The Colorado Space Grant Consortium enhances classroom education by enabling students to do hands-on work designing, developing, building, and testing space hardware payloads and spacecraft for flight on rockets, high altitude balloons, the Space Shuttle, and small Low Earth Orbiting Satellites.

COSGC students have flown three successful rocket missions, numerous high altitude balloon missions, three shuttle payloads, and two small satellites.  COSGC applies a staged approach to student space hardware opportunities, starting with balloon payloads. Students then follow up successful balloon payloads with rocket payloads and move on, ultimately to low earth orbiting small satellites.

High Altitude Science Platform ― CU students will fly a payload on this platform, which is designed to determine the viability of high-altitude observatories through diurnal and nocturnal imaging of celestial bodies to measure the effects of atmospheric turbulence and light intensity due to residuals in the atmosphere. >>More

Colorado CubeSat― Hermes is the first CubeSat under construction at the COSGC headquarters at CU-Boulder and may be the starting point for an extended program of CubeSats. The project is designed to improve CubeSat communications through the on-orbit testing of a high data-rate communication system that will allow the downlink of large quantities of data, making CubeSat imaging or high-data quantity science easily feasible. >>More

Drag and Atmospheric Neutral Density Explorer ― DANDE will be a low-cost density, wind, and composition-measuring satellite that will provide data for the calibration and validation of operational models and improve our understanding of the thermosphere. >>More