SPEX

From returning members- to new members, RIT SPEX is kicking off the fall semester strongly. Members were working hard over the summer to prepare for this big semester working on some exciting projects.

The SPEX team has finalized the list of fall projects. Learn about HAB 5, IREC 2019, Astrodynamics, Environmental Test Chamber, Rovers, and the project approval process!

This July has been an exciting month for observing planets in the sky, with the best still to come. Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth since 2003.

This past summer RIT Space Exploration participated in our first IREC. IREC is the intercollegiate rocket engineering competition and it is the largest event of its kind. RIT Space Exploration competed in one such category, the SDL payload challenge.

RIT Space Exploration was at Imagine RIT! Imagine RIT is a campus-wide event that showcases the innovative and creative spirit of RIT students, faculty and staff.

Today, April 22nd, 2018 at 10:24 A.M. RIT Space Exploration launched our fourth high altitude balloon, appropriately named HAB 4. The launch was well looked forward to by the HAB team.

Creating payloads for high altitude balloons (HAB), maintaining our telescopes, and satellite development is expensive and we need your help to continue to offer this invaluable service to students.

A CubeSat is type of satellite, commonly classified as a "smallsat" or "picosatellite". They provide an opportunity for smaller groups and student organizations to be able to afford to send their own mission into orbit.

So what is a high altitude balloon? A high altitude balloon, or HAB, is a very large latex balloon that depending on the size of the balloon and how much helium will take a small payload to around 100,000 feet or 30,000 meters in the atmosphere.

To put it simply, SPEX is a community of people who are passionate about space. We are students and faculty of all majors and fields of expertise united by our love of space exploration.