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The Stanford Student Space Initiative (SSI) is a completely student-run organization founded in 2013 with the mission of giving future leaders of the space industry the hands-on experience and broader insight they need to realize the next era of space development.

SSI is the largest project-based group on campus. We’re the gathering place for people who want to act on their interests in space. Since 2013, we’ve flown a zero gravity experiment with NASA, helped build multiple CubeSats, inspired 60 teams in 20 countries to launch high altitude balloons, certified over 30 students for high powered rocketry, hosted over 100 speakers at talks and conferences, been featured in media like Popular Science, and helped our members intern and work at top aerospace companies and organizations.

Over the next year, our teams will launch a suite of rockets designed to test novel rocketry technologies and reprise our win at the Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Competition, launch Samwise, our first 2U satellite, test a Mars autonomous rover, develop self-guiding and returning balloons, and crystallize pharmaceuticals in microgravity.

We invite you to join us. Check out How to Join SSI for more information.