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Prof. Erick Agrimson
Professor Erick Agrimson, M.S., uses high-altitude weather balloons (HABs) as a delivery method to send up payload boxes with varied instrumentation to study the stratosphere. As a part of physics department at St. Catherine University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, his team of collaborative undergraduate researchers select HAB-related projects to work on. A current item of […]Read More »

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High Altitude Ballooning Team at St. Catherine University
The High Altitude Ballooning (HAB) Team at St. Catherine University is an all-women’s research team devoted to exploring the stratosphere through a multitude of experiments. This research has been conducted at St. Catherine University since 2009 and the collaborative undergraduate research is presented at conferences throughout the year. These experiments are conducted through weather balloon […]Read More »

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Competition Announcement: High-Power Rockets 2026-2027
Competition Announcement: Unique NASA Opportunity to Design, Build, and Launch High-Power Rockets The Minnesota Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC: www.mnspacegrant.org), working with the Tripoli, Minnesota, High-Power Rocketry Club (www.tripolimn.org), hereby announces the 2026-2027 Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition. The fly-off will be held in Minnesota, but this competition is open to college and university student teams […]Read More »

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