Our Plan for UH HASP

We are currently recruiting for the 2018 HASP team at the University of Houston. We are primarily searching for younger (sophomore and junior level) undergraduates in order to keep our chapter alive. Future participants will have the choice to explore deeper into what we have created under our SORA payload or develop, engineer, and fly their own ideas.

Where We're Going

In addition to developing SORA 2.0, the HASP team is working on several projects.

The first of which is a publication regarding the construction and execution of the radiation subsystem for the original SORA payload. The publication will describe the novel use of a Raspberry Pi to handle the MiniPIX and the methods used to analyze the flight data. This will be the first official publication from the UH HASP team.

The second project is one led by Dr. Lawrence Pinsky, a professor at the University of Houston, who works with NASA and the International Space Station to develop next-generation active radiation monitors. Dr. Pinsky and the UH HASP team discussed developing a portable, MiniPIX-based system capable of detecting thermal neutrons.