Stanford Student Space Initiative (SSI): Difference between revisions

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SSI Teams
Rockets	Satellites	Balloons	Operations	Policy	Biology	Mars

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.

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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, built multiple CubeSats, inspired 60 teams in 20 countries to launch high altitude balloons, certified 25 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.
+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 send one of the first civilian university-built rockets to space, launch two satellites, send a [[:Category:High Altitude Balloons | high altitude balloon]] across the country, develop a space-based [[Optical Communications | optical communications]] system, teach a space policy class, organize speaker events and workshops with industry leaders, and host our second annual conference.
+Over the next year, our teams will launch a suite of rockets designed to test novel [[Rockets|rocketry]] technologies and reprise our win at the [[Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Competition]], launch [[Satellites|Samwise]], our first 2U satellite, test a [[Mars]] autonomous rover, develop self-guiding and returning [[balloons]], and crystallize pharmaceuticals in [[Mars|microgravity]].
 We invite you to join us.
+[[Category:Stanford Space Initiative| ]]