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STEDI The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) was established more than 25 years ago by the National Academy of Sciences to support NASA in efforts such as the Student Explorer Demonstration Initiative STEDI program. USRA was chartered to provide a means by which universities and other research organizations may cooperate with one another, with the government of the United States, and with other organizations, toward the development of knowledge associated with space science and technology. USRA was vested in a university membership, initially forty-eight and now seventy-eight institutions, that oversees all activities, thus inherently ensuring to the government that activities undertaken serve to benefit the broad community and not any particular institution. The goals of the STEDI program are: To conduct a significant space-flight scientific experiment; to demonstrate the feasibility of doing so in University settings at low cost, and to do so with meaningful student involvement. The three missions of the STEDI program are SNOE, Boston University's TERRIERS project, and the University of New Hampshire's CATSAT project. NASA has procurede launch services to support SNOE under the Ultralite Expendable Launch Services Program. NASA will use the Pegasus XL launch vehicle, supplied by Orbital. |
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