demo-2 Mission 3:22 pm ET, May 30, 2020