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NewportFILM Starman showing

Jul 31, 2025 | News

We are thrilled to be a community partner for the newportFILM showing of Starman, a documentary about NASA engineer and science fiction author, Gentry Lee. Details: Thursday, August 21st at the Rosecliff Lawn in Newport. Venue opens at 5pm Film begins at 7:50pm For...

2025 Spring Symposium

May 22, 2025 | News, News and Awards

The Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium was thrilled to host a very successful Spring Symposium at the Museum of Natural History and Planetarium on Saturday, April 26th. With over 20 posters and 18 talks, our awardees presented RI Space Grant funded research on a...

A NASA space grant is helping students learn about Rhode Island’s infamous history of trash

Jun 5, 2024 | News

View the full story from the Boston Globe. On a field trip supported by the RI NASA Space Grant, Barrington High School students visited the Blackstone River to learn about Rhode Island’s history of pollution. “We want to get students outside the classroom...

Satellite built by Brown students and launched by SpaceX shows a low-cost way to reduce space junk

Apr 18, 2023 | News, News and Awards

Read the full story on Brown News. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Common sense suggests that space missions can only happen with multimillion-dollar budgets, materials built to withstand the unforgiving conditions beyond Earth’s atmosphere, and as a result of...

Fashioned from AA batteries: Brown students launch satellite on Elon Musk’s rocket

Apr 18, 2023 | News

View the original story from the Providence Journal. Brown University students, with a low-cost satellite, are blasting off on a budget. It’s called SBUDNIC, not to be confused with Sputnik, the Soviet satellite that launched in the 1950s. This one is much smaller,...

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